Business Analyst II

Lantana Consulting Group is a trusted leader in health-information exchange, known for its expertise in developing interoperability solutions. They are seeking a Business Analyst II to analyze business processes, identify improvement opportunities, and implement solutions that enhance operational efficiency and business value.

Responsibilities:

• Own and prioritize the execution and operations backlog
• Gather requirements from sources that include other teams, external users, and clients
• Translate real-world validation findings into clear implementation and validation tickets
• Prioritize backlog based on facility-onboarding timelines, dependencies, and validation results
• Ensure backlog reflects data-quality issues, execution risks, and adoption barriers
• Align backlog to implementation metrics
• Collaborate with the Agile PM to address blockers, dependencies, and stakeholder needs
• Create detailed functional specifications, user stories, and process flows
• Organize and lead sprint planning sessions, stand-ups, backlog refinement, and sprint reviews
• Collaborate with Scrum Team to maintain well-defined product backlogs, prioritize items, and ensure proper sizing and estimations
• Gather and document business requirements through stakeholder interviews, workshops, and process analysis
• Analyze complex business problems and processes to recommend effective solutions
• Document business processes and prioritize drive requirements across teams
• Collaborate with technical teams to implement business requirements
• Facilitate meetings between business stakeholders and technical teams and communicate requirement changes effectively to stakeholders
• Foster a collaborative and self-organizing team environment, encouraging open communication, transparency, and continuous improvement
• Encourage a culture of continuous improvement by conducting retrospectives, implementing improvements, and sharing best practices
• Work on complex features within established projects
• Develop and maintain project documentation, including requirements documents, user guides, and training materials
• Ensure alignment between business and technical needs
• Identify and remove impediments that hinder team progress
• Track and report on key Agile metrics such as velocity, burn-down charts, and sprint progress

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in health informatics, computer science, engineering, information technology, or related field
• At least six years of relevant work experience
• Experience as a business analyst or similar role in software-development projects
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to translate complex business needs into actionable requirements
• Exceptional communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies, especially Scrum practices
• Proficiency in tools for requirements-management and documentation
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust Level 5 clearance
• Ability to work well with diverse, distributed teams in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and adapt to changing requirements
• Experience with software-development lifecycle management tools (such as Jira and Confluence)
• Knowledge of the principles and practices of product management
• Experience working on projects related to healthcare standards and/or public-health reporting
• Experience supporting federal-government agencies, preferably CMS, CDC, or other HHS agencies
• Knowledge of Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) or HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)
• Certification as Scrum Master (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), or other applicable certification
• Certification as Certified Analytics Professional (CAP), Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering (CPRE), or other business-analysis certification