sr. business analyst - commercial insurance.

Our client, is seeking an expert-level Sr. Business Analyst - Commercial Insurance to lead the strategic configuration and optimization of their core policy systems.

In this highly specialized, senior advisory role, you will act as the principal functional architect bridging the gap between macro corporate strategy and modern technology systems. Your mandate is to analyze complex commercial insurance underwriting processes, identify digital modernization opportunities, and translate sophisticated business model strategies into scalable software solutions. You will collaborate closely with executive stakeholders, system architects, and core engineering teams to design and implement policy, rating, and form structures on the Duck Creek platform, driving immense business value across a national portfolio.

Duration: 10-Month Contract

Work Arrangement: 100% Remote (Must be based within Canada)

Advantages
100% Remote Flexibility: Enjoy absolute physical autonomy working from anywhere across Canada, backed by enterprise-grade digital collaboration tools.

Elite Strategic Ownership: Influence macro business model strategy and technology integrations for an industry-leading insurance portfolio.

Advanced InsurTech Sandbox: Deepen your technical profile by managing core, highly complex configurations across the comprehensive Duck Creek lifecycle suite.

Long-Term Enterprise Mandate: Secure a stable 10-month contract assignment with high-visibility, professional accountability, and collaborative team synergy.

Responsibilities
Strategic Consultation & Requirement Architecture
Business Model Strategy: Analyze, optimize, and innovate complex current-state commercial insurance workflows, mapping out progressive future-state business capabilities.

Fit-Gap Engineering: Conduct comprehensive fit-gap analysis matching unique commercial product requirements against native Duck Creek platform capabilities to recommend optimal technical solution designs.

Functional Artifact Design: Translate abstract business rules into high-fidelity functional specifications, user stories, and structural design documents covering policy life cycles, complex rating, and forms implementation.

Stakeholder Alignment: Lead requirement discovery workshops, walk-through sessions, and steering committee presentations to secure formal stakeholder sign-offs.

Platform Configuration Support & Quality Governance
Duck Creek Solution Delivery: Partner with engineering squads to guide and support detailed product configuration activities inside Duck Creek Author, Product Studio, Rating, and Forms (Manuscripts).

UAT & Validation Leadership: Lead requirement validation activities and orchestrate User Acceptance Testing (UAT) phases, actively driving technical defect triage and production resolution.

Cross-Team Integration: Collaborate across distributed program teams to ensure unified data flows, support high-stakes project choices, and provide strategic technical research.

Professional Mentorship: Mentor intermediate analysts and promote industry best practices to continuously elevate software delivery consistency and system quality.

Qualifications
Commercial Insurance Expertise: 15+ years of deep, progressive professional experience within the Commercial Insurance domain, demonstrating expert-level knowledge of commercial workflows and underwriting logic.

Insurance Solutions Blueprinting: 15+ years of referenceable experience architecting end-to-end technological Insurance Solutions within large corporate environments.

Business Model Strategy: 10+ years of proven experience formulating, evaluating, and implementing high-level corporate Business Model Strategies to modernize operations.

Duck Creek Technical Depth: 3 to 5 years of direct hands-on experience working with Duck Creek Insurance Products, specifically showing operational familiarity with Duck Creek Policy Administration (Core), Author, Product Studio, Rating, and Forms/Manuscripts.

Education: Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, Finance, Actuarial Science, or a related quantitative discipline.

Soft Skills: Elite verbal and written communication, storytelling, and facilitation skills. A highly analytical self-starter with the political acumen required to influence senior executives, build organizational consensus, and clarify complex technical logic.

Summary
If you are a veteran Sr. Business Analyst who pairs an absolute command of Commercial Insurance and business model strategy with the deep technical precision required to configure Duck Creek policy ecosystems, this 10-month remote contract is a premier career platform. Bring your platform-matching expertise, functional design mastery, and collaborative leadership drive to our industry-defining transformation team today!

Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.

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