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End Client: State of South Carolina

Job Title: Business Analyst - Advanced

Duration: 12+ Months

Location: Columbia, SC 29201 (Hybrid)

Position Type: Contract

Hours Per Week: 40

Interview Type: 1 Round Virtual/Online

Ceipal ID: SSC_BA129_KV

Job Code: 11129

Department: South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services

Scope of Project

The South Carolina Department of Health & Human Services (SCDHHS) is the State Medicaid Agency for South Carolina. The Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS) Replacement and Member Management Replacement Systems projects are the largest Information Technology projects the State will undergo in collaboration with the SCDHHS Project Management Office (PMO). The PMO is responsible for staffing all SCDHHS projects as well as establishing and monitoring IT related governance and standards, which are followed by all enterprise project teams.

The Business Analyst (BA) - Consultant will be assigned to projects for the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (SCDHHS), the Medicaid Agency for SC. Candidates who enjoy working on complex, change-oriented projects will find this position attractive.

SCDHHS is seeking a Business Analyst - Consultant to assist with implement small to large projects.

Responsibilities:

• Serves as a liaison between the business programs community and the IT organization in order to provide technical solutions to meet user needs.
• Possesses expertise in the business unit(s) they support, as well as, an understanding of the IT organization's systems and capabilities.
• Analyzes business partner's operations to understand their strengths and weaknesses to determine opportunities to automate processes and functions.
• Assists in the business process redesign and documentation as needed for new technology.
• Translates high level business requirements into functional specifications for the IT organization and manages changes to such specifications. Educates the IT organization on the direction of the business.
• Negotiates agreements and commitments by facilitating communication between business unit(s) and IT from initial requirements to final implementation.
• Possesses an understanding of technological trends and uses this knowledge to bring solutions to business units supported to enhance the enterprise's competitive edge.
• Requirements development execution, including the elicitation, analysis, specification and validation.
• Documenting and analyzing agency business processes and recommending improvements.
• Documenting and analyzing data requirements and relationships.
• Participating in the requirements management processes, including change control, version control, tracking and status reporting, and traceability.
• Providing requirements interpretation and guidance to technical and test teams.
• Proactively identifying risks, issues, and action items leading to possible solutions.
• Interacting with internal and external organizations (i.e. vendors, State and Federal government agencies, State providers and beneficiaries, and other stakeholders).
• May make recommendations for buy versus build decision.
• Research business rules, requirements, and models.
• Maintain business rules, requirements, and models in a repository.
• Other project-related duties.

Required/Preferred Skills:

Required Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical, business, or healthcare field.
• 5 years' experience in government IT projects as a business analyst or related duties.
• 5 years' experience eliciting, mining, and documenting business rules and processes.
• 3 years Medicaid or healthcare experience.
• Understanding of business modeling techniques, including the use of graphical process flow software.

Preferred Skills:

• General Subject Matter Expertise as it relates to Medicaid or other healthcare insurance experience (project or operations).
• MMIS experience (project or operations).
• Microsoft Office Project/Project Server.

Additional Duties/Skills:

• Superb written and oral communications skills, including the ability to write requirements and Use Cases. Very Strong proficiency in English is required.
• Experience and ability to obtain business processes and requirements information by interviewing business personnel and by mining laws, regulations, and policy documents.
• Knowledge of formal business process documentation.
• Ability to effectively communicate to executive management, line management, project management, and team members.

V Group Inc. is a NJ-based IT Services and Products Company with its business strategically categorized in various Business Units including Public Sector, Enterprise Solutions, Professional Services, Ecommerce, Projects, and Products. Within Public Sector business unit, we cater IT Professional Services to Federal, State and Local. We have multiple awards/ contracts with 30+ states, including but not limited to NY, CA, FL, GA, MD, MI, NC, OH, OR, CO, CT, TN, PA, TX, VA, NM, VT, and WA.

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