Business Analyst - BA

Position: Business Analyst 3 - BA 26-06698
Job Title: Business Analyst 3
Location: Austin, TX (Onsite/Hybrid as applicable)
Duration: Contract
Position Overview

We are seeking a highly experienced Business Analyst 3 to support a large-scale enterprise modernization initiative involving the retirement of a legacy system and migration to modern, modular platforms. This role requires a strong analytical thinker and communicator who can translate complex business processes, data flows, and system interactions into clear, actionable, and testable requirements.

The ideal candidate will work across multiple cross-functional teams including business stakeholders, application development, data, infrastructure, and security to ensure seamless transition of legacy capabilities into future-state solutions.
Key Responsibilities

• Review, analyze, and evaluate business systems and user needs.
• Elicit, document, validate, and manage business, functional, technical, data, reporting, and interface requirements.
• Develop and maintain full requirements traceability across the project lifecycle (design, development, testing, implementation).
• Conduct current-state and future-state analysis, including gap, impact, and dependency analysis.
• Translate complex business processes and workflows into clear documentation, including:
  • Use cases
  • User stories
  • Acceptance criteria
  • Business rules
  • Process flow diagrams
• Analyze system integrations, data flows, reporting structures, and dependencies.
• Facilitate collaboration across cross-functional teams to ensure alignment and completeness of requirements.
• Identify risks, assumptions, and gaps; provide mitigation strategies and recommendations.
• Prepare decision-ready artifacts including solution options, cost/benefit analysis, and ROI considerations.
• Support enterprise transformation efforts including legacy system retirement and modernization initiatives.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in business analysis, including evaluating business systems and user needs.
• 8+ years of experience in:
  • Requirements elicitation, documentation, and validation
  • Requirements traceability across full SDLC
  • Process analysis (current/future state, gap, impact, dependency)
  • Documentation of use cases, user stories, and business rules
• Proven experience working with cross-functional teams (business, application, data, infrastructure, security, vendors).
• Strong experience supporting complex IT projects with multiple stakeholders and dependencies.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level reporting.
• Experience analyzing:
  • Data flows and system integrations
  • Interfaces and reporting systems
  • Source-to-target data mappings

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in legacy system modernization, mainframe retirement, or enterprise transformation initiatives.
• Background in public sector or healthcare domains (e.g., Medicaid, eligibility systems, claims, providers, behavioral health).
• Experience with application development or infrastructure deployment projects.
• Familiarity with:
  • APIs, batch processing, and data warehouses
  • Reporting modernization and modular system design
• Knowledge of state government frameworks or IT governance practices.
• Relevant certifications such as:
  • CBAP, PMI-PBA, PMP
  • Agile, Scrum, or SAFe

Key Skills

• Business Process Reengineering
• Requirements Management & Traceability
• Data & System Analysis
• Stakeholder Communication & Facilitation
• Risk Identification & Mitigation
• Technical Documentation & Visualization

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About Navitas Partners, LLC: It is a certified WBENC and one of the fastest-growing healthcare staffing firms in the US providing Medical, Clinical and Non-Clinical services to numerous hospitals. We offer the most competitive pay for every position we cater. We understand this is a partnership. You will not be blindsided, and your salary will be discussed upfront.