Job Description:
***Only W2 resumes are accepted
Work Location: Hybrid (3 days in office, 2 days remote).
Candidate Location: Candidate MUST be a SC resident.
SCDHHS is seeking a Business Analyst - Advanced to assist with implementation of changes as well as small-to-large projects for the MMIS and related subsystems.
DAILY DUTIES / RESPONSIBILITIES:
The principal duties of this position are to evaluate agency needs, as-is and to-be business processes, and technical designs to provide analysis and document requirements on strategies for information technology solutions and non-technical solutions. The Business Analyst - Advanced will serve on a team of business analysts responsible for providing detailed analysis and documenting business processes and requirements.
Specific duties include, but are not limited to:
· Serves as a liaison between the business programs community 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 organization's systems and capabilities.
· Analyzes business partner's operations to understand their strengths and weaknesses to determine opportunities to automate processes and functions.
· Assists in business process redesign and documentation as needed for new 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.
· Negotiates agreements and commitments by facilitating communication between business unit(s) and IT from initial requirements to final implementation.
· Possesses an understanding of technological trends and uses this knowledge to bring solutions to business units supported to enhance the enterprise's 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.
· Participating in the requirements management processes, including change control, version control, tracking and status reporting, and traceability.
· Providing requirements interpretation and guidance to technical and test 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).
· May make recommendations for buy versus build decision.
· Research business rules, requirements, and models.
· Maintain business rules, requirements, and models in a repository.
· Other project-related duties.
Required Skills
· 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 of Medicaid experience
· 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.
Preferred Skills
· General Subject Matter Expertise as it relates to Medicaid or other healthcare insurance experience (project or operations)
· MMIS experience (project or operations)
· Microsoft Office Project/Project Server
additional skills & duties:
· Superb written and oral communications skills, including the ability to write requirements and Use Cases.
· 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.
