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Lead Systems Analyst
Allstate
Roanoke, VA, United States
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Think that working in the insurance field can’t be exciting, rewarding and challenging? Think again. You’ll help us reinvent protection and retirement to improve customers’ lives. We’ll help you make an impact with our training and mentoring offerings. Here, you’ll have the opportunity to expand and apply your skills in ways you never thought possible. And you’ll have fun doing it. Join a company of individuals with hopes, plans and passions, all using and developing our talents for good, at work and in life.
Job Description
Allstate Brand Operations is one of several business areas within Allstate Insurance Company. The vision of ABO is to deliver an effortless experience by empowering our people, simplifying our processes and integrating new technologies. Policy Administration is a department that falls under ABO that is responsible for all back-office handling of polices that error out due to system limitations. This role is being filled to assist with the identification of and automation recommendations around these policy exceptions.
The Systems Analyst (SA) Lead Consultant creates high-level technical design for high complexity projects and maintenance efforts by analyzing requirements and systems architecture, consulting with technology partners and validating tool standards. The SA Lead Consultant reviews and evaluates mitigation efforts for design constraints and/or risks and leads design reviews to develop and support optimal IT solutions.
Key Responsibilities
• 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
• 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
• For high complexity projects, validate code to designs and requirements. Manages code walkthroughs, inspections, and review
• Recommends technology solutions to meet business requirements. Partner with Business Analysts and possibly clients to improve business requirements and business process flows
• Evaluates Proof of Concepts (POCs) and validate that code delivers design intent
• Evaluates root cause of issues and the resolutions
• Coordinates various technology organization groups around required operations, environment, and desktop documentation. Manages development of the documentation
Job Qualifications
Required:
• College degree with technical study or equivalent experience of 4-6 years of systems experience
• Analytical thinking – analyzing information to address work related problems and issues quickly
• Systems analysis – determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes
• Ability to lead, follow and collaborate with diverse individuals and teams
• Adaptability and flexibility – job requires being open to change
• Stress tolerance- adaptability and professionalism in high pressure situations
• Active learning – understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision making
• Excellent communication skills – able to effectively convey technical information, and/or persuade others both verbally and in writing, to a wide-ranging audience
• Complex problem solving – identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions
• Judgement and decision making –consider the relative costs and benefits of potential actions
• Dependability – job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable and fulfilling obligations
• Integrity – job requires being honest and ethical
Preferred
• Negotiation – bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences
• Agile Software development knowledge –preferred Agile software experience
• Knowledge of computer software/systems – internal and external applications and programming to include but not limited to business objects, SharePoint site development/maintenance, report creation
The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation, which includes a drug screen.
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