Business Analyst (BA)

27 Nov 2024

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Direct End Client: State of South Carolina

Job Title: Business Analyst

Duration: 12+ Months

No. of Hours Per Week: 40 Hours Per Week

Start Date: 12/25/2021

Location: 1801 Main Street, Columbia, SC 29201

Position Type: W2 Contract Only

Interview Process: In-Person Interviews are Preferred but Video Interview can be considered

Requirement ID: SSCBA186BR

Description:

State of South Carolina - Department of Health & Human Services (SC DHHS)

Scope of the Project: SCDHHS is seeking a Business Analyst to assist with implement small to large projects.

Responsibilities:

Objectives to Be Fulfilled by Candidate:
  • The principal duties of this position are to evaluating 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 Business Analyst 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.
  • 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/ Experience/ Education:
  • Bachelor’s degree in a technical, business, or healthcare field or experience in lieu of degree.
  • 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. Very Strong proficiency in English is required.
  • 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/ Experience/ Education:
  • 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.

V Group Inc. is an IT Services company which supplies IT staffing, project management, and delivery services in software, network, help desk and all IT areas. Our primary focus is the public sector including state and federal contracts. We have multiple awards/ contracts with the following states: NY, NJ, PA, MD, NC, SC, GA, FL, CA, DE, IL, MI, OH, OR, TX, VA, and WA. If you are considering applying for a position with V Group, or in partnering with us on a position, please feel free to contact me for any questions you may have regarding our services and the advantages we can offer you as a consultant. Please share my contact information with others working in Information Technology.

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  • ID: #23540307
  • State: South Carolina Columbia 29201 Columbia USA
  • City: Columbia
  • Salary: USD TBD TBD
  • Job type: Contract
  • Showed: 2021-11-27
  • Deadline: 2022-01-25
  • Category: Et cetera