Business Analyst // Local to Iowa

Engagement Type

Contract

Short Description

Division

of Information Technology (DoIT) is seeking candidate for documenting home-grown

systems in IFA\\IEDA\\ITG for future modernization.

Complete Description

The Iowa Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is

focused on modernizing its Medicaid and Integrated Eligibility Systems to

enable faster policy and program changes, improve continuity of operations, and

reduce brittle point-to-point dependencies. Currently, data passes through

multiple legacy systems with several weak links, leading to data reconciliation

failures, downstream impacts, and manual workarounds. To address these

challenges, the Customer would like to engage with Google Cloud Professional

Services (PSO) to establish a governed enterprise integration and data

foundation. This initial phase will focus on establishing a Cloud Foundation

for a FedRAMP Moderate environment, providing a data integration platform, an

application modernization strategy, performing a mainframe assessment,

providing a product backlog, and defining program governance. Ultimately, this

effort aims to configure a modern Google Cloud application platform, allowing

for incremental modernization while designing infrastructure aligned with

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) baseline requirements.



Responsibilities of business analyst role include but

are not limited to:





Creating, presenting and maintaining user stories,

acceptance criteria, demo expectations and design documents in DHS defined

systems.





Creating/documenting, tracing, maintaining,

prioritizing, and assessing changes to business processes and the associated

requirements





Working closely with key decision makers, systems

owners and end users in support of core processes and critical business

objectives





Conducting research to obtain data, analyzing problems

to advise and recommend solutions





Querying and analyzing data to determine solutions,

such as installation of alternate methods and procedures, changes in processing

methods and practices, or redesign of products or services





Advising client or department heads on alternate

methods of solving needs or problems, and recommending specific solutions





Working within an agile methodology framework with a

focus on delivering value and adjusting rapidly to produce the most effective

outcome





Working closely with all IT organizations and driving

projects to successful completion





A successful candidate for this role is expected to

possess the following skills and experience:





Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written

communication skills and the ability to interact with a diverse group of team

members, including executives, managers, IT professionals, and subject matter

experts





Experience in process mapping, group facilitation, data

gathering and analysis, and phases of project life cycle (requirements

gathering, design, development, deployment, training, and measuring

effectiveness.)





Experience delivering software as part of an agile

delivery team





Strong ability to work effectively within time

constraints, changing priorities, and independently





Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite including Excel,

Word, PowerPoint and Visio





Experience with requirement gathering software such as

Azure DevOps, TFS, JIRA, or RTC.





Analyze business strategy and user needs, document

specifications, and translate business objectives into proper system

requirement specifications





Guide business customers through business case

development for new applications/functionality, including cost / benefit

analysis and risk / impact analysis





Understanding of how to deliver value through

realizations of benefits, avoidance of cost, identify new opportunities and

modernizing the organization





Focus on continuous improvement for both the business

process and the underlying technologies and system support





Strong ability to decompose complex concepts into

smaller tasks while maintaining end-to-end business process focus





Work closely with other Business Units to identify and

deliver Enterprise value





Experience providing consulting services to

governmental entities





Skilled at consulting with executive-level stakeholders

to define business needs or problems



Requirements





Experience working on large, complex IT systems (8

years)





Experience eliciting requirements, writing user stories

and design documents, defining acceptance criteria, testing outcomes, and

facilitating communication between business stakeholders, developers, and

project teams. (8 years)





Experience with SDLC procedures and system development

methodologies. (8 years)





Experience managing stakeholder expectations and

priorities. (8 years)





Experience working within a project governance

structure (methodology, required templates, and reporting). (8 years)





Excellent task management skills. Ability to balance

and manage multiple tasks, with changing priorities, in a cross-functional

environment. (8 years)





Ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects, and

project activities, simultaneously, while meeting established deadlines. (8

years)





Experience with Microsoft development platforms and

software. (8 years)





Experience in an Agile environment. (6 years)





Experience with Application Lifecycle Management [ALM]

tools; Microsoft s Team Foundation Server (TFS), Visual Studio Team Services

(VSTS), Azure DevOps (ADO), Atlassian s Jira, IBM s Rational Team Suite (RTC).

(5 years)





Working experience with Microsoft SQL Server Management

Studio or other relational database software. (5 years)





Familiarity with advanced information management

practices, data modeling standards, and/or architecture design and analysis. (3

years)





Bachelor s degree in management information systems,

Business, or related field, and/or relevant experience (8 years)

Required/Desired Skills

Skill	Required/Desired	Amount	of Experience
Experience working on large, complex IT systems	Required	8.0	Years
Experience with Data Mapping and Data Modeling	Required	5.0	Years
Experience eliciting requirements, writing user stories and design documents, defining acceptance criteria, testing outcomes, and facilitating	Required
communication between business stakeholders, developers, and project teams.	Required	8.0	Years
Experience with SDLC procedures and system development methodologies.	Required	8.0	Years
Experience managing stakeholder expectations and priorities.	Required	8.0	Years
Experience working within a project governance structure (methodology, required templates, and reporting).	Required	8.0	Years
Excellent task management skills. Ability to balance and manage multiple tasks, with changing priorities, in a cross-functional environment.	Required	8.0	Years
Ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects, and project activities, simultaneously, while meeting established deadlines.	Required	8.0	Years
Experience with Microsoft development platforms and software.	Required	8.0	Years
Experience in an Agile environment.	Required	6.0	Years
Experience with Application Lifecycle Management [ALM] tools; Microsoft s Team Foundation Server (TFS), Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS),	Required		Years
Azure DevOps (ADO), Atlassian s Jira, IBM s Rational Team Suite (RTC).	Required	5.0	Years
Working experience with Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio or other relational database software.	Required	5.0	Years
Familiarity with advanced information management practices, data modeling standards, and/or architecture design and analysis.	Required	3.0	Years
Bachelor s degree in management information systems, Business, or related field, and/or relevant experience	Required	8.0	Years