Business Analyst - Advanced (Hybrid)

Job Title: Business Analyst - Advanced (Onsite)

Location: Columbia, SC

Duration: 12 Months

Job Description:

The Business Analyst - Advanced will be assigned to projects for the Client. 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 (rank in order of importance):

• 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

Preferred Skills (rank in order of importance):

• 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.