Business Systems Analysts

Job Description

Appealing Points:

• Specialized Role in Insurance-Focused Data Architecture & Strategy Utilize your deep understanding of the insurance domain to architect advanced data platforms using technologies like Azure Synapse, Hadoop, and CosmosDB.
• Lead Cross-Functional Teams and Own End-to-End Delivery Drive complex data projects by overseeing project planning, budget, quality, and guiding BSA teams through leadership, mentorship, and process ownership.
• Work with Cutting-Edge Big Data & BI Technologies Hands-on involvement with leading tools such as Power BI, Qlik Sense, Spark, and Azure services allows you to deliver meaningful, real-world business solutions.

Annual Salary: 12 million yen and above

Job Responsibilities:

• Analyze business requirements, create proper data solutions that meets functional and non-functional requirements
• Participate in the design of data architecture, data structure, data modeling, data transformation, storage, security model of data platform (both Hadoop and Azure Data platform)
• Guide System Analysts, Engineers, Programmers and others on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces
• Discover metadata of the source database and analyze existing business systems, including value patterns and distributions, key candidates, foreign-key candidates, data flows, and functional dependencies
• Interfaces with internal/external teams and functions to provide business solutions to meet business requirements
• Manage and control quality of BSA deliverables
• Define the methodology, project plan, resource demands, budget estimation for data solutions. 
• Manages working relationships with business and IT to ensure that the solutions are developed, managed and completed on schedule.
• Coordinates technical studies and evaluation of business needs and technological alternatives with both IT and business managers
• Provides oversight of audits and other compliance requests
• Directs, motivates and develops project staff.
• Identifies and addresses training and development needs of BSA teams
• Performs other duties as assigned or required

Job Qualification:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience 
• 10 years of experience as Business Systems Analysts or similar role in Insurance industry
• Demonstrated good leadership, strong project management skills 

Skills:

• Strong data/system analytics skills using various coding language
• Good knowledge and experience in Azure Synapse, Azure CosmosDB, Azure Function Apps, Azure ServiceBus, ADLS, Oracle, MS SQL Server, Linux, Hadoop, HDFS, HBase, Solr
• Understanding of scala/spark and related big data processing framework and tools
• Experience of PowerBI, QlikSense and other BI tools
• Proficient in SQL, data types, data structures, data modeling
• Good understanding of insurance industry, 
• Good problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills

Preferable:

• Understanding of REST API, ETL, Salesforce, stream data processing, Change Data Capture, and popular BI tools is preferred
• Understanding of Data Quality, Data Governance, Data Lineage, Master Data Management is preferred
• Experience of people management is preferred

Language Requirements: Fluent level Japanese & Business English conversation skill.

Company Description

Our Client has operations in more than 40 countries and holds leading market positions in the United States, Japan, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. We are ranked #43 on the Fortune 500 list for 2018.　With over 150 years of experience, the companies offer life, accident and health insurance, retirement, and　savings products through agents, third-party distributors such as banks and brokers, and direct marketing channels. Our name is recognized and trusted by approximately 100 million customers worldwide and we serve more than 90 of the top 100 FORTUNE 500 companies in the United States.