Business Analyst - Advanced

Role: Health Care Business Analyst – Advanced

Location: Columbia, SC

W2 requirement

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. 

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.

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 projects as a business analyst or related duties

• 5 years’ experience eliciting, mining, and documenting business rules, processes

• 3 years Medicaid or healthcare experience

PREFERRED SKILLS (RANK IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE):

• General Subject Matter Expertise as it relates to Medicaid or other healthcare insurance experience (project or operations)

• Microsoft Office Project/Project Server

• Microsoft DevOps

REQUIRED EDUCATION:

Bachelor’s degree in a technical, business, or healthcare field.

ADDITIONAL DUTIES/SKILLS:

• Ability to effectively communicate to executive management, line management, project management, and team members.

• Understanding of business modelling techniques, including the use of graphical process flow software

• Knowledge of formal business process documentation.

• Experience and ability to obtain business processes and requirements information by interviewing business personnel and by mining laws, regulations, and policy documents.

• Superb written and oral communications skills, including the ability to write requirements and Use Cases. Very Strong proficiency in English is required.