Job Type:
PermanentBuild a brilliant future with Hiscox
The role:
As a Systems Analyst within Hiscox you will create and deliver solutions which address business needs through the efficient exploitation of new, or existing, technology capabilities augmented by integration and automation. Ensuring solutions work effectively end to end, improving user experience and productivity while minimising the total cost of ownership.
As a Systems Analyst you will be involved in all stages of the delivery process, from ideation, requirements gathering, and analysis, to build, test and deployment. Developing a strong understanding of the business case, impacted business processes, and supporting technology to ensure successful outcomes. Working within a multidisciplinary team you will be responsible for creating low level solutions, including technical specification, while providing direction and leadership to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
This is a key role for the delivery of technical innovation within the Hiscox UK Retail team. As a Systems Analyst you will be expected to take on challenging deliveries, spanning more than one application and/or technology and be very delivery focused.
Key Responsibilities:
· Take ownership of the solution technical specification, developing a detailed understanding of the business requirements, shaping the solution, and documenting the technical requirements as user stories and/or functional specifications including acceptance criteria, to ensure clarity and alignment with business objectives.
· Develop a reputation as a credible, trusted, partner through the creation of strong relationships with business stakeholders, SME’s and internal and external technical colleagues at all levels.
· Work with non-technical business stakeholders, eliciting requirements and developing an understanding of their needs and processes. Helping steer the business thinking to minimise complexity and maximise reuse.
· Working with technical colleagues including Product Owners, Solution Architects, developers, testers and software vendors you will be responsible for developing and reviewing solution options, to ensure business functional and non-functional concerns are addressed.
· Act as a trusted SME for developers and testers throughout the development process. Providing support and guidance on how the solution should be implemented, and tested.
· Support testing activities, reviewing results, triaging failures, analysing defects and identifying underlying root cause.
· Responsible for implementing continual improvements within your sphere of influence. Maximising the efficiency of the team to ensure that we are constantly delivering high quality and effective technical change.
Technical Skills:
· Proven experience of eliciting requirements from business stakeholders. Documenting the agreed technical solution in a format which can be readily understood by technical and non-technical colleagues, utilising a range of techniques as appropriate.
· Capability to organise and facilitate collaborative requirements or design workshops to explore challenges and agree solutions.
· Experience of working with third party software vendors, software houses and technology vendors.
· Proven experience working with systems integration, creating and reviewing API specifications using both SOAP and REST protocols.
· Experience of working with and integrating complex software applications, and packages, with an ability to develop a detailed understanding of the application functionality and processing.
Nice to have:
· Ability to understand database schemas is required, with experience of writing SQL an advantage.
· Previous exposure to the insurance or other regulated financial service industries would be advantageous
· Understanding of the Azure cloud architecture, principles and components would be beneficial.
About us:
Hiscox is a diversified international insurance group with a powerful brand, strong balance sheet, and plenty of room to grow. Listed on the London Stock Exchange and headquartered in Bermuda, Hiscox has over 3,000 staff across 14 countries and 34 offices. Structured by geography and product, Hiscox’s long-held business strategy has helped them grow from a niche Lloyd’s underwriter to an international insurance group with a powerful consumer brand.
In our Lisbon office, we have the privilege of employing approximately 500 exceptional professionals representing 29 diverse nationalities. Despite our central location within the city, we recognize the importance of maintaining a healthy work-life balance. As part of our commitment to our employees’ well-being, we provide a 35-hour workweek along with the option for a hybrid working schedule.
Our mission is to give people and businesses the confidence to realize their ambitions. We value courage, humanity, ownership, integrity, and connection, and we believe that together we can build something better.
Diversity and flexible working at Hiscox
At Hiscox we care about our people. We hire the best people for the job and we’re committed to diversity and creating a truly inclusive culture, which we believe drives success. We also understand that working life doesn’t always have to be ‘nine to five’ and we support flexible working wherever we can. No promises, but please chat to our resourcing team about the flexibility we could offer for this role.
Why Hiscox?
Healthy work-life balance with our 35h/week and hybrid working system.
Holidays: 25 days + 2 Hiscox Days (Extra two Annual Leave).
Health insurance, gym allowance, pension plan etc.
After 5 years work, 1-month sabbatical leave.
Team spirit with many opportunities to engage and an open culture.
Work with amazing people and be part of a unique culture
