Unum UK

IT Business Analyst II – Harmony Colonial Life Products

Unum UK

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: ColumbiaMaineSouth CarolinaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $73,300 - $150,500 per year

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About the role

  • Work closely with a Product Owner, Scrum team, and business partners to turn business needs into clear, actionable user stories and requirements
  • Help ensure the team has a well‑prepared backlog, support sprint planning and refinement sessions, and assist with demos and solution validation
  • Maintain a holistic understanding of the IT Delivery roadmap and ensure changes are accurately reflected in backlog tools to support automated roadmaps, reporting, and metrics
  • Ensure product and adoption KPIs can be effectively measured within development and delivery activities by identifying needed data points early in the agile process
  • Maintain a clear understanding of client personas and use them to refine work items and ensure alignment with customer needs
  • Ensure integrity of work items as they are decomposed and refined across the backlog hierarchy, identifying gaps, descoping risks, or needs for additional requirement gathering
  • Ensure key information needed for Product Owner prioritization is current, accurate, and available in usable formats
  • Ensure functional and non-functional requirements are clearly represented and documented in the product backlog
  • Ensure backlog items meet the Definition of Ready/Done and align with enterprise planning horizons, maintaining high content quality and data integrity
  • Identify, gather, and analyze data from relevant sources to support processes impacted by new solutions
  • Select and use the most effective techniques and tools (e.g., BlueWorks for process mapping, Excel) to represent and trace business requirements
  • Model best practices aligned with product-area methodologies (e.g., Customer Journey, Agile, Program Execution Framework)
  • Continuously improve and expand tools and practices within the Business Analysis discipline
  • Mentor peers on business analysis best practices, tools, and emerging market or technology trends
  • Conduct industry research and apply insights to business context and solution design
  • Ensure documentation and change controls are in place for production deployments and transition to production support teams
  • Elicit requirements using appropriate techniques (personas, user stories, story maps) and partner with Product Owners to create and elaborate backlog items with clear acceptance criteria
  • Collaborate with Product Owners to groom and prioritize backlog items
  • Lead the creation of concise, effective user stories and ensure acceptance criteria clearly reflect stakeholder intent
  • Define detailed design and acceptance criteria for user stories on a just‑in‑time basis
  • Review acceptance criteria with engineers and testers to ensure clarity, testability, and alignment with automated testing practices
  • Coordinate or support acceptance testing with business partners and the agile team
  • Lead story decomposition and process mapping to ensure the right level of detail for planning
  • Collaborate with the agile team, Scrum Master, and Product Owner during planning to agree on sprint deliverables
  • Maintain detailed knowledge of assigned business processes and suggest improvements
  • Gather requirements related to personas and user experiences; support information architecture and partner with UX to ensure an excellent user experience
  • Evaluate native capabilities of third‑party or cloud solutions; configure layouts, workflows, reporting, and dashboards when applicable
  • Support internal test execution, including documentation, defect tracking, and troubleshooting
  • Collaborate with architects, engineers, and testers to ensure delivered features meet or exceed Product Owner expectations; contribute to solution design discussions
  • Maintain accurate, up‑to‑date information in ALM tools and communicate progress, plans, and impediments during daily stand-ups

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree preferred, or equivalent experience
  • 4+ years’ experience working on an agile team
  • Strong analytical, logical, and critical thinking skills with high attention to detail
  • Passion for business goals, customer experience, and operational outcomes
  • Experience with Agile development methodologies
  • Strong oral and written communication skills, with the ability to document and communicate requirements clearly
  • Strong team collaboration skills with the ability to work across diverse groups
  • Ability to solve complex business problems while driving customer and operational value
  • Innovative, self‑motivated, and results‑oriented
  • IIBA certifications a plus
Benefits
  • healthcare benefits (health, vision, dental)
  • insurance benefits (short & long-term disability)
  • performance-based incentive plans
  • paid time off
  • 401(k) retirement plan with an employer match up to 5% and an additional 4.5% contribution whether you contribute to the plan or not
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
Agile development methodologiesBusiness analysisUser storiesRequirements gatheringProcess mappingAcceptance criteriaData analysisDocumentationDefect trackingInformation architecture
Soft Skills
Analytical skillsCritical thinkingAttention to detailCommunication skillsTeam collaborationProblem-solvingInnovativeSelf-motivatedResults-orientedCustomer experience focus
Certifications
Bachelor's degreeIIBA certifications