Business Analyst

Title: Business analyst 3 Location: Austin, TX – Onsite ( ONLY LOCAL TO TX CONSULTANTS) Long Term project JOB DESCRIPTION • 8 or more years of experience, relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals, independently performs a variety of complicated tasks, a wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected • Min 5 years of experience, served as a liaison between the Business community and Customer IT Teams (i.e., Architecture, Project Delivery, Application Sustain, etc.). Strong experience as a Data Analyst in analyzing raw data, and as a Business Analyst in requirements gathering, understanding technology, and any project management experience with PMP are a huge plus • Reviews, analyzes, and evaluates business systems and user needs. Formulates systems to parallel overall business strategies. • Experienced with business process reengineering and identifying new applications of technology to business problems to make business more effective. • Familiar with industry standard business process mapping, and reengineering. Prepares solution options, risk identification, and financial analyses such as cost/benefit, ROI, buy/build, etc. Writes detailed description of user needs, program functions, and steps required to develop or modify computer programs. • Working on a major system modernization project for building a new Medicaid application. • The Consultant will be a part of the team responsible for providing project and product oversight of the Medicaid IT-Contracted Systems efforts, integrated projects, and support of dependent efforts. Required: • Coordinate with outside vendors to complete projects and service requests; and define, assign, and evaluate their work • Develop and/or review of project artifacts such as test cases, requirements documentation and traceability, design and technical specifications • Consult on the analysis of a system, troubleshoot problems, and support solution implementations • Manage a project’s scope, acceptance, and deployment, and monitor system integration and user acceptance testing • Identify a project’s potential risks and difficulties and design strategies to mitigate or avoid them • Perform the analysis of policies, procedures, and standards to determine their effect on automated systems and system functional areas Preferred: • Working in an Agile environment (preferably SAFe) • Experience using Microsoft products, such as MS Office, SharePoint, and Copilot • Demonstrated understanding of enterprise system components such as user interfaces, data layers, infrastructure, and integrations; knowledge of business rules engines and workflow orchestration; familiarity with Azure hosted cloud solutions preferred • Experience updating portfolio project management tools and management of major information resource project information