IT Systems Analyst - Basking Ridge, NJ or Hartford, CT

Description UnitedHealth Group is an innovative leader in the health and well-being industry, serving more than 55 million Americans. Through our family of companies, we contribute outstanding clinical insight with consumer-friendly services and advanced technology to help people achieve optimal health. UnitedHealth Group IT provides a diverse and comprehensive array of application design and infrastructure services designed to advance improved health and well-being for our customers, and to benefit UnitedHealth Group employees across the enterprise.  Comprised of the Application Services Group, Enterprise Technology Services Group and the IT Business Services Group, UnitedHealth Group IT has over 7,000 internal and external resources across the globe, and offices in California, Connecticut, Minnesota, New Jersey, South Carolina, Wisconsin and India.
 
Position Description:
This IT Systems Analyst (SA) will collaborate with TOPS Partners in the analysis and development of the business requirements for the claims processing application. The SA owns the development of functional systems design and is responsible for the associated documentation, including walk-through's and sign-offs. The SA will support Development and QA groups before and during the build, test and implementation phase. This person participates in all phases of the systems development life cycle ultimately acting as a subject matter expert for the initiative.
 
Primary Responsibilities:

• Evaluates business requirements and prepares detailed specifications that follow project guidelines required to develop written programs
• Formulates, defines and documents the functional system specifications
• Devises or modifies procedures that solve complex business problems with due consideration for hardware/software capacity and limitations, operating times and the desired results
• Analyzes and revises existing functional documentation
• Generates innovative ideas to resolve problems
• Responsible for meeting or exceeding all defined target goals and milestone dates for the project in order to ensure its overall success
• Assists in training junior level personnel in technical complexities of assigned work

Requirements Qualifications: 
 
Requirements:

• 5-7 years systems analyst experience
• 5-7 years experience writing specification documentation
• 2+ yrs Health Care experience (Claims Processing)
• 3+ years experience working with different verticals: testers, developers, business partners
• 3+ years knowledge of SDLC
• Microsoft Office Tools - Word, Power, Point Visio

Assets:

• Understanding of any of the following: VSAM, Cobol, Syntex, DB2 is a plus
• TOPS experience is a plus
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience 

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere:  equal opportunity employer M/F/D/V
 
UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. All candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment. In addition, employees in certain positions are subject to random drug testing.