Senior Staff Techno functional Business Analyst Duck Creek

Job Details Location: Hyderabad, Telangna, IN Category: Agile Employment Type: Full time Job Ref: R2626428-333 IND Senior Staff Business Analyst Duck Creek - GCC136 Were determined to make a difference and are proud to be an insurance company that goes well beyond coverages and policies. Working here means having every opportunity to achieve your goals and to help others accomplish theirs, too. Join our team as we help shape the future. Job Description: Principal Technical Business Analyst P&C Insurance & Duck Creek Location: Hyderabad, India Employment Type: Full-Time Experience: 1416 Years Position Overview The Hartford is seeking an experienced Principal Technical Business Analyst to lead business analysis and solution delivery across Property & Casualty insurance capabilities. This role requires deep P&C domain expertise, strong knowledge of the Duck Creek technology ecosystem, and the ability to translate complex business needs into scalable technology solutions. The individual will partner with product owners, business leaders, architects, engineering teams, and external partners to drive initiatives across policy administration, product configuration, billing, and enterprise integrations. The role will own capabilities from business elicitation and prioritization through implementation, production adoption, and value realization. The ideal candidate will combine business acumen, technical understanding, and delivery leadership to influence product roadmaps, optimize workflows using AI and automation, and ensure investments deliver measurable business outcomes. Exposure to Life Insurance and Employee Benefits will be valuable in supporting cross-business capabilities. Key Responsibilities Business Analysis and Requirements Elicitation Lead discovery sessions with business, product, operations, underwriting, billing, architecture, and technology stakeholders. Analyse business objectives, customer journeys, operating processes, pain points, business rules, and regulatory requirements. Translate complex business needs into clear capabilities, features, user stories, process models, data requirements, and acceptance criteria. Define functional and non-functional requirements, including security, performance, integration, resiliency, auditability, and operational needs. Identify requirement gaps, conflicting expectations, upstream and downstream dependencies, and delivery risks. Maintain end-to-end traceability from business objectives through requirements, implementation, testing, and production outcomes. Duck Creek and P&C Insurance Expertise Provide functional and technical guidance across Duck Creek Policy, Product, Billing, and related integration capabilities. Apply deep understanding of P&C insurance processes, including: Product definition and configuration Quoting, rating, and underwriting Policy issuance and servicing Endorsements and renewals Cancellations and reinstatements Billing plans, invoicing, payments, commissions, and receivables Evaluate business requirements against Duck Creek base capabilities and recommend configuration-led solutions before customization. Partner with Duck Creek architects and engineers to ensure solutions align with Duck Creek OnDemand architecture and platform standards. Support Duck Creek cloud releases, feature evaluations, product upgrades, and capability-adoption planning. Assess impacts across Policy, Billing, Insight, document generation, reporting, data, and external systems. Product Ownership and Backlog Planning Partner with product owners to define product vision, business capabilities, roadmaps, release plans, and measurable outcomes. Decompose strategic initiatives into epics, features, user stories, enablers, and implementation increments. Own backlog readiness by ensuring requirements, dependencies, acceptance criteria, and business rules are sufficiently defined. Support prioritization using business value, ROI, customer impact, risk reduction, regulatory needs, delivery effort, and architectural dependencies. Facilitate backlog refinement, sprint planning, product demonstrations, acceptance activities, and retrospectives. Ensure technical enablers, non-functional requirements, platform upgrades, and technical-debt items receive appropriate roadmap consideration. AI-Driven Business Workflow Optimization Analyse end-to-end workflows and identify opportunities for simplification, automation, and AI-enabled decision support. Define AI-enabled use cases across underwriting, policy servicing, billing, customer service, document processing, and operational workflows. Partner with .