Junior Business Data Analyst (Remote)

Paychex is seeking an experienced Business/Data Analyst to work in a dynamic agile team environment. The Business/Data Analyst will be part of a technically diverse Support team supporting Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) via the Integrated Data Repository (IDR) contract. The Integrated Data Repository (IDR) is a high-volume data warehouse integrating Parts A, B, C, D, and DME claims, beneficiary and provider data sources, along with ancillary data such as contract information, risk scores, and many others.

In this role, a typical day will include:

• Continuous and improved information sharing with CMS Stakeholders and IDR users
• Simplified User Onboarding and system access processes
• Enhancing data quality and integration with other systems
• Strengthening query and analytic capabilities through constant and iterative enhancements
• Proactive evaluation and testing of tools/services to better support Analytical use cases
• Solicit, define, and manage requirements and scope for CMS projects
• Create, maintain, and support the distribution of applicable project-related artifacts including requirement documents, user stories, source to target mapping document, System User Guides, Operations Manuals, and Interface Control Documents
• Prepare in-depth flow charts, models, and procedures along with conducting feasibility studies to design possible system solutions.
• Interact with internal and external stakeholders including business owners, developers, and scrum team members.
• Work closely with the test team to ensure that the requirements are implemented and tested as they are written.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in a related business or technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience.
• 8+ years of work experience, with at least 5 years of relevant experience as a Business or Data Analyst.
• Experience working in a business/data analyst team in a complex environment
• Experience soliciting and defining business and system requirements
• Experience with IDR Support project
• Proficiency with utilizing Snowflake to analyze data.
• Proficiency using Atlassian tools (Confluence, Jira) for task tracking and project documentation.
• Familiarity with healthcare claims data.
• Prior experience supporting Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
• Candidate must be a US Citizen or Green card holder to be considered for this position.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with the Agile framework
• Fundamental Architectural Knowledge of Teradata.
• Comfortable developing how-to and other user facing documentation to support the system user base.
• Willingness to explore new tools, analyze new data, and in general want to continue expanding skill sets.