AddressDescription
Government experience required.SCOPE OF THE PROJECT:
SCDHHS is seeking a Business Analyst – Advanced to assist with implementation of small to large projects in the Bureau of Medicaid Systems and Bureau of Business Systems Management.
Objectives to Be Fulfilled by Candidate:
The principal duties of this position are to evaluate agency needs, as-is and to-be business processes, technical designs, to provide analysis, and provide advice on strategies for information technology solutions and non-technical solutions.
The BA will provide detailed analysis, document business processes, and document requirements.Specific duties include, but are not limited to:
- Serves as a liaison between the business programs and the IT organization to provide technical solutions to meet user needs.
- Possesses expertise in the business unit(s) they support, as well as an understanding of the IT organizations systems and capabilities.
- Analyzes business partners operations to understand their strengths and weaknesses to determine opportunities to automate processes and functions.
- Assists in the business process redesign and documentation as needed for new technology and/or enhancements to existing technology.
- Translates high level business requirements into functional specifications for the IT organization and manages changes to such specifications. Educates the IT organization on the direction of the business.
- Possesses an understanding of technological trends and uses this knowledge to bring solutions to business units supported to enhance the enterprises competitive edge.
- Requirements development execution, including the elicitation, analysis, specification and validation.
- Documenting and analyzing agency business processes and recommending improvements.
- Documenting and analyzing data requirements and relationships in requirement documents; including process models.
- Participating in the requirements management processes, including change control, version control, tracking and status reporting, review/approval, and traceability.
- Providing requirements interpretation and guidance to technical and testing teams.
- Proactively identifying risks, issues, and action items leading to possible solutions.
- Interacting with internal and external organizations (i.e. vendors, State and Federal government agencies, State providers and beneficiaries, and other stakeholders).
- Research business rules, requirements, and models.
- Maintain business rules, requirements, and models in a repository per the agency's operating procedures.
- Other project-related duties.
Requirements
Required -• 5 years' experience in government IT projects as a Business Analyst or related duties- 5 years' experience eliciting, mining, and documenting business rules, processes
- 3 years Medicaid or healthcare experience
- Superb written and oral communications skills, including the ability to write requirements and Use Cases.
- Experience and ability to obtain business processes and requirements information by interviewing business personnel and by mining laws, regulations, and policy documents.
- Knowledge of formal business process documentation.
- Understanding of business modeling techniques, including the use of graphical process flow software
- Ability to effectively communicate to executive management, line management, project management, and team members.
- Salesforce and/or Salesforce Marketing Cloud
- Microsoft Office Project/Project Server
REQUIRED EDUCATION:
Bachelor's degree in a technical, business, or healthcare field.
Equivalent experience in business/systems analysis and/or computer systems development/modification may be substituted
