Why USAA?

At USAA, our mission is to empower our members to achieve financial security through highly competitive products, exceptional service and trusted advice. We seek to be the #1 choice for the military community and their families.

Embrace a fulfilling career at USAA, where our core values – honesty, integrity, loyalty and service – define how we treat each other and our members. Be part of what truly makes us special and impactful.

The Opportunity

As a Business Rules Analyst Lead, the candidate selected for this position will work with the Underwriting Policy and Innovation Team in USAA’s Life Company. They will work with the team on configuring, identifying and updating rules in the underwriting workbench rules engine. They will work with various IT and business partners on multiple projects to modernize the life insurance experience for our members.

Leads in facilitating business requirements by means of design, workflow analyses and facilitated discussions with end users.

Detailed understanding of supported technology to both manage and facilitate business needs when required. Translates users' business requirements for complex projects into detailed functional designs for development, testing and implementation. Applies methodologies and prepares detailed specifications and related documentation.

We offer a flexible work environment that requires an individual to be in the office 4 days per week. This position can be based in one of the following locations: San Antonio, TX, Plano, TX, Phoenix, AZ, Colorado Springs, CO, Charlotte, NC, Chesapeake, VA or Tampa, FL. Relocation assistance is not available for this position.

What you'll do:

• Develops and defines business scope for enhancement projects, independently builds and/or deploys highly complex business rules/configuration changes to all test/prod environments.

• Manages and designs data lineage from source to target systems, designing and maintaining rules and transformations for tools supported and being primary resource for system changes and project work related to systems supported, designing impacts and enhancement assessments of changes.

• Mentors and provides oversight to others on tools and techniques of build/deploy processes and business process impacts.

• Leads large scale implementations and projects that impact managed tools.

• Leads cross functional teams to improve, synchronize, and integrate process controls and automation.

• Understands and communicates impacts of connection points across and between tools supported, identifying enhancement and develop activities to improve business performance.

• Configures and manages application to facilitate business user needs, designing reporting, support issue and root cause and work directly with IT to resolve.

• Analyzes and designs complex specifications for team member execution.

• Viewed as a subject matter expert regarding process controls, application usage and user requirements.

• Anticipates quality issues and takes proactive action to ensure their resolution.

• Acts as a liaison and influences the development and support teams in aligning projects to release environments and resolving conflicts.

• Influences and advises on soundness of rollout plans, impacted parties and scheduling and capacity needs.

• Experience in gathering and authoring Business Requirements and solutions for large scale complex projects.

• Prioritizes, assigns, and monitors work assignments under the direction of management.

• Ensures risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.

What you have:

• Bachelor’s degree OR 4 years of related experience (in addition to the minimum years of experience required) may be substituted in lieu of degree.

• 8 years of experience overseeing and leading needs assessment initiatives and their translation into technology solutions, including 4 years of experience in data management, data quality, or a business application function; OR Advanced degree in Information Management, Information Studies or related field with 6 years of experience overseeing and leading needs assessments and their translation into technology solutions, including 2 years of experience in data management, data quality, or a business application function.

• Extensive experience leveraging data to drive technology solutions and meeting business requirements.

• Experience overseeing the gathering and authoring of Business Requirements and solutions for large scale complex projects.

• Advanced facilitation, collaboration and consensus building skills, with extensive experience in presenting to cross-functional teams and Senior/Executive leaders.

• Demonstrated management or execution of a technology solution in subject area of support.

• Demonstrated subject matter expertise in applying and creating business rules practices, methods, and problem-solving strategies.

• Demonstrated ability to lead and coach others in understanding and translating needs into requirements.

• Expert knowledge of relevant regulatory rules, industry regulations, risk management practices, and regulatory data sources.

What sets you apart:

• Experience with Life Insurance Industry underwriting requirements.

• Experience with ALIP Policy Administration System.

• Experience with Business Rules Management.

• Experience with Query languages/tools and report building.

Compensation range: The salary range for this position is: $114,080 - $218,030 .

Compensation: USAA has an effective process for assessing market data and establishing ranges to ensure we remain competitive. You are paid within the salary range based on your experience and market data of the position. The actual salary for this role may vary by location.

Employees may be eligible for pay incentives based on overall corporate and individual performance and at the discretion of the USAA Board of Directors.

The above description reflects the details considered necessary to describe the principal functions of the job and should not be construed as a detailed description of all the work requirements that may be performed in the job.

Benefits: At USAA our employees enjoy best-in-class benefits to support their physical, financial, and emotional wellness. These benefits include comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans, 401(k), pension, life insurance, parental benefits, adoption assistance, paid time off program with paid holidays plus 16 paid volunteer hours, and various wellness programs. Additionally, our career path planning and continuing education assists employees with their professional goals.

For more details on our outstanding benefits, visit our benefits page on USAAjobs.com.

Applications for this position are accepted on an ongoing basis, this posting will remain open until the position is filled. Thus, interested candidates are encouraged to apply the same day they view this posting.

USAA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

If you are an existing USAA employee, please use the internal career site in OneSource to apply.

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Find your purpose. Join our mission.

USAA is unlike any other financial services organization. The mission of the association is to facilitate the financial security of its members, associates and their families through provision of a full range of highly competitive financial products and services; in so doing, USAA seeks to be the provider of choice for the military community. We do this by upholding the highest standards and ensuring that our corporate business activities and individual employee conduct reflect good judgment and common sense, and are consistent with our core values of service, loyalty, honesty and integrity.

USAA attributes its long-standing success to its most valuable resource: our 35,000 employees. They are the heart and soul of our member-service culture. When you join us, you'll become part of a thriving community committed to going above for those who have gone beyond: the men and women of the U.S. military, their associates and their families. In order to play a role on our team, you don't have to be connected to the military yourself – you just need to share our passion for serving our more than 13 million members.

USAA is an EEO/AA Employer - applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, protected veteran status or other status protected by law.

California applicants, please review our HR CCPA - Notice at Collection (https://statmcstg.usaa.com/mcontent/static_assets/Media/enterprise_hr_cpra_notice_at_collection.pdf) here.

USAA is an EEO/AA Employer - applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, protected veteran status or other status protected by law.