Business Analyst (BA)
- Category: Et cetera
- Deadline: 01st November 20222022-11-01T00:00:00-0700
- South Carolina
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Direct End Client: State of South CarolinaJob Title: Business Analyst Location: 1801 Main Street, Columbia, SCDuration: 12 MonthsPosition Type: ContractInterview Type: Web Cam InterviewExelare ID: SSCBA534RK Description: 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. Responsibilities:
- 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.
- Conducts efficient requirement gathering session with multiple stakeholders to capture business requirement.
- 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.
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical, business, or healthcare field. Experience in lieu of degree acceptable
- 1 years of business analysis experience IBM Curam software
- 1 years’ experience in government IT projects as a business analyst or related duties
- 1years’ experience eliciting, mining, and documenting business rules, processes
- 2 years Medicaid Eligibility or other healthcare insurance experience
- Superb written and oral communications skills, including the ability to write requirements and Use Cases.
- 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.
- Understanding of business modeling techniques, including the use of graphical process flow software
- Ability to effectively communicate to executive management, line management, project management, and team members.