Position: Lead Business Analyst (French)
Company: EPAM Systems
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

DESCRIPTION
Our client is the technology innovator for insurance. Its digital insurance platform is built to move carriers closer to their customers. Cloud-enabled and mobile-ready, the unified platform of core, experience and insight solutions empowers insurers to digitize core insurance operations, create the essential data foundation and deliver easier-than-easy experiences that attract a new generation of customers.

Currently, we are looking for an experienced French speaking Business Analyst for the new client/project located in Canada/Quebec.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Work with distributed team onshore/offshore, onsite with the client
Design/discovery phases, eliciting requirements, analysis into the current state of systems/business processes, solution design/analysis, help drive client and team towards defining requirements and conceptual solution, summarize and present results, etc
Support of development phases/UAT: user story creation, coordinate between onshore/offshore, scope tracking and requirements management, etc
REQUIREMENTS
4+ years of Business Analysis experience
Commercial work experience as a BA in IT or related domains
Knowledge of BA technics: Elicitation techniques, knowledge of business requirements development phases, requirements specification and management, business processes description and modelling, business and logical models design and prototyping, data analysis, system analysis
Strong knowledge of BA tools: diagrams and modelling (UML tools, Visio, anything else), UI prototyping (Balsamiq Mockups etc.), tracking tools (JIRA etc.), markup languages and widely used data formats (XML, XML based etc.)
Technical background, willing to work with new technologies
Familiarity with Agile Software Engineering Process Lifecycle and its relationship to Business Analysis processes
Good understanding of main Software Engineering and Architecture principles
Strong knowledge of general purpose and specialized software applications to support Business Analysis processes
Logical and structural thinking, ability to be step ahead mentally and predict potential consequences
Leadership and proactivity
Ability to take responsibility and show ownership
Ability to learn quickly, ability to research the information and to use new information 'on the fly'
Experience of daily communication with the client
Excellent communication and presentation skills
Advanced level French level, both spoken and written (C1)
Upper-intermediate or higher English level, both spoken and written (B2+)
NICE TO HAVE
Insurance business domain knowledge and experience (possesses knowledge of insurance business principles and practices, industry, organization and solution, i.e. agency licensing, billing, claims, commissions, finance, product/policy, operations, rating or underwriting,, with background either as an analyst/technology employee of an insurance company or as a consultant providing services to insurance companies)
Experience of object, process or data modeling as well as basic knowledge of SQL is a strong plus
Experience of object-oriented application development or database programming experience is a plus
Able for possible slight time shift because of Europe offshore team main location/ Canada customer main location