Senior Business Analyst – Medicaid Systems Modernization

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze business operations, processes, systems, and user needs to identify opportunities for improvement and technology solutions.
• Elicit, document, validate, prioritize, and manage business, functional, technical, data, reporting, and interface requirements.
• Develop and maintain requirements traceability matrices from business needs through design, development, testing, implementation, and operational readiness.
• Conduct current-state and future-state assessments, gap analysis, impact analysis, dependency analysis, and business process modeling.
• Create and maintain use cases, user stories, acceptance criteria, business rules, workflow diagrams, process flows, and functional specifications.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, application teams, infrastructure teams, data teams, security teams, and external vendors.
• Facilitate workshops, stakeholder interviews, requirement review sessions, and solution discussions.
• Support project planning, risk identification, issue resolution, and change management activities.
• Analyze system integrations, interfaces, data flows, source-to-target mappings, and reporting requirements.
• Assist with testing activities including test planning, test case review, defect management, and user acceptance testing.
• Prepare executive summaries, business cases, status reports, and project documentation.
• Support enterprise application modernization, system replacement, and digital transformation initiatives.
• Ensure project deliverables align with business objectives, compliance requirements, and organizational standards.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of Business Analysis experience in enterprise IT environments.
• Proven experience gathering, documenting, and managing business and system requirements.
• Strong experience with process analysis, process improvement, and business process modeling.
• Experience creating requirements traceability matrices, use cases, user stories, and functional specifications.
• Experience supporting large-scale IT projects involving multiple stakeholders and complex dependencies.
• Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Agile, Scrum, and Waterfall methodologies.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and communication skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience with data analysis, system integrations, interfaces, reporting, and business process transformation.