Business Analyst

Tellus Solutions

  • Des Moines, IA
  • 4 days ago

    Highlights

    The effort will ultimately support configuration of a modern Google Cloud application platform that enables incremental modernization while designing infrastructure aligned with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) baseline requirements. 8 years of experience eliciting requirements, writing user stories and design documents, defining acceptance criteria, testing outcomes, and facilitating communication between business stakeholders, developers, and project teams.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationDes Moines, IA

    Description

    Overview:
    • The Customer is focused on modernizing its Medicaid and Integrated Eligibility Systems to enable faster policy and program changes, improve continuity of operations, and reduce brittle point-to-point dependencies
    • The current environment includes data passing through multiple legacy systems with several weak links, resulting in data reconciliation failures, downstream impacts, and manual workarounds
    • This engagement will establish a governed enterprise integration and data foundation to address these challenges
    • The initial phase will focus on establishing a Cloud Foundation for a FedRAMP Moderate environment, providing a data integration platform, developing an application modernization strategy, performing a mainframe assessment, creating a product backlog, and defining program governance
    • The effort will ultimately support configuration of a modern Google Cloud application platform that enables incremental modernization while designing infrastructure aligned with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) baseline requirements
    • The Business Analyst will support requirements, business process analysis, stakeholder engagement, data analysis, Agile delivery, governance, and communication across business and IT organizations
    • The role will work with key decision makers, systems owners, end users, executives, managers, IT professionals, and subject matter experts to support core processes and critical business objectives
    • The successful candidate will help translate business objectives and user needs into actionable requirements, facilitate communication across teams, and support delivery of solutions within an Agile framework
    • Create, present, and maintain user stories, acceptance criteria, demo expectations, and design documents in Client-defined systems
    • Create, document, trace, maintain, prioritize, and assess changes to business processes and associated requirements
    • Work closely with key decision makers, systems owners, and end users in support of core processes and critical business objectives
    • Conduct research to obtain data, analyze problems, and advise and recommend solutions
    • Query and analyze data to determine solutions, such as installation of alternate methods and procedures, changes in processing methods and practices, or redesign of products or services
    • Advise client or department heads on alternate methods of solving needs or problems and recommend specific solutions
    • Work within an Agile methodology framework with a focus on delivering value and adjusting rapidly to produce the most effective outcome
    • Work closely with all IT organizations and drive projects to successful completion
    • Facilitate requirements gathering, process mapping, data gathering, and analysis throughout applicable phases of the project life cycle
    • Analyze business strategy and user needs, document specifications, and translate business objectives into system requirement specifications
    • Guide business customers through business case development for new applications and functionality, including cost/benefit analysis and risk/impact analysis
    • Focus on continuous improvement for both business processes and underlying technologies and system support
    • Work closely with other Business Units to identify and deliver Enterprise value
    • Consult with executive-level stakeholders to define business needs or problems
    Required Qualifications/Skills/Experience:
    • 8 years of experience working on large, complex IT systems
    • 8 years of experience eliciting requirements, writing user stories and design documents, defining acceptance criteria, testing outcomes, and facilitating communication between business stakeholders, developers, and project teams
    • 8 years of experience with SDLC procedures and system development methodologies
    • 8 years of experience managing stakeholder expectations and priorities
    • 8 years of experience working within a project governance structure, including methodology, required templates, and reporting
    • 8 years of excellent task management skills, with the ability to balance and manage multiple tasks with changing priorities in a cross-functional environment
    • 8 years of experience prioritizing and managing multiple projects and project activities simultaneously while meeting established deadlines
    • 8 years of experience with Microsoft development platforms and software
    • 6 years of experience working in an Agile environment
    • 5 years of experience with Application Lifecycle Management tools, including Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS), Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), Azure DevOps (ADO), Atlassian Jira, or IBM Rational Team Suite (RTC)
    • 5 years of working experience with Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio or other relational database software
    • 3 years of familiarity with advanced information management practices, data modeling standards, and/or architecture design and analysis
    • Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills, with the ability to interact with a diverse group of team members, including executives, managers, IT professionals, and subject matter experts
    • Experience in process mapping, group facilitation, data gathering and analysis, and phases of the project life cycle, including requirements gathering, design, development, deployment, training, and measuring effectiveness
    • Experience delivering software as part of an Agile delivery team
    • Strong ability to work effectively within time constraints, changing priorities, and independently
    • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Visio
    • Ability to analyze business strategy and user needs, document specifications, and translate business objectives into appropriate system requirement specifications
    • Ability to decompose complex concepts into smaller tasks while maintaining an end-to-end business process focus
    • Ability to work closely with other Business Units to identify and deliver Enterprise value
    • Strong ability to consult with executive-level stakeholders to define business needs or problems
    Required Education:
    • Bachelor's degree in Management Information Systems, Business, or a related field, and/or relevant experience
    Preferred Qualifications/Skills/Experience:
    • Experience providing consulting services to governmental entities
    • Experience working with requirement gathering software such as Azure DevOps, TFS, Jira, or RTC
    • Experience guiding business customers through business case development for new applications/functionality, including cost/benefit analysis and risk/impact analysis
    • Understanding of how to deliver value through realization of benefits, avoidance of cost, identification of new opportunities, and modernization of the organization
    • Experience focusing on continuous improvement for both business processes and the underlying technologies and system support

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