Sr. Consultant - System Analyst - Ivantage | Allstate Solutions Private Limited

Company: Allstate Insurance Company

About Company:
The Systems Analyst – Ivantage provides technical assistance from project inception through rollout, creating high-level technical requirements and designs to develop and support optimal IT solutions by applying knowledge of business processes and systems architecture. The Systems Analyst engages with business partners, technology stakeholders, technology vendors in ideation & solution creation.
The Systems Analyst (SA) creates high-level technical designs for high complexity projects and maintenance efforts by analyzing requirements and systems architecture, consulting with technology partners and validating tool standards. The SA reviews and evaluates mitigation efforts for design constraints and/or risks and leads design reviews to develop and support optimal IT solutions.

Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India


Job Responsibilities
Creates the high-level technical design for one or more complex projects and difficult maintenance efforts by analyzing and tracing designs to requirements (business and functional) and systems architecture
Responsible for creation of roadmaps, leading design reviews, and performing analysis for one or more applications
Identifies systems and technical constraints, potential technology risks, and document possible mitigation strategies for high complexity projects
Ability to engage with business partners, technology stakeholders, technology vendors in ideation & solution creation;
Be able to communicate technical information clearly between diverse groups of technical and non-technical individuals;
Consults with Business Analysts to write functional design for high complexity projects
Manages design reviews, application design impacts between concurrent releases, and technical walkthroughs
Understands the technical details, integration, and functions of multiple applications, hardware, and/or software within a team. Executes and enforces best practices. May be responsible to identify and design for non-functional requirements
Provides technical input and act as point-of-contact during architectural assessments for area applications
For high complexity projects, validate code to designs and requirements. Manages code walkthroughs, inspections, and review
Monitors the technical progress of the project
Assists with detailed project estimating and milestone planning.  Reviews and validates accuracy of others’ estimates. Track the critical path across project teams and communicate the technical progress of the project
Recommends technology solutions to meet business requirements. Partner with Business Analysts and business clients to improve business requirements and business process flows
Internally communicates changes or issues with vended products
Evaluates Proof of Concepts (POCs) and validate that code delivers design intent
Plans, conducts, and reviews module and integration testing for high complexity projects.  Analyze, validate, and consult on the content of functional test conditions for high complexity applications, projects, etc.
Ensures technical issues are resolved
Evaluates root cause of issues and the resolutions
Manages the scope and change control process and provide direction for area of expertise.  Manage and document issue resolution. Facilitate the change analysis for design, code, and other artifacts
Coordinates various technology organization groups around required operations, environment, and desktop documentation. Manages development of the documentation
Implements technical process improvements. Manages technical process and application process flows
Recommends technology solutions to meet business requirements. Maintains understanding of software industry and provide direction for future solutions

 Job Qualifications
Education: Bachelors/Master’s degree in Engineering.(CS/IS/EC preferably)
Experience: 3-5 years of experience in IT industry.
Experience with the US Insurance Industry mandatory. Knowledge of Brokerage business is a plus. INS certification would be preferred.
3-5 years of experience designing and building ETL solutions.(Abinitio or other ETL Tool)
3 years of experience with Oracle SQL and PL/SQL.
3 years of experience with UNIX, including Perl or other shell scripting languages.
Ability to engage with business partners, technology stakeholders, technology vendors in ideation & solution creation
Good communication skills - Be able to communicate technical information clearly between diverse groups of technical and non-technical individuals;
Have a good understanding of the change management process.
Analytical, problem solving and decision making skills
Experience working with globally distributed scrum teams and global delivery models.
Experience with systems integration design and development
Requires strong time management skills
Ability to mentor junior teammates
Experience with Hadoop and/or Big Data a plus
Agile/Scrum certifications a plus.

Contact Mail: aspl@allstate.com

For more details Visit: https://careers.allstate.com/go/Allstate-Solutions-Private-Limited/3789100/