Business Analyst - Advanced

Business Analyst – Advanced

Lumen Solutions Group Inc. is a technology consulting services company based in Florida. We provide a wide array of experienced business and IT professionals supporting clients from solution design to implementation and support. We specialize in professional IT consulting services, IT staffing, business/IT strategy, business process blueprints, enterprise architecture, enterprise transformation.

Location: Columbia, SC, Hybrid

Job Type: Contract

Job Summary: The principal duties of this position are to evaluate agency needs, as-is and to-be business processes, and technical designs to provide analysis and advice on strategies for information technology solutions and non-technical solutions. The BA will provide detailed analysis and document business processes and requirements. Specific duties include, but are not limited to:

• 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.

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.

Preferred Skills

• General subject matter expertise related to Medicaid or other healthcare insurance (project or operations).
• Microsoft Office Project / Project Server.
• Microsoft DevOps.

Lumen Solutions Group Inc is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to any legally protected status.