Business Analyst – Life Insurance Underwriting
Location: Springfield, MA – ONSITE 3 days a week

Serve as a Business Analysts for projects, applications and technologies within Protection New Business and Underwriting. Directly support the overall Underwriting organization with a focus on our Platform Modernization. Role includes gathering, synthesizing and documenting business requirements, rules configurations and UAT testing requirements. Underwriting platform experience. Must be able to work in a dynamic, matrixed organization, bringing together the perspectives of many and the End-to-End requirements across the customer experience for business sign-off and implementation.

Job Description

As a Business Analyst, you will drive translating business needs into the requirements for Processes and Technology to execute on supporting our customer and employee experiences. To be successful, you will:

• Document business requirements with detailed technical specifications
• Understand process flows and ensure interconnectivity of systems and applications
• Act as a liaison between Underwriting and other teams and advocate for necessary changes
• Translate customer and employee needs into documented, actionable solutions with clear measurement mechanisms in service of business outcomes
• Provide proper documentation for the Product team to prioritize features and enhancements against a prioritization framework
• Support Business owner, Product Manager and peers to align requirements to roadmaps
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve business processes by maintaining a strong knowledge of available and upcoming features delivered by external vendors
• Update procedural and processes changes
• Ensure development outputs meet business expectations by maintaining strong cross-functional relationships with technical and architecture teams
• Keep change management principles in mind, to work with the team to establish launch readiness in response to system and process updates
• Work independently and with management on highly visible, divisional/cross-divisional complex products and projects
• Be sought as a key resource for documentation of unique or complex business problems
• Drive continuous improvement and efficiencies beyond own scope of responsibility

Skills: Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years experience supporting projects and driving execution of complex technical work
• Business Analyst experience for Underwriting systems
• Understanding of Waterfall and Agile processes and documentation
• Strong requirements documentation skills
• Bachelors Degree
• Ability to think strategically
• Ability to collaborate across diverse teams and organizations

Preferred Qualifications:

• Individual who enjoys solving complex problems and improving team processes
• Insurance / underwriting knowledge
• Exposure to customer experience/user experience practices
• Proven ability to partner with cross-functional teams to design, configure, test, and deploy
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to changing business priorities
• Experience with additional requirements tools including JIRA and Confluence

Job Description:

We are seeking a highly analytical and collaborative Senior Data Analyst to support a complex SAP R/3 to S/4HANA finance migration. This individual will play a key role in Enterprise Data Warehouse and Operational warehouse ensuring the Finance Data Mart and warehouse is accurate and business alignment through detailed EDW mapping, validation, and testing efforts across financial domains in EDW.

This is a hybrid/in-person role, requiring regular on-site collaboration with business partners, data engineering teams, BI developers, and SAP stakeholders. The ideal candidate brings a strong background in data analysis, finance, testing, and enterprise systems with a hands-on mindset.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead the creation and maintenance of EDW data mapping documentation between EDW and Finance system (SAP).
Collaborate with business and functional leads to gather and clarify financial data transformation and reporting requirements
Support data profiling, cleansing, transformation, and validation activities
Assist in writing and executing test strategies, including:

Unit testing
Functional integration testing
User acceptance testing (UAT)

Work closely with the BI reporting team to validate data structures and support post-migration reporting needs
Partner with data engineers and solution architects to define and verify transformation rules
Log and track issues and support resolution during test cycles; maintain appropriate testing and validation documentation
Contribute to SteerCo reporting, providing data readiness updates, issue status, and impact summaries
Work with Project Mangers to maintain and support the RAID log (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies)
Collaborate with offshore and onshore teams to align on requirements, deliverables, and timelines

Skills: Required Qualifications:

6+ years of experience in data analysis, preferably in finance or enterprise data systems
2+ years working on SAP.
Proficient in SQL and familiar with data validation and reconciliation techniques
Functional knowledge of SAP finance modules (GL, AP/AR, FA, CO)
Experience with data mapping, data dictionaries, and transformation logic documentation
Hands-on experience writing and executing test plans including functional integration testing
Strong analytical and communication skills, with ability to work onsite with business stakeholders
Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and BI tools like Power BI, Tableau, or SAP Analytics Cloud

Preferred Qualifications:

Familiarity with Finance Accounting Transformation and Finance data migration.
Experience supporting financial reconciliation, audit readiness, or compliance-driven data initiatives
Exposure to cloud-based data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, AWS, Azure)
Comfortable working in hybrid project delivery environments with Agile or waterfall elements

Title: Project Manager 5

Location: Boston, MA

Type: Hybrid (3 days onsite per week)

Duration: 10/20/2025 – 06/30/2026

Job Title: Investment Management Project Manager, Mastery
Tier4 is seeking an experienced project manager to support Investment Management and Market Risk initiatives. In this role, you will report directly to the Portfolio Lead and be accountable for the planning, day-to-day execution, management, implementation and reporting of projects while using the defined project management (PM) processes and standards. The PM process is designed to support the PMO mission to increase the value impact of change efforts across corporate functions. As a Project Manager, you will execute by following a standardized process for project initiation, planning, execution, and close. Project managers will partner and support project sponsors and portfolio lead in developing required detailed project artifacts tailored to project complexity.
Investment Management domain experience is a must with preference to Market Risk background. An understanding of securities and derivatives preferred.

