Business Analyst III

About the Role

This position is part of a broader staffing initiative supporting the ABS Migration Program, a large-scale enterprise transformation effort to migrate core ABS processing capabilities to the TriZetto Facets platform before ABS reaches end-of-service (Q4 2027). The program impacts multiple lines of business, operational areas, integrations, data conversions, and business processes across California and Oregon.

The Business Analysis team serves as the bridge between business stakeholders, technology teams, and the implementation vendor, ensuring business requirements are captured, validated, traced, and successfully implemented. The role operates in a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment, partnering with Health Plans, Operations, IT, Product, Finance, Compliance, Member and Provider Services, and external vendor partners.

Responsibilities

• Oversight and understanding of vendor requirements.
• Business requirement elicitation and documentation for work processes surrounding the ABS migration not captured by Cognizant (vendor handling core migration activities).
• Facilitate and participate in requirements workshops with business and vendor partners.
• Document and analyze current-state and future-state business processes outside of Cognizant’s focus.
• Identify business, operational, and system impacts.
• Review and validate requirements, decisions, dependencies, and risks.
• Support data migration planning, integration discussions, testing, and operational readiness activities.
• Partner closely with business stakeholders, project managers, IT teams, and external vendors to drive alignment and delivery.

Performance Expectations

• Deliver high-quality, complete requirements documentation.
• Maintain clear requirements traceability and dependency management.
• Facilitate stakeholder alignment and timely decision-making.
• Proactively identify risks, gaps, and impacts.
• Successfully support testing, readiness, and implementation activities while managing multiple workstreams simultaneously.

What Makes This Role Unique

• Opportunity to support one of Centene’s largest enterprise transformation programs.
• High visibility with business and technology leadership.
• Exposure to enterprise-scale data migration, integration, operational transformation, and healthcare platform modernization.
• Ability to influence future-state business processes and operational models while working across diverse stakeholders and business domains.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree.

Skills

• Business applications
• Data analysis
• Coordination and ability to lead
• Ability to influence
• User acceptance testing
• Business analysis
• Process redesign
• Business initiatives and complex business processes
• Diagnosing business needs
• Facilitation skills
• Governance
• Healthcare domain knowledge
• Scope management
• Requirements elicitation
• System migration
• Hard skills in user requirements

Pay

$30.83 - 40.83 per hour

Schedule

8 AM to 5 PM

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package, including medical, prescription, dental, and vision insurance.
• AD&D and life insurance offerings.
• Short-term disability.
• 401K plan (all benefits based on eligibility).