Objectives to Be Fulfilled by Candidate :
The principal duties of this position are evaluating agency needs, as-is and to-be business processes, and technical designs providing analysis and advice on strategies for information technology and non-technical solutions.
The consultant 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 to provide technical solutions to meet user needs.
- Analyzes business 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.
- Development of requirements, including the elicitation, analysis, specification and validation.
- Documents and analyzes agency business processes and recommends improvements.
- Documents and analyzes data requirements and relationships.
- Provides requirements interpretation and guidance to technical and test teams.
- Proactively identifies risks, issues, and action items leading to possible solutions.
- Researches and maintains business rules, requirements, and models in a repository.
- Other project-related duties.
REQUIRED SKILLS (RANK IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE) :
- years' experience in government IT projects as a business analyst or related duties
- years' experience eliciting, mining, and documenting business rules, processes
- 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 (RANK IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE) :
- 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
- An understanding of technological trends to bring solutions to business units supported to enhance the enterprise's competitive edge.
REQUIRED EDUCATION :
Bachelor's degree in a technical, business, or healthcare field or equivalent experience.
years of relevant work experience may be substituted for year of education
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