We are seeking an IT Business Analyst for a 6-month contract role (with the option to extend) in Denver, CO. This 6-month contract role will be based out of Denver, CO. This role can work remotely within the State of Colorado. Due to the need to pick up equipment and potential onsite meetings in the future, this role will require the selected candidate to be based out of Colorado.
In this role, you will work with internal and external stakeholders with an end goal to advocate for the needs of people that are impacted by health programs as they relate to data systems. This position will work with several cross-functional project teams, including coordinating with resources from multiple departments, to confirm workflows and needs for configuration, management, and reporting.
Primary job duties include the following:
- Develop a deep understanding of the organization, its strategy, constraints, and goals in order to facilitate discussions and generate effective solutions to the problems and projects at hand.
- Develop, with little guidance or support, a detailed understanding of all current data systems (which include several healthcare networks, claims, manage service organizations, etc)
- Participate as a key member of the Product Delivery Team.
- Gives guidance to leadership and stakeholders within the health community, as well as to other entities as it relates to areas of expertise in data, service coding, financial and compliance issues.
- Estimating business analysis work efforts and deadlines on complex IT projects.
- Creatively and collaboratively work with disparate groups each with their own, and potentially differing, interests and priorities.
- Facilitate collaborative workshops that involve those impacted by a project and other stakeholders to understand business process, workflows and current pain points. This includes a comprehensive understanding of the goal of each new project, and all systematic changes that must be made in order to successfully complete each project.
- Works closely with the Financial Team to identify and document financial and contractual reporting needs. Includes business rules, workflows and gaps based on observation of, and exploration into, payment models and recommendations, contract reporting requirements, service coverage, daily operations and communications with this team.
- Works closely with the Data & Evaluation Team to identify and document data required for financial, contractual, utilization, and various annual reporting
- Identifies and documents specialized reporting and dashboards needed in order for the Data & Evaluation team to publish utilization and various other public-facing information and data.
- Work closely with the Product Owner and Portfolio Manager to translate business requirements into user stories for development and testing activities.
- Support the Product Owner in maintaining and prioritizing the product backlog according to business value and alignment with strategy.
- Identifies and documents required analytical tools, data and utilization reports that will monitor organizational progress against health outcomes measures and contract compliance.
- Creates detailed business requirements that are passed on to the Quality Assurance Team, Data Analysts, contractors, and/or software vendors for design, development, testing and implementation.
- Create and maintain a business requirement documentation library for all new data systems and enhancements to legacy systems.
- At least five years of experience applying BA methodology in complex environments.
- At least three years of experience leading organizations through business analysis and requirements gathering across organizational silos.
- Experience working collaboratