Location: Columbus, OH
Candidate needs to have experience in Medicaid Policy and Operations, and primary responsibilities will include gaining business user consensus via JAD sessions to define interface requirements among disparate COTS applications used to manage Medicaid claims and peripheral interface applications.
Candidate is expected to have experience in technical aspects of the Business Analyst role, and will work with other system vendors and multiple State agencies to facilitate the requirements elaboration and the requirements traceability aspects of the project. You will be assisting a high-energy team in implementing an end-to-end cloud-based, integrated solution for our client in a role with very high potential for career growth.
Your future duties and responsibilities
- Lead Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions to gain consensus among multiple stakeholder groups
- Document business requirements by developing use cases and maintaining requirements traceability across the SDLC
- Act as a senior Subject Matter Expert to enable the client to define standard interface protocols
- Work with the technical team to translate requirements and use cases to effective design documents for downstream development activity
- Mentor and coach junior business analysts
Required qualifications to be successful in this role
- Minimum 10 years in Information Technology as a Business Analyst on large-scale, multi-vendor implementations
- A minimum of 5 years Medicaid (MMIS) or Healthcare payer background is required
- Demonstrated experience in conducting Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions and gaining consensus among multiple vendors and customer stakeholder groups
- Demonstrated working knowledge of XML, SQL and ETL tools to retrieve, view, and analyze data
- Demonstrated experience in developing use cases, managing requirements traceability, and a working knowledge of requirements management repository tools
- Experience in managing and mentoring teams of more junior Business Analysts
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to gain consensus among multiple stakeholder groups
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate abstract technical concepts to a business layperson audience
Desired Qualifications:
- Working familiarity with CMS (Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services) MITA framework and the MECT (Medicaid Enterprise Certification Toolkit)
- Familiarity with HIPPA-compliant messaging formats such as HL7, X12, NCPDP and NIEM
Education:
Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience