Role: Healthcare Business Analyst
Location: Columbia, SC
Interview Process: 1 round, Virtual/Online
Duration of the Contract: 12 months
Possibility for Extension: Yes
Work Location: Hybrid (3 days in office, 2 days remote).
Candidate Location: Candidate MUST be a SC resident or willing to relocate to SC prior to starting the role at their own expense
W2 Contract
IMPORTANT INFORMATION: This position requires the candidate to be engaged exclusively on Maxpath Technologies’ W2 payroll. Engagements via 1099 or third-party/sub-vendor or Corp-to-Corp arrangements are not accepted.
Specific duties include, but are not limited to:
• 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.
REQUIRED SKILLS (RANK IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE):
• 5 years’ experience in government IT as a business analyst or related duties
• 5 years’ experience eliciting, mining, and documenting business rules, processes
• 3 years Medicaid or healthcare experience
• Understanding of business modelling techniques, including the use of graphical process flow software
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
REQUIRED EDUCATION:
Bachelor’s degree in a technical, business, or healthcare field.
ADDITIONAL DUTIES/SKILLS:
-Superb written and oral communications skills, including the ability to write requirements and Use Cases. Very Strong proficiency in English is required.
-Experience and ability to obtain business processes and requirements information by interviewing business personnel and by mining laws, regulations, and policy documents.
-Knowledge of formal business process documentation.
-Ability to effectively communicate to executive management, line management, project management, and team members
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