CL - Business yst - Advanced

Job Description: SCOPE OF THE PROJECT:
SCDHHS is seeking a Business Analyst Advanced to assist with implement small to large projects.

Objectives to Be Fulfilled by Candidate:
The principal duties of this position are to evaluating agency needs asis and tobe business processes and technical designs to provide analysis and advice on strategies for information technology solutions and nontechnical 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 and the IT organization 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 organizations systems and capabilities.
Analyzes business partners 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.
Possesses an understanding of technological trends and uses this knowledge to bring solutions to business units supported to enhance the enterprises competitive edge.
Requirements development 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).
Research business rules requirements and models.
Maintain business rules requirements and models in a repository.
Other projectrelated 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
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.

Preferred Skills
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 Sills: Skills: Administrative Verbal Communication Skills Yes 5 Advanced Currently Using 6 Years Administrative Written Communication Skills Yes 5 Expert Currently Using 6 Years Documentation/Language Business Process Modeling (BPM) Yes 4 Expert Currently Using 4 6 Years Education Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS) experience No 1 Miscellaneous Interpret business process and business data models No 1 MMIS Medicaid Management Informaiton System Medicaid eligibility system/business operations Yes 3 Advanced Within 1 Year 1 2 Years MMIS Medicaid Management Informaiton System US Code and Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) regarding the Medicaid program No 1 MMIS Medicaid Management Informaiton System 5010 X12 HEALTHCARE TRANSACTIONS No 1 MMIS Medicaid Management Informaiton System Healthcare Insurance IT software/systems implementations No 1 Specialties Business Analysis experience to include data flow diagrams requirements specifications use case scenarios and acceptance testing. Yes 2 Expert Currently Using 4 6 Years