IT Business Analyst

About the role

Senior IT Business Analyst position with HHSC (Texas Health and Human Services Commission). Anticipated start date: November 2, 2026. Contract duration: 10 months with possible extension. Location: Austin, TX (hybrid mode). The role typically requires 4-7 years of experience in the field or a related area, familiarity with standard concepts, practices, and procedures, reliance on limited experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals, creativity and latitude, and working under limited supervision with considerable initiative and independent judgment. Interviews will be conducted by phone or through MS Teams.

Responsibilities

• Understand business objectives and problems, identify alternative solutions, perform studies and cost/benefit analysis of alternatives.
• Analyze user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate processing or improve existing computer systems.
• Confer with personnel of organizational units involved to analyze current operational procedures, identify problems, and learn specific input and output requirements (forms of data input, data summarization, report formats).
• Write detailed descriptions of user needs, program functions, and steps required to develop or modify computer programs.
• Review computer system capabilities, specifications, and scheduling limitations to determine feasibility of requested programs or changes within existing system.
• Any experience with healthcare applications is considered.

Requirements

• 5 years of required experience in business objectives and problems and identifying alternative solutions.
• 5 years of required experience in reviewing, analyzing, and evaluating user requirements, operational procedures, and problems to automate processing and/or improve existing computer systems.
• 5 years of required experience in writing detailed description of user needs, program functions, and steps required to develop and/or modify computer program.
• 5 years of required experience in cost/benefit analysis of systems and alternatives.
• 5 years of required experience in analyzing and documenting input and output requirements, such as forms of data input, how data is to be summarized, and formats for reporting.
• 5 years of required high level of sound logic and analytical ability.
• 5 years of required highly developed oral and written communications skills.
• 5 years of required high level of interpersonal skills to work effectively with others, motivate employees and elicit work output.
• 5 years of required knowledge and understanding of Information Technology industry trends, directions and market experience; ability to relate them to own organization.
• 5 years of required knowledge of architectural concepts, principles, and tools relevant to infrastructure, information, applications, organizational structure, etc.
• 5 years of required knowledge of emerging technologies (new to company systems as well as those that are new to the information systems industry).

Skills

• 2 years of preferred experience with Texas DIR Project Delivery Framework and document templates.
• 2 years of preferred familiarity with company's information architecture and information management methodologies.
• 2 years of preferred familiarity with the existing and planned software technology and the global, regional and local software architecture and infrastructure components.

Schedule

Hybrid work arrangement: 2 days remote, 3 days onsite per week (onsite days determined by manager). Position is local-only to Austin, TX.