Senior Business Analyst

Position

Description:

The Alabama Medicaid Agency (AMA) is preparing for a major transition from a monolithic system with 14 different business functions to an interoperable, modular system based on a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). This multi-year "Modularity" project will include working with multiple vendors and may include multiple project methodologies. The project must comply with the Federal standards and regulations such as:
Medicaid Information Technology Architecture (MITA), CMS Seven Conditions and Standards, Outcomes
- Based Certification (OBC), 21st Century Cures Act (Cures Act), Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health act (HITECH act). There are two vendors already in the program and there are three more contracts being actively worked on. The first Vendor to join the project was the Program Management Office (PMO) vendor who is responsible for managing the project, defining the AMA enterprise architecture, defining requirements, and leading the organizational change management effort.

The AMA is moving away from custom software development to procuring software that is configured to meet the business needs. This will require the Business Analyst to be very comfortable understanding the contract, the business, and the requirements. To support this effort, the AMA is seeking an experienced Business Analyst to be a member of the Medicaid Enterprise Systems (MES) team.

The Business Analyst will be working collaboratively with a team of dynamic individuals working in a fast-paced environment. The Business Analyst will be responsible for reviewing and approving artifacts related to the program, project, or software. The Business Analyst must also understand the contract and be able to verify the contract requirements are met. The Business Analyst will be working directly with the business areas to support them and ensure their understanding of the vendor proposed solutions.

This position will work closely with the business areas, vendors, and Project Management Office (PMO) vendor. This position is 100% on site. The employee is expected to work at the Central Medicaid facility in Montgomery AL.

Skills Required:
• Understand contract monitoring for development, configuration, and operational activities
• Review and follow the processes and procedures defined to support a program with multiple vendors.
• Work with multiple vendors and multiple in-person or virtual teams.
• Review program, project or software artifacts developed by multiple vendors and comment or approve
• Interact professionally with a diverse group of executives, managers, and subject matter experts.
• Perform standard project functions such as creating documents or presentations, schedule meetings, produce meeting minutes, disburse reports, track artifacts, issues, and action items, etc.
• Provide business and requirements oversight
• Understand all phases of a project management and software development life cycle.
• Support multiple software development methodologies or software configuration activities
• Assist with CMS reporting and certification process
• Maintain project assets, communications, and track items to completion.
• Identify and report on abnormalities or variances
• Excellent and effective stakeholder management skills - comfortable speaking and discussing requirements and scope with users and senior stakeholders.
• Excellent written and verbal communications and presentation skills.
• A team player with strong interpersonal skills to build team rapport
• Excellent research capabilities
• Ability to multitask in an environment that has multiple conflicting priorities
• Strong analytical, problem solving, data and business process analysis and design skills.
• Ability to adapt and work in a fast- paced and dynamic group environment.
• Ability to manage complexity well and demonstrated experience managing across functions to accomplish large scale goals.
• Understand all phases of a project management and software development life cycle. Have knowledge of multiple project management methodologies.
• A result-driven, independent thinker and initiative individual that is…