Senior Business Analyst - Life Insurance Underwriting

Date Posted: 08/07/2026

Hiring Organization: Rose International

Position Number: 505394

Industry: Insurance

Job Title: Senior Business Analyst - Life Insurance Underwriting

Job Location: Boston, MA, USA, 02210

Work Model: Hybrid

Work Model Details: Hybrid, onsite 3 days a week

Shift: 9 Am - 5 PM

Employment Type: Temporary

FT/PT: Full-Time

Estimated Duration (In months): 4

Min Hourly Rate($): 60.00

Max Hourly Rate($): 68.00

Must Have Skills/Attributes: Agile, Documentation, Underwriting, Waterfall

Experience Desired: Underwriting Systems / Insurance Underwriting Experience (5+ yrs); Business Analysis & Requirements Documentation (7+ yrs); Insurance Platform Modernization (5+ yrs); UAT, Configuration, Testing & Deployment (5+ yrs); Agile & Waterfall Methodologies (5+ yrs)

Required Minimum Education: Bachelor's Degree

**C2C is not available**

Job Description
Required Education:
Bachelor's degree

Required Qualifications/Skills/Experience:
7+ years of experience supporting projects and driving execution of complex technical work
Business Analyst experience supporting underwriting systems
Experience with insurance underwriting platforms
Understanding of Waterfall and Agile processes and documentation
Strong business and technical requirements documentation skills
Ability to drill down from the big picture to detailed processes
Ability to think strategically
Ability to collaborate across diverse teams and organizations
Strong business analysis skills
Strong understanding of underwriting systems
Strong process analysis skills
Ability to work in a dynamic, matrixed organization
Ability to bring together perspectives across teams and capture end-to-end requirements
Ability to support business sign-off and implementation

Preferred Qualifications/Skills/Experience:
Life underwriting knowledge
Experience solving complex problems and improving team processes
Exposure to customer experience and user experience practices
Proven ability to partner with cross-functional teams to design, configure, test, and deploy solutions
Demonstrated ability to adapt to changing business priorities
Experience with JIRA and Confluence
Strong problem-solving skills
Experience with customer and user experience practices
Experience with cross-functional collaboration
Experience with configuration, testing, and deployment

Senior Business Analyst - Life Insurance Underwriting Overview:
The Business Analyst will support projects, applications, and technologies within Protection New Business and Underwriting, with a focus on platform modernization
This role will translate business needs into detailed requirements for processes and technology that support customer and employee experiences
Responsibilities include gathering, synthesizing, and documenting business requirements, technical specifications, rules configurations, process flows, and UAT requirements
The Business Analyst will work as a liaison between Underwriting and other teams, advocating for necessary changes and translating customer and employee needs into actionable solutions aligned with business outcomes
The role requires the ability to understand system and application interconnectivity, support product roadmaps and prioritization, and maintain strong relationships with technical and architecture teams
The successful candidate will work independently on highly visible and complex products and projects within a dynamic, matrixed organization
Strong collaboration, strategic thinking, process analysis, and requirements documentation skills are essential, along with the ability to support change management, launch readiness, continuous improvement, and implementation activities

Job Duties:
Serve as a Business Analyst for projects, applications, and technologies supporting Protection New Business and Underwriting
Support the overall Underwriting organization with a focus on platform modernization
Gather, synthesize, and document business requirements, rules configurations, and UAT testing requirements
Document business requirements with detailed technical specifications
Understand process flows and ensure interconnectivity of systems and applications
Act as a liaison between Underwriting and other teams and advocate for necessary changes
Translate customer and employee needs into documented, actionable solutions with clear measurement mechanisms supporting business outcomes
Provide appropriate documentation for the Product team to prioritize features and enhancements against a prioritization framework
Support Business Owners, Product Managers, and peers in aligning requirements to roadmaps
Identify opportunities to improve business processes by maintaining knowledge of available and upcoming features delivered by external vendors
Update procedures and processes as changes are implemented
Ensure development outputs meet business expectations through strong cross-functional relationships with technical and architecture teams
Apply change management principles when establishing launch readiness for system and process updates
Work independently and with management on highly visible, divisional, and cross-divisional complex products and projects
Serve as a key resource for documenting unique or complex business problems
Drive continuous improvement and efficiencies beyond the scope of assigned responsibilities

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• **Only those lawfully authorized to work in the designated country associated with the position will be considered.**

• **Please note that all Position start dates and duration are estimates and may be reduced or lengthened based upon a client's business needs and requirements.**

Benefits:
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Rose International is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender (expression or identity), national origin, arrest and conviction records, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Positions located in San Francisco and Los Angeles, California will be administered in accordance with their respective Fair Chance Ordinances.

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