Business Analyst III

Premera is committed to being a workplace where people feel empowered to grow, innovate, and lead with purpose. By investing in our employees and fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous development, we’re able to better serve our customers. It’s this commitment that has earned us recognition as one of the best companies to work for. where your ability to take your project management expertise and creative problem-solving to shape the future of business operations.

As a Business Analyst III, you’ll partner with experts across the organization to uncover hidden processes, drive clarity through operations system thinking, and build a foundation of trusted knowledge that powers onboarding, training, and operational excellence. This role will partner with experts to uncover undocumented processes, partner with instructional designers and trainers to apply systems thinking for clarity and context, and curate a centralized repository of trusted knowledge assets.

This foundation powers onboarding, training, and operational readiness, and ensuring continuity.

The Business Analyst III works to proactively and creatively solve for business needs through broad cross-functional collaboration. Responsible for eliciting, documenting, and defining business requirements, contributing to process development, and articulating the importance of the work within the broader value stream for moderately complex projects and/or initiatives with visible impact to the business and / or systems. This role leverages experience in influencing business decisions to deliver key insights and optimize solutions that have a visible impact to the business.

Translate ambiguous business needs into solid business context and functional requirements for small to large projects with moderate complexity. and best practices. Manage requirements across the lifecycle of a project to ensure end user satisfaction, business stakeholder buy-in, and Identify opportunities and contribute recommendations based on analysis of requirements and future impacts. Partner with SMEs to extract undocumented knowledge (e.g. structured interview and working sessions) as needed to ensure successful implementation and ongoing business and / or systems support when appropriate.

Create business facing test scenarios, test scripts/cases, and mockups of data necessary to conduct testing. Create the traceability between requirements and scenarios to ensure business requirements are met. May monitor and report on testing activity and results. May provide support to other entry and junior level Business Analysts. Other duties as assigned.
A Bachelor’s degree or four (4) years of work experience (Required).Three (3) years of analytical experience in a technical or business environment, including at least 2 years performing business analysis functions (gathering business requirements, documenting process/data flows, and performing gap analyses) (Required).Experience in healthcare or other regulated industries.

Experience in content strategy, technical writing, or knowledge management.

Strong writing and editing skills. Strong communication & organization skills

Ability to work cross-functionally and build rapport with SMEs. Familiarity with instructional design principles and adult learning theory. Ability to think critically and apply systems thinking.

Background in business analysis or process improvement.

Experience with tools such as SharePoint.
** Advanced Requirements Gathering & Documentation
** You will refine your ability to translate ambiguous business needs into clear, actionable requirements for highly complex projects. The role requires leading and facilitating large meetings. You’ll have the opportunity to continue to develop skills in driving consensus, managing diverse perspectives, and ensuring effective solutions are reached.

You will have the opportunity to provide feedback, coaching, and guidance to teammates on business analysis methodologies and best practices, further developing your leadership and mentoring abilities.

You will enhance your skills in creating business-facing test scenarios, test scripts, and mock-ups, ensuring…