Senior Business Analyst

Founded in 2002 American Auto Shield is headquartered in CO, we specialize in 3rd party administration, providing nationwide coverage and claims services for vehicle and home service contracts offered through dealers, agents, direct marketers, membership organizations and lenders.

We continue to experience tremendous growth, which equates to fantastic opportunities for our employees. The Senior Business Analyst provides strategic technology solutions to the business by working closely with stakeholders to understand the business strategy, processes, services, and roadmap. The Senior Business Analyst role will be responsible for documentation of functionality needed to address business challenges and lead the efforts to identify operational, financial, and technological risks.  The Senior Business Analyst will be expected to participate in improving business processes and workflows through observation and evaluation.

Our five values are the heartbeat of American Auto Shield. These values are integrity, respectful, accountable, collaborative, and innovative.

The Sr. Business Analyst earns competitive compensation from $110,000-$140,000 annually*

What will you do in this role?

You will…

• Provides leadership to team members and peers through collaboration and initiates cross-functional projects
• Participates in Agile ceremonies and maintaining Agile artifacts
• Communicates with developers, users, and stakeholders to gather thorough requirements, provide status updates, lead product design discussions, and any other pertinent notifications
• Develops and utilizes standard templates to accurately and concisely write requirements specifications
• Works with stakeholders and project team to understand business value and priority of requested feature changes
• Participates in the QA of purchased and developed solutions to ensure features and functions have been implemented accurately
• Translates conceptual customer requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developers/project team.
• Communicates changes or modifications of business requirements to project teams so that risks and scope changes can be mitigated
• Creates and maintains updated documentation on solution functionality, data organization, and business reporting
• Other ad-hoc duties as assigned

What you need to join our team:

Required Experience, Skills & Abilities:

• Eight to ten years related work experience
• Proven experience with business and technical requirements analysis, elicitation, data modeling, verification, and methodology development
• Strong communication, interpersonal, organizational, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
• Creative and analytical thinker with strong problem-solving capabilities
• Technical proficiencies with the Microsoft Office Suite
• Data Analysis and Visualization – SQL proficiency preferred

Education/Certifications

• Bachelor’s degree required
• IIBA certifications preferred
• Agile Certified Product Owner preferred

Why work for us? We are excited to provide:

• Competitive compensation from $110,000 - $140,000 annually*
  • Comprehensive benefits package
    • Medical
    • Dental
    • Vision
    • Short/Long Term Disability
    • Life Insurance
    • Flex Spending Account
  • 401 (k)**
  • PTO
  • Paid Sick Time 
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Voluntary Benefits
    • Pet Insurance
    • Life Insurance
  • Wellness Program
  • Employee recognition program
  • Satisfaction of work with a highly skilled team that makes a big impact company-wide

Job Location

Lakewood, CO

*Individual compensation packages are based on various factors unique to each candidate, including skill set, experience, qualifications, and other job-related aspects.
**Eligible the first of the month after the 1st 90 days