Business Analyst - Contract - Columbia, SC

Business Analyst – Advanced (Medicaid & Government IT) Location: Columbia, SC Hybrid (3 days in office, 2 days remote).

Interview Process: 1 round, Virtual/Online Duration: 12 Months Employment Type: Contract Experience Required: 05+ Years

Candidate location: Candidate MUST be a SC resident or willing to relocate to SC prior to starting the role at their own expense.

Project Scope:

The Business Analyst – Advanced will support complex, change-oriented IT projects involving Medicaid systems and member management. The role focuses on evaluating agency needs, analyzing current and future business processes, reviewing technical designs, and documenting business requirements to support effective IT and non-technical solutions.

The selected candidate will work as part of a business analysis team and serve as a liaison between business programs and IT, ensuring that business needs are accurately translated into functional requirements and implemented solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as a

liaison between business program teams and IT to identify and deliver technical solutions that meet user needs.

• Develop a

strong understanding of supported business units and the IT organization's systems and capabilities.

• Analyze

business operations, identify strengths and weaknesses, and recommend opportunities to automate processes and functions.

• Support

business process redesign and documentation for new technology implementations.

• Translate

high-level business requirements into detailed functional specifications and manage changes to those specifications.

• Facilitate

communication and agreements between business teams and IT from initial requirements through final implementation.

• Evaluate

technology trends and recommend solutions that improve business operations.

• Lead

requirements development activities, including elicitation, analysis, specification, and validation.

• Document and

analyze business processes, data requirements, and data relationships.

• Participate

in requirements management, including change control, version control, tracking, status reporting, and traceability.

• Provide

requirements interpretation and guidance to technical and testing teams.

• Identify

project risks, issues, and action items, and recommend potential solutions.

• Coordinate

with vendors, government agencies, providers, beneficiaries, and other stakeholders.

• Research

business rules, requirements, and business models.

• Maintain

business rules, requirements, and models in a central repository.

• Provide

input for buy-versus-build decisions when required.

• Perform

other project-related duties as assigned.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Minimum 5

years of experience working on government IT projects as a Business Analyst or in a related role.

• Minimum 5

years of experience eliciting, analyzing, mining, and documenting business rules and business processes.

• Minimum 3

years of Medicaid experience.

Preferred Skills: Subject matter expertise in Medicaid or other healthcare insurance, through project or operational experience.

• Experience

with Medicaid Management Information Systems (MMIS), through project or operational experience.

• Experience

with Microsoft Office Project or Project Server.

Education: Bachelor's degree in a technical, business, or healthcare-related field.

• Relevant

professional experience may substitute for the degree on a year-for-year basis.