Public Health Business Analyst

Blu Omega is seeking a Public Health Business Analyst to support a CDC public health data modernization program. The role translates public health stakeholder needs and workflows into business and technical requirements, supports data exchange and interoperability efforts, and contributes to documentation, integration analysis, testing, and implementation activities in a fully remote environment.

Responsibilities:

• Elicit, document, and manage business and technical requirements through interviews, workshops, and reviews with public health stakeholders and SMEs
• Develop requirement artifacts such as business requirements, user stories, process maps, data flow diagrams, and acceptance criteria
• Support analysis of system integrations and data flows across public health programs, laboratories, registries, and external partners
• Collaborate with technical teams to translate requirements into solution designs, backlog items, and implementation plans
• Contribute to test planning, test scenarios, and user acceptance testing (UAT) activities in coordination with SMEs and technical staff
• Assist with documentation development, including SOPs, data dictionaries, user guides, and meeting summaries
• Support consideration of data quality, timeliness, reporting requirements, and reuse across public health use cases
• Communicate complex technical topics in clear, accessible language for non-technical audiences

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree
• At least 2 years of experience serving as a Business Analyst on technical-centric projects
• Fluency in public health surveillance, epidemiology workflows, and STLT public health operations
• Ability to analyze and document end-to-end workflows, system integrations, and data flows supporting surveillance and reporting use cases
• Proven ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical audiences
• Collaborative mindset for working across technical delivery teams and public health stakeholders
• Clear written and verbal communication, problem solving, and critical thinking skills
• Working knowledge of public health data exchange and interoperability across public health agencies, laboratories, registries, healthcare partners, and federal systems
• Working knowledge of public health standards and artifacts (e.g., HL7 v2, CDA, FHIR)
• Working knowledge of Generative AI and agentic research versus other methods of automation