Senior Technical Solutions Analyst

4 weeks ago


West Des Moines, United States Homesteaders Life Company Corp Full time
Job DescriptionJob DescriptionDescription:

As a Senior Technical Solutions Analyst, you will be responsible for bridging the gap between business needs and technical solutions. Your role will include collaborating with the Business units, IT Teams, and Stakeholders to define and implement overall business strategies. You’ll work with a team on ensuring the system developments meet the highest standards of quality and efficiency to drive technical direction and execution across the organization.


Your responsibilities will include:

  • Work directly with business units to understand business needs, document requirements, and translate them into technical specifications.
  • Serve as the primary liaison between developers, testers, architects, and business units during system development and testing.
  • Assist in creating, managing, and prioritizing the backlog, ensuring that it aligns with the overall technical vision.
  • Participate in agile ceremonies, ensuring that sprint goals are technically achievable and align with long-term technical strategies. Validate and accept completed work, ensuring it meets technical standards and requirements.
  • Manage production issues through an understanding of the system(s). Test issues for troubleshooting and prioritize issues.
  • Assist with management of vendor relationships that are critical to claims operations.
  • Assist project managers in documenting and tracking project requirements and status. Provide estimates and input into project planning as required.
  • Maintain documentation and procedures. Gather critical information from meetings with various stakeholders and produces useful documentation.
  • Lead larger project efforts, ensuring project requirements and timelines are met.
  • Perform ad hoc analysis to investigate ongoing or operational issues.
  • Participate in off-hours system upgrades and implementations to minimize customer impact and promote system reliability.
Requirements:

Preferred Qualifications

  • Equivalent to high school graduation and a 4-year college/university degree in a job-related field OR equivalent work experience.
  • Six+ years of experience preferred in business analysis, technical product management, system analysis, or a similar technical role.
  • Strong technical background with experience in software development, system architecture, and IT infrastructure.
  • Proficiency in basic software applications including Word and Excel, and familiarity with relational database concepts and query writing.
  • Experience with agile methodologies and frameworks (e.g., Scrum, Kanban).
  • Completion of LOMA courses is a plus


  • Our benefits include:
  • An excellent schedule – office closes at 1 p.m. every Friday
  • Annual profit sharing
  • 401(k) with company match with discretionary contribution
  • Company-sponsored group medical and dental insurance
  • Company-paid life insurance
  • Company-paid long-term disability
  • Hybrid work environment
  • Paid holidays
  • Generous vacation time and sick leave
  • Paid parental leave
  • Casual dress year-round
  • Professional membership and licensing dues reimbursement
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Volunteer Time Off (VTO)
  • Matching gift program

About Homesteaders:

Homesteaders Life Company, a mutual company owned by its policy holders, is a national leader providing products and services to help people design a better farewell. Founded in 1906, Homesteaders is known for secure preneed funding and innovative solutions that help funeral and end-of-life professionals and consumers connect with each other.

We are currently not hiring in Colorado, Montana, New York, Illinois, Minnesota, and California.

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.



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