IT Healthcare Consultant -Business Analyst

Location: Columbia, SC | Work Arrangement: Hybrid - 3 Days Onsite / 2 Days Remote | Division: Medicaid Systems | Rate: $57.46/hr W2 | Duration: 12 Months + Possible Extension

About the Role

Our client is seeking an experienced IT Healthcare Consultant - Business Analyst to support Medicaid systems and technology initiatives. The ideal candidate will have strong IBM Cúram, Medicaid Eligibility/Healthcare Insurance, Government IT, business requirements, business rules, and process analysis experience.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a liaison between business teams and IT.
• Gather, analyze, document, and validate business requirements.
• Facilitate stakeholder interviews and requirements workshops.
• Analyze current-state and future-state business processes.
• Develop functional requirements, functional specifications, and use cases.
• Elicit and document complex business rules and business processes.
• Analyze data requirements and business relationships.
• Research applicable laws, regulations, policies, and program requirements.
• Support requirements traceability, change control, version control, and status reporting.
• Create process flows and business models.
• Provide requirements guidance to developers, testers, and implementation teams.
• Identify risks, issues, and opportunities for process improvement.
• Support business-process redesign and technology implementation.
• Collaborate with State/Federal agencies, vendors, providers, beneficiaries, and other stakeholders.
• Evaluate technology solutions and support buy-versus-build analysis.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, IT, Healthcare, or related field.
• 1+ year of IBM Cúram Business Analyst experience.
• 1+ year of Government IT project experience.
• 2+ years of Medicaid Eligibility or Healthcare Insurance experience.
• Experience eliciting, mining, and documenting business rules.
• Strong requirements gathering and documentation experience.
• Experience developing functional specifications and use cases.
• Business-process analysis and process modeling experience.
• Experience with requirements traceability and change management.
• Strong stakeholder communication and facilitation skills.
• Experience reviewing laws, regulations, policies, and business documentation.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• State Medicaid Agency experience.
• Medicaid Management System (MMS) experience.
• Medicaid operations/project experience.
• Microsoft Project / Project Server experience.

Pay

$57.46/hr W2