Business Analyst - Advanced

Job Title: Business Analyst - Advanced 

Location: Columbia, South Carolina (Hybrid)

Duration: 12 Months

Need ONLY candidates who is currently situated in South Carolina
Looking for & - W2

Key Responsibilities

• Gather, analyze, and document business requirements, workflows, and business rules
• Translate business requirements into functional specifications for technical teams
• Analyze current business operations and recommend process improvements
• Support business process redesign and documentation efforts
• Conduct requirements elicitation, validation, and change management activities
• Create and maintain business process models and requirement repositories
• Work closely with technical, testing, project management, and business teams
• Provide clarification and interpretation of requirements to development and QA teams
• Identify project risks, issues, and mitigation strategies
• Collaborate with vendors, state agencies, healthcare providers, and stakeholders
• Support MMIS and healthcare-related project initiatives
• Participate in governance, documentation, and reporting activities

Required Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Technical, Business, or Healthcare field
• 5 years of experience in Government IT projects as a Business Analyst
• 5 years of experience eliciting, mining, and documenting business rules and processes
• 3 years of Medicaid or Healthcare industry experience
• Strong understanding of business modeling techniques and process flow documentation tools
• Experience documenting requirements, workflows, and use cases
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to analyze regulations, policies, and business procedures

Preferred Skills

• Medicaid subject matter expertise
• MMIS project or operational experience
• Healthcare insurance domain experience
• Microsoft Project / Project Server experience
• Knowledge of formal business process documentation methodologies