As the Project Manager, you will:

Partner with Project Sponsors and Functional Managers to compile Discovery artifacts such as a Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA), Project Charter, high level Resource Plan, and high-level Milestone Plan to be reviewed to receive Discovery Funding
Develop and maintain required Detailed Planning artifacts and manage plan execution
Determine project scope and manage scope execution
Develop financial forecasts, record cost variance, anticipate and address delivery challenges, and request budget changes if needed following associated Change Request Process
Develop high-level milestones during Discovery? and develop detailed project schedules during Detailed Planning
Based on complexity assessment and with guidance on each project, refine the resource plan, develop a RACI Matrix, conduct a Key-Person Risk Assessment, and Third-Party Support Needs Assessment
Ensure early identification, resolution, and escalation of project risks through maintenance of Risk and Issue Log and project Pre-Mortem activity
Accountable for meeting all business requirements from development through implementation

Skills: The Minimum Qualifications

5+ years of experience leading projects impacting core Investment Manager, Financial and Capital Market systems and business processes

Bachelor’s degree? or equivalent experience and expertise
7+ years of project management experience?
Executive presence with ability to quickly build rapport and cultivate relationships; high-level of emotional intelligence
Excellent communication and presentation skills; track record of developing and delivering high- impact presentations
Astute business judgment, analytic, creative, and problem-solving skill, with experience applying these skills to acquire and develop strategic partnerships
Proficient experience with Project Management tools including but not limited to: MS Office Suite (Project, Teams, Excel, PowerPoint and Word)
Proven success in delivering projects on time, within budget, and to scope?
Strong understanding of project management methodologies i.e. Agile or Waterfall?
Excellent communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills
Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or equivalent

Education: Bachelor’s degree?

 Microsoft Fabric Solutions Architect

Position Overview

Tier4 Group is seeking an accomplished Microsoft Fabric Solutions Architect to lead the design, implementation, and modernization of enterprise-scale analytics platforms. In this senior consulting role, you will serve as a trusted advisor to clients, architecting end-to-end data solutions within the Microsoft Fabric ecosystem and driving digital transformation initiatives that deliver measurable business impact. This role will report directly to the VP of Enterprise Architecture.

You will guide clients through strategic data modernization—envisioning Lakehouse architectures, implementing medallion-layered data models, and orchestrating large-scale data migrations. This role requires both deep technical expertise and the ability to engage executives and technical teams in shaping data strategies that align with business objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise data modernization initiatives leveraging Microsoft Fabric’s unified analytics platform across Data Engineering, Data Science, and BI domains.
• Architect and design Lakehouse and medallion architectures (Bronze, Silver, Gold layers) using Fabric’s Delta tables to support scalable, high-performance, and governed data ecosystems.
• Define and implement data orchestration strategies** using Fabric Data Pipelines and Notebooks (PySpark), modernizing legacy ETL frameworks such as SSIS.
• Oversee large-scale data migrations, including full end-to-end transitions (e.g., 22TB Redshift warehouse migrations) into Microsoft Fabric, ensuring continuity, integrity, and performance optimization.
• Leverage Fabric’s table mirroring and integrated Data Warehouse capabilities to unify disparate data sources, enabling near real-time analytics and reporting.
• Collaborate directly with client executives, architects, and engineering teams to translate business requirements into scalable, sustainable data architectures.
• Establish and evangelize best practices for data modeling, governance, lineage, and performance tuning within Microsoft Fabric.
• Support pre-sales activities by leading client workshops, developing architecture blueprints, and creating proofs of concept that demonstrate Fabric’s value.
• Mentor junior consultants and engineers, fostering technical excellence across engagements.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in data architecture, engineering, or BI modernization, with at least 2+ years hands-on in Microsoft Fabric.
• Proven experience architecting and implementing Lakehouse and medallion architecture frameworks using Delta tables.
• Strong proficiency in PySpark, Data Pipelines, Fabric Notebooks, and Fabric Data Warehouse.
• Demonstrated success in migrating large-scale data platforms(e.g., Amazon Redshift, Azure Synapse, SQL Server) into Microsoft Fabric.
• Deep understanding of ETL/ELT design, data modeling, metadata management, and data governance.
• Exceptional communication and consulting skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and translate technical solutions into business outcomes.
• Experience working in a consulting or client-facing architecture capacity.

Preferred Skills

• Microsoft certifications: Azure Data Engineer Associate, Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate, or Azure Solutions Architect Expert.
• Experience integrating Power BI and Fabric-based semantic models.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Git, and DevOps practices for Fabric deployments.
• Thought leadership experience (e.g., presenting at conferences, publishing blogs, or contributing to data architecture communities).