Medicaid Business Analyst - Govt IT Projects - HYBRID (MUST be a SC resident) - W2 ONLY

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.