Medicaid Business Analyst

Job Title: Business Analyst 
Location: Columbia, SC 29201 Hybrid – 3 days onsite, 2 days remote
Contract Duration: 12 months

Required Skills

• Education: Bachelor's degree in a technical, business, or healthcare field. Equivalent experience in lieu of a degree is acceptable on a year-for-year basis.
• 5+ years of experience working on government IT projects as a Business Analyst or performing related duties.
• 5+ years of experience eliciting, mining, analyzing, and documenting business rules and business processes.
• 3+ years of Medicaid experience.

Preferred Skills

• Subject Matter Expertise (SME) in Medicaid or other healthcare insurance programs, including project or operational experience.
• Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS) experience, including projects or operations.
• Experience with Microsoft Project / Project Server.

Key Responsibilities

• Gather, analyze, document, and validate business and functional requirements.
• Analyze current-state (As-Is) and future-state (To-Be) business processes and recommend improvements.
• Serve as a liaison between business stakeholders, government agencies, vendors, and IT teams.
• Translate business requirements into detailed functional specifications and use cases.
• Conduct stakeholder interviews and analyze policies, regulations, and business rules to identify requirements.
• Document data requirements, business process flows, and system relationships.
• Support requirements traceability, change control, version control, and status reporting.
• Assist with business process redesign and automation initiatives.
• Provide requirements clarification and guidance to development and testing teams.
• Identify project risks, issues, and improvement opportunities.
• Maintain business rules, requirements, and process models in appropriate repositories.
• Support MMIS replacement and related Medicaid system modernization initiatives.

Additional Skills

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including requirements documentation and use-case development.
• Knowledge of formal business process documentation and modeling techniques.
• Experience using graphical process flow and business modeling tools.
• Ability to communicate effectively with executives, project managers, technical teams, and business stakeholders.
• Experience researching business requirements through stakeholder interviews, laws, regulations, and policy documentation.