Senior Business Analyst

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We think. We act. We deliver. There is no challenge we can’t turn into opportunity. Our work depends on a Business Process Analyst Senior (Business Analyst) joining our team to support New York State Department of Heath Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS) activities at Riverview Center in Menands, NY.

At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a Business Process Analyst Senior supporting the Project Management, Business Analysis & Reporting team, you will be analyzing business and technical processes to formulate and develop business information processing systems. You will coordinate with business and technology teams to support the NYS MMIS (eMedNY).  In this role, you should be analytical in your approach to gathering business requirements from all stakeholders.  The successful candidate should be familiar with Agile and Waterfall Development methodologies, their cadence and best practices.

In this role, a typical day will include:

• Participate in a team of business analysts and senior business analysts, some of which follow an SCRUM Agile development lifecycle and others that follow a traditional waterfall development lifecycle
• Work collaboratively with Scrum Masters, Project Managers, Development team members and testers to elicit requirements and maintain requirements traceability through the software development lifecycle
• Report to management on timekeeping, resource allocation, status, risks and issues associated with the business requirements team's work assignments
• Review key development life cycle work products for consistency, completeness, clarity and credibility, which work products include business requirements documentation, data entered into requirements repository tools, reports and requirements traceability matrices
• Develop and maintain internal process documentation and standard operating procedures consistent with CMMI level 3 and program standards
• Maintain security and privacy associated with Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and Protected Health Information (PHI) according to program standards, policies and procedures
• Maintain proficiency in business domain knowledge of the Medicaid Enterprise and the associated Federal, state and local regulations
• Monitor and assess impact of regulatory changes to remain knowledgeable and advisory to the customer on their implications for Medicaid Enterprise business requirements driving system changes

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Management Information Systems, or a related discipline
• Must have five (5) or more years of business analysis experience.  Experience in either Medicaid or other Healthcare Processing Systems is preferred.   
• Expert requirements elicitation skills including independent research and policy analysis, workshop facilitation, interviewing and advising senior leaders in state and local governments
• Deep subject matter knowledge of State Medicaid program business processes
• Broad subject matter knowledge of other Health and Human Services programs
• Exposure to industry best practices across states in business process improvements and/or business process re-engineering
• High attention to detail maintaining Requirements Traceability from the business requirements formulation stage through to user acceptance testing
• Team player able to work well with  large and small teams including a mix of senior and junior analysts, project managers, developers and testers
• Expert communications and presentation skills

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Prior experience as a Business Analyst for Medicaid Management Information Systems in Design, Development, Implementation and in Operations and Maintenance program phases
• Prior experience in transitioning requirements elicitation from a traditional waterfall style software development lifecycle to an agile methodology such as Scrum

WHAT GDIT CAN OFFER YOU:

• Full-flex work week
• 401K with company match
• Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
• Collaborative teams of highly motivated critical thinkers and innovators
• Ability to make a real impact on the world around you