Sr. Business Analyst

Advanced Systems Design - Montgomery, AL, United States

Advanced Systems Design is seeking a Sr. Business Analyst for our client located in Montgomery, AL.

This position is onsite in Montgomery, AL, and requires in-person availability starting day 1.

Job Overview:

Our client is preparing for a major transition from a monolithic system with 14 different business functions to a modern system and platform. This multi-year “Modernization” 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 client enterprise architecture, defining requirements, and leading the organizational change management effort. The client 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 client 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.

Required Qualifications:

• 7 years of experience as a Senior Business Analyst with 3 years working on business process modelling and management.
• 5 years of experience in MMIS or domain knowledge of Medicare, Medicaid or with a major health care payer.
• 2 years of experience with multi-vendor project.
• Expert/Advanced experience in using Visio, MS Project, Office 365, Webex/Teams.
• 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 Centers of Medicaid, Medicare Service (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…