Business Analyst // Local to Iowa

Engagement Type

Contract

Short Description

Division
of Information Technology (DoIT) is seeking candidate for documenting home-grown
systems in IFA\\IEDA\\ITG for future modernization.

Complete Description

The Iowa Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is
focused on modernizing its Medicaid and Integrated Eligibility Systems to
enable faster policy and program changes, improve continuity of operations, and
reduce brittle point-to-point dependencies. Currently, data passes through
multiple legacy systems with several weak links, leading to data reconciliation
failures, downstream impacts, and manual workarounds. To address these
challenges, the Customer would like to engage with Google Cloud Professional
Services (PSO) to establish a governed enterprise integration and data
foundation. This initial phase will focus on establishing a Cloud Foundation
for a FedRAMP Moderate environment, providing a data integration platform, an
application modernization strategy, performing a mainframe assessment,
providing a product backlog, and defining program governance. Ultimately, this
effort aims to configure a modern Google Cloud application platform, allowing
for incremental modernization while designing infrastructure aligned with
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) baseline requirements.
Responsibilities of business analyst role include but
are not limited to:
Creating, presenting and maintaining user stories,
acceptance criteria, demo expectations and design documents in DHS defined
systems.
Creating/documenting, tracing, maintaining,
prioritizing, and assessing changes to business processes and the associated
requirements
Working closely with key decision makers, systems
owners and end users in support of core processes and critical business
objectives
Conducting research to obtain data, analyzing problems
to advise and recommend solutions
Querying and analyzing data to determine solutions,
such as installation of alternate methods and procedures, changes in processing
methods and practices, or redesign of products or services
Advising client or department heads on alternate
methods of solving needs or problems, and recommending specific solutions
Working within an agile methodology framework with a
focus on delivering value and adjusting rapidly to produce the most effective
outcome
Working closely with all IT organizations and driving
projects to successful completion
A successful candidate for this role is expected to
possess the following skills and experience:
Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written
communication skills and the ability to interact with a diverse group of team
members, including executives, managers, IT professionals, and subject matter
experts
Experience in process mapping, group facilitation, data
gathering and analysis, and phases of project life cycle (requirements
gathering, design, development, deployment, training, and measuring
effectiveness.)
Experience delivering software as part of an agile
delivery team
Strong ability to work effectively within time
constraints, changing priorities, and independently
Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite including Excel,
Word, PowerPoint and Visio
Experience with requirement gathering software such as
Azure DevOps, TFS, JIRA, or RTC.
Analyze business strategy and user needs, document
specifications, and translate business objectives into proper system
requirement specifications
Guide business customers through business case
development for new applications/functionality, including cost / benefit
analysis and risk / impact analysis
Understanding of how to deliver value through
realizations of benefits, avoidance of cost, identify new opportunities and
modernizing the organization
Focus on continuous improvement for both the business
process and the underlying technologies and system support
Strong ability to decompose complex concepts into
smaller tasks while maintaining end-to-end business process focus
Work closely with other Business Units to identify and
deliver Enterprise value
Experience providing consulting services to
governmental entities
Skilled at consulting with executive-level stakeholders
to define business needs or problems
Requirements
Experience working on large, complex IT systems (8
years)
Experience eliciting requirements, writing user stories
and design documents, defining acceptance criteria, testing outcomes, and
facilitating communication between business stakeholders, developers, and
project teams. (8 years)
Experience with SDLC procedures and system development
methodologies. (8 years)
Experience managing stakeholder expectations and
priorities. (8 years)
Experience working within a project governance
structure (methodology, required templates, and reporting). (8 years)
Excellent task management skills. Ability to balance
and manage multiple tasks, with changing priorities, in a cross-functional
environment. (8 years)
Ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects, and
project activities, simultaneously, while meeting established deadlines. (8
years)
Experience with Microsoft development platforms and
software. (8 years)
Experience in an Agile environment. (6 years)
Experience with Application Lifecycle Management [ALM]
tools; Microsoft s Team Foundation Server (TFS), Visual Studio Team Services
(VSTS), Azure DevOps (ADO), Atlassian s Jira, IBM s Rational Team Suite (RTC).
(5 years)
Working experience with Microsoft SQL Server Management
Studio or other relational database software. (5 years)
Familiarity with advanced information management
practices, data modeling standards, and/or architecture design and analysis. (3
years)
Bachelor s degree in management information systems,
Business, or related field, and/or relevant experience (8 years)

Required/Desired Skills

Skill	Required/Desired	Amount	of Experience
Experience working on large, complex IT systems	Required	8.0	Years
Experience with Data Mapping and Data Modeling	Required	5.0	Years
Experience eliciting requirements, writing user stories and design documents, defining acceptance criteria, testing outcomes, and facilitating	Required
communication between business stakeholders, developers, and project teams.	Required	8.0	Years
Experience with SDLC procedures and system development methodologies.	Required	8.0	Years
Experience managing stakeholder expectations and priorities.	Required	8.0	Years
Experience working within a project governance structure (methodology, required templates, and reporting).	Required	8.0	Years
Excellent task management skills. Ability to balance and manage multiple tasks, with changing priorities, in a cross-functional environment.	Required	8.0	Years
Ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects, and project activities, simultaneously, while meeting established deadlines.	Required	8.0	Years
Experience with Microsoft development platforms and software.	Required	8.0	Years
Experience in an Agile environment.	Required	6.0	Years
Experience with Application Lifecycle Management [ALM] tools; Microsoft s Team Foundation Server (TFS), Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS),	Required		Years
Azure DevOps (ADO), Atlassian s Jira, IBM s Rational Team Suite (RTC).	Required	5.0	Years
Working experience with Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio or other relational database software.	Required	5.0	Years
Familiarity with advanced information management practices, data modeling standards, and/or architecture design and analysis.	Required	3.0	Years
Bachelor s degree in management information systems, Business, or related field, and/or relevant experience	Required	8.0	Years