Daily Duties/Responsibilities: The principal duties of this position are to evaluating agency needs, as-is and to-be business processes, and technical designs to provide analysis and advice on strategies for information technology solutions and non-technical solutions. The BA will provide detailed analysis and document business processes and requirements. General Duties and Responsibilities: - Serves as a liaison between the business programs community and the IT organization in order 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 the 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.
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Required Skills (rank in order of Importance): - At least seven years of experience in commercial healthcare
- At least three years experience in State Medicaid payer system integration and delivery
- Experience with inner workings of cross functional projects
- Familiarity with Medicaid Information Technology Architecture (MITA) business architecture principles
- Familiarity with standard data structures, electronic data interchange, processes and related file formats
- Interest, skill and ability to innovate including business processes, methods/procedures, and technology
- Ability to effectively work and communicate, in both oral and written, with all levels of the Agency from frontline workers to Executive Staff as well as the Contractor(s)
- Ability to work in a professional office environment with a diverse group of teammates
- Must have exceptional attention to detail
| 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
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Interview Process (who will conduct i/v, phone or in-person, how many rounds of i/v)? Interviews will be conducted via phone or video conferencing. In-person may be used for secondary interview(s). | Interview Availability: How soon can you schedule an interview (date / times)? Once qualified resumes have been received. |