Job Title: Business Analyst
Location: Columbia, SC 29201
Work Arrangement: Hybrid – 3 days onsite and 2 days remote
Contract Duration: 12 months

Key Responsibilities
Serve as the liaison between business program teams and the IT organization.
Evaluate agency business needs, current processes, future-state processes, and proposed technical designs.
Facilitate requirements-gathering sessions with multiple business and technical stakeholders.
Elicit, analyze, document, validate, and manage detailed business and functional requirements.
Translate high-level business requirements into clear functional specifications for technical teams.
Document business rules, use cases, data requirements, process flows, requirements, and business models.
Research business rules and requirements by reviewing laws, regulations, policies, and procedural documents.
Analyze business operations to identify weaknesses, improvement opportunities, and potential areas for automation.
Support business process redesign and documentation related to new technologies and system enhancements.
Maintain business rules, requirements, and business models in a centralized repository.
Participate in requirements management activities, including change control, version control, traceability, tracking, and status reporting.
Provide requirements interpretation and guidance to development, technical, and testing teams.
Manage changes to functional specifications throughout the project lifecycle.
Facilitate communication and agreements between business teams and IT teams from initial requirements through implementation.
Identify project risks, issues, dependencies, and action items and assist with developing appropriate solutions.
Analyze data requirements, data relationships, and system interactions.
Interact with vendors, state and federal agencies, healthcare providers, beneficiaries, and other internal and external stakeholders.
Provide recommendations regarding build-versus-buy decisions when appropriate.
Perform additional project-related business analysis responsibilities as assigned.
Required Skills and Experience
Bachelor's degree in a technical, business, healthcare, or related field.
Minimum 1 year of business analysis experience involving IBM Cúram software.
Minimum 1 year of experience supporting government IT projects as a Business Analyst or in a closely related role.
Minimum 1 year of experience eliciting, researching, mining, analyzing, and documenting business rules and business processes.
Minimum 2 years of experience with Medicaid eligibility, healthcare insurance, or a closely related healthcare domain.
Knowledge of formal business process documentation methods.
Experience writing business requirements, functional requirements, and use cases.
Experience gathering process and requirements information through stakeholder interviews.
Experience reviewing laws, regulations, policies, and procedural documents to identify business requirements.
Understanding of business modeling techniques and graphical process-flow tools.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Strong English-language proficiency.
Ability to communicate effectively with executive management, line management, project managers, technical teams, and business stakeholders.

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