Business Analyst - Advanced

Company Description 
Lumen Solutions Group Inc. is a technology consulting Services company based in Florida. We provide a wide array of experienced business and IT professionals supporting clients from solution design to implementation and support. We specialize in professional IT consulting services, IT Staffing, Business/IT Strategy, Business Process Blueprints, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Transformation. 
 
Role: Business Analyst – Advanced
Location: Columbia, SC, Hybrid
Job Type: Contract
 
Job Summary:
The principal duties of this position are to evaluate agency needs, as-is and to-be business processes, and technical designs to provide analysis and advice on strategies for information technology solutions and non-technical solutions.  The BA will provide detailed analysis and document business processes and requirements.
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.
 
Required Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical, business, or healthcare field
• 5+ years’ experience in government IT projects as a business analyst or related duties
• 5+ years’ experience eliciting, mining, and documenting business rules and processes
• 3+ years Medicaid or healthcare experience

• General subject matter expertise related to Medicaid or other healthcare insurance (project or operations)
• Microsoft Office Project / Project Server
• Microsoft DevOps