Business Analyst

Business Analyst – Advanced
Columbia, SC - 50% REMOTE
12 Months

Required Skills

• Bachelor's degree in a technical, business, or healthcare field. 4+ years of experience in lieu of a degree is acceptable.
• 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, requirements, and business processes.
• 3+ years of Medicaid experience.
• Experience gathering business processes and requirements by interviewing business personnel and reviewing laws, regulations, and policy documents.
• Knowledge of formal business process documentation and requirements management.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as a liaison between business stakeholders, program teams, and IT organizations to identify and document business requirements.
• Conduct requirements elicitation, analysis, specification, and validation activities.
• Analyze existing As-Is business processes and develop To-Be process documentation to support system modernization.
• Gather requirements through stakeholder interviews, business process reviews, and analysis of policies, laws, and regulations.
• Document functional requirements, business rules, use cases, and process workflows.
• Translate high-level business requirements into detailed functional specifications for technical teams.
• Identify opportunities to improve, automate, and streamline business processes.
• Analyze and document data requirements, business relationships, and system dependencies.
• Support requirements traceability, change control, version control, status reporting, and requirements management.
• Maintain business requirements, rules, and models in designated repositories.
• Facilitate discussions between business units, IT teams, vendors, and other stakeholders.
• Provide requirements interpretation and clarification to development and testing teams.
• Identify project risks, issues, dependencies, and opportunities for improvement.
• Collaborate with State and Federal agencies, Medicaid providers, beneficiaries, and external vendors.
• Participate in solution evaluations, including potential buy-versus-build recommendations.