Job Title: Business Analyst
Location: Austin, TX (Onsite)
Duration: 12 Months
Important:
• Local candidates to Austin, TX or someone within driving distance only.
• Must have experience with Medicaid, Health and State projects.
Job Description:
• This position will support the transition of CARE functions from a legacy mainframe environment into modern, modular, Medicaid Enterprise System-aligned solutions.
• The CARE Program of IT projects includes several concurrent, coordinated workstreams.
• This position will focus on ensuring a smooth migration of CARE-related business, data, reporting, and integration capabilities from the current location to future locations.
• The selected candidate must be able to work across business, application, data, reporting, infrastructure, security, and project delivery teams to document current-state business and technical processes, translate business to technical needs, map business and technical dependencies, identify gaps, and work with stakeholders to define future-state business and technical requirements that support continuity of Medicaid operations.
Role Purpose:
• The purpose of this role is to provide high-caliber business analysis and technical integration support for the CARE Program to:
• Elicit, document, validate, and manage requirements; facilitate collaboration to synthesize information and ensure full coverage.
• Build traceability from stakeholder needs to system requirements; challenge gaps and validate assumptions for accuracy.
• Facilitate discovery and analysis of CARE functions; synthesize findings and deliver decision-ready analysis.
• Act as a bridge between teams, validate assumptions, and proactively address gaps.
• Ensure CARE retirement covers all critical dependencies through cross-functional reviews and actionable recommendations.
Required Skills:
• 8 years of experience as Business analysis experience reviewing, analyzing, and evaluating business systems and user needs.
• 8 years of experience eliciting, documenting, validating, and managing business, functional, technical, data, reporting, and interface requirements.
• 8 years of experience developing requirements traceability from business needs through design, development, testing, implementation, and operational readiness.
• 8 years of experience conducting current-state and future-state process analysis, gap analysis, impact analysis, and dependency analysis.
• 8 years of experience documenting use cases, user stories, acceptance criteria, business rules, process flows, and requirements specifications.
• 8 years of experience working across business, application, data, infrastructure, security, and vendor teams.
• 8 years of experience supporting complex IT projects with multiple stakeholders, dependencies, risks, and decision points.
• 8 years of strong written and verbal communication skills, including executive-ready summaries and technical documentation.
• 8 years of experience analyzing data flows, interfaces, reports, source-to-target mappings, or system integration dependencies.
Preferred Skills:
• 4 years of experience supporting legacy system modernization, mainframe retirement, system replacement, or enterprise transformation.
• 3 years of experience with Medicaid, health and human services, claims, eligibility, provider, waiver, behavioral health, IDD, State Supported Living Centers, or related public-sector spaces.
• 3 years or experience with application development or infrastructure deployment projects.
• 2 years of experience with APIs, batch interfaces, data warehouses, reporting modernization, or modular system design.
• 2 years of experience with Texas Project Delivery Framework, DIR, state government IT governance, or public-sector procurements.
• 1 year with Certification such as CBAP, PMI-PBA, PMP, Agile, Scrum, SAFe, or related credential.
Regards,
Himanshu Rawat
himanshu@ carmansg.com