Business Analyst Senior

Job title: Sr Business Analyst
Number: 812813
Duration: 12 Months with possible extension
Client Location: Indianapolis, IN (HYBRID WORK)
Job Description:
The Business Analyst supports IDOH’s Office of Data and Analytics (ODA) in delivering data, analytics,
business operations, and data-governance initiatives associated with the Public Health Infrastructure Grant
(PHIG).

• This position is intended to provide business analysis, data governance, documentation, work management,reporting, and stakeholder coordination support for PHIG related work. The incumbent will translate business needs into actionable requirements; support data mapping, metadata, lineage, data-quality, and governance activities; and improve portfolio visibility through accurate work tracking, documentation,reporting, and stakeholder coordination.
• The Business Analyst will serve as a bridge between business stakeholders and technical delivery teams for PHIG-related data, analytics, reporting, infrastructure, and operational initiatives. The position will support the PHIG grant’s associated deliverables, timelines, reporting needs, and sustainability objectives.
• The incumbent will gather, analyze, document, validate, and manage business and data requirements; facilitate alignment across stakeholders; and maintain the documentation and work-management artifacts needed to move PHIG initiatives from intake through implementation and operational handoff.

The position will provide dedicated support in two interconnected areas:
Job Duties
PHIG program support

• Support the planning, implementation, monitoring, documentation, and continuous improvement of PHIG-related data, analytics, reporting, business operations, and data-governance initiatives.
• Work with ODA leadership, program areas, technical teams, and grant stakeholders to define and document PHIG business needs, project scope, deliverables, dependencies, milestones, risks, assumptions, and measures of success.
• Maintain accurate, timely, and auditable PHIG project records, including requirements, work items, decisions, action items, status reports, risks, issues, changes, and supporting documentation.
• Support development of materials needed for PHIG grant management, leadership updates, stakeholder communications, implementation monitoring, and performance reporting.
• Identify dependencies and risks that could affect PHIG timelines, data availability, reporting readiness, project outcomes, or grant deliverables; document and escalate issues through established ODA and IDOH governance channels.
• Support activities that promote the long-term sustainability, usability, governance, and operational adoption of PHIG-funded data and analytics products, processes, and infrastructure.

PHIG data mapping and governance

• Lead or support end-to-end data mapping for priority PHIG data assets, including documentation of entities and fields from source systems through staging, curated, reporting, and analytic layers, as applicable.
• Document PHIG-related business definitions, reference and code sets, business rules, transformation logic, reporting calculations, and data dependencies.
• Coordinate with data owners, data stewards, program subject-matter experts, analysts, engineers, and vendors to resolve data-definition conflicts and obtain documented decisions.
• Support development and maintenance of PHIG metadata, business glossary entries, lineage records, data dictionaries, mapping inventories, and stewardship or ownership assignments.
• Assist with documenting and monitoring PHIG data-quality rules, thresholds, exceptions, remediation activities, and resolution status.
• Develop PHIG governance scorecards and progress reporting, which may include mapping completeness, lineage coverage, glossary completeness, unresolved data-definition issues, data-quality issue severity, and time to resolution.

Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree from an accredited university in Information Technology, Computer Science, Public Health, Epidemiology, Statistics, Analytics, Programming, Business or related field; or equivalent experience.
• 2 + years of relevant business analyst and/or project management experience.
• Experience in gathering and documenting business and technical requirements and use cases.
• Experience with participating in and facilitating joint requirements gathering sessions.
• Demonstrated ability to quickly adapt and use Client tools, as needed.
• Exceptional analytics, conceptual, and problem-solving abilities.
• Exceptional communication skills, both oral and written.
• Excellent change management and relationship management skills.
• Ability to be a bridge between business and IT.
• Ability to work in a team environment with multiple and fluid demands.
• Ability to support grant-funded initiatives by maintaining organized, accurate, and timely project documentation; tracking deliverables and dependencies; communicating status and risks; and working within defined program, fiscal, reporting, and compliance expectations.
• Ability to maintain effective and professional working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Working knowledge of how to implement and grow adoption of business applications is preferred.
• Familiarity with Informatica platforms including Enterprise Data Catalog is preferred.
• Experience in leading workshops or training sessions with a user community is preferred.
• Experience supporting federally funded, grant-funded, or other externally funded initiatives with defined deliverables, reporting requirements, implementation timelines, and accountability expectations is preferred.
• Experience supporting rural health, public health, healthcare access, health equity, health systems, community health, or related initiatives is preferred.
• Experience supporting cross-agency, cross-sector, vendor-supported, or multi-stakeholder initiatives is preferred.
• Familiarity with grant-funded project documentation, implementation tracking, outcomes reporting, sustainability planning, or audit-ready records is preferred.