Job Description:
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Location Requirement: Remote of Onsite? Candidates must be CURRENT WI residents. No relocation is allowed. The selected hire can work mostly remote from within the state of Wisconsin, but will be required to be onsite in Madison once a month.
This role will act as a senior-level systems analyst to conduct comprehensive analysis and documentation of the Medicaid Eligibility System.
Services to be performed include acting as a senior-level systems analyst to conduct comprehensive analysis and documentation of the Medicaid Eligibility System. This role will focus on inventorying, analyzing, and documenting eligibility determination logic, business rules, batch processes, system interfaces, and operational workflows operating within a hybrid environment that includes Mainframe batch programs, COBOL modules, SQL-based logic, an Enterprise Java web application, Java Web Services, and a Business Rules Engine such as Corticon.
The selected candidate will produce structured documentation including Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), process flows, rule inventories, pseudocode representations, traceability matrices, interface documentation, and system architecture documentation to support operational sustainability, audit readiness, knowledge transfer, and modernization planning.
General skills and experience:
- Excellent interpersonal communication skills
- Excellent organization and time management skills
- Providing detailed status report updates to project manager
- Strong analytical and documentation skills
- Experience analyzing complex systems and identifying documentation gaps
- Ability to translate technical logic into structured business documentation
- Ability to independently plan and accomplish complex analytical tasks
Systems analyst skills and experience:
Facilitation
- Efficiently plan and execute knowledge transfer sessions with business and technical SMEs
- Establish agendas and set meeting objectives
- Document and distribute meeting decisions and action items
- Timely follow-up on all action items
- Identify documentation gaps and operational risks
Elicitation
Efficiently extract business rules, workflows, and technical logic from:
- Mainframe batch programs
- COBOL source code
- Embedded SQL logic
- Enterprise Java web application components
- Java Web Services (service operations, inputs/outputs, error handling)
- Business Rules Engine such as Corticon (rule sets / decision services)
o Validation
- Review and validate documented rules, interfaces, and workflows with business and technical stakeholders
- Identify redundancies, inconsistencies, and undocumented logic
- Analyze and evaluate business systems and user needs
o Testing
- Document validation scenarios and test cases traceable to business rules and service operations
- Confirm documented logic reflects system behavior
- Document discrepancies and collaborate with technical staff to resolve
- Facilitate review of validation results with stakeholders
Documentation:
o Use established documentation templates and standards
o Produce clear and concise documentation including:
- Eligibility rules inventory (including rule sources in COBOL/SQL and Business Rules Engine such as Corticon)
- Batch job inventory and dependencies
- Service inventory and interface documentation for Java Web Services
- Decision trees and rule logic documentation
- Pseudocode representations of system logic
- Process flow diagrams
- Traceability matrices linking policy to system implementation
- Standard Operating Procedures for batch operations, rule maintenance, service support, and operational support
Industry skills and experience
- 5+ years of experience performing systems analysis in large enterprise or government environments
- Experience working in complex legacy and hybrid system environments
- Experience supporting mission-critical business systems
- Experience documenting business rules, workflows, technical processes, and integrations
- Experience working with cross-functional business and technical teams
Required Skills: 8-10 years of experience (4 years of education can be included in years of experience)
- Experience inventorying, analyzing, and documenting eligibility determination logic, business rules, batch processes, system interfaces, and operational workflows operating within a hybrid environment that includes Mainframe batch programs, COBOL modules, SQL-based logic, an Enterprise Java web application, Java Web Services, and a Business Rules Engine such as Corticon.
- Ability to produce structured documentation including Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), process flows, rule inventories, pseudocode representations, traceability matrices, interface documentation, and system architecture documentation to support operational sustainability, audit readiness, knowledge transfer, and modernization planning.
Desired Skills:
- Excellent interpersonal communication skills
- Excellent organization and time management skills
- Providing detailed status report updates to project manager
- Strong analytical and documentation skills
- Experience analyzing complex systems and identifying documentation gaps
- Ability to translate technical logic into structured business documentation
- Ability to independently plan and accomplish complex analytical tasks
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