Business Analyst Data Modernization

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Job Title: Business Analyst - Data Modernization

Location: Austin, TX (Hybrid) (In-Person interview required)

Job Description

Job Duties

• Understand business objectives and problems, identify alternative solutions, and perform studies and cost/benefit analyses of proposed alternatives.
• Analyze user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate processes or improve existing business and computer systems.
• Serve as a liaison between the business community and customer IT teams, including Architecture, Project Delivery, Application Sustainment, and other technical teams.
• Gather, document, validate, and manage business, functional, reporting, data, security, and user-access requirements.
• Facilitate stakeholder workshops, interviews, and review sessions to capture current-state and future-state business needs.
• Document current-state and future-state business processes, workflows, gaps, and process-improvement opportunities.
• Develop user stories, acceptance criteria, process maps, data requirements, and other project documentation.
• Support data mapping, data validation, system testing, user acceptance testing, defect resolution, and requirements traceability.
• Coordinate reviews and communications between program, business, and technical teams.
• Prepare solution options, risk identification, financial analyses, and recommendations, including cost/benefit, ROI, buy/build, and feasibility assessments.
• Write detailed descriptions of user needs, program functions, and the steps required to develop or modify computer programs.
• Formulate system solutions that align with overall business strategies and support public health data modernization objectives.
• Apply business process reengineering and industry-standard business process mapping practices to improve business effectiveness.
• Support the Project Manager in maintaining project schedules, managing project activities, and keeping the project on budget.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Candidate Skills and Qualifications

Minimum Requirements

• At least 8 years of experience in business analysis, requirements elicitation, documentation, validation, and requirements traceability.
• At least 8 years of experience in business process analysis, current-state and future-state workflow documentation, gap analysis, and process improvement.
• At least 5 years of experience serving as a liaison between business stakeholders and customer IT teams, including Architecture, Project Delivery, Application Sustainment, and related teams.
• At least 5 years of experience as a Data Analyst analyzing raw data and as a Business Analyst gathering requirements and understanding technology.
• Strong experience supporting public health data modernization initiatives.
• Experience facilitating stakeholder workshops and coordinating reviews between program and technical teams.
• Experience developing user stories, acceptance criteria, process maps, and requirements documentation.
• Experience supporting data mapping, testing, defect resolution, and requirements validation.
• Strong analytical, communication, documentation, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to work independently, manage complex tasks, and exercise sound judgment in planning and accomplishing goals.

Preferred Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience supporting and performing system testing, user acceptance testing, defect resolution, and requirements validation.
• At least 5 years of experience providing business analysis for data integration, data warehousing, analytics, or reporting projects.
• At least 3 years of experience as a Project Manager.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
• Experience with business process reengineering and business process mapping.
• Experience preparing solution options, risk assessments, financial analyses, cost/benefit analyses, ROI analyses, and buy/build recommendations.
• Experience supporting public health data systems, health information systems, surveillance systems, registries, or related healthcare/public health environments.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams, technical stakeholders, and executive-level business stakeholders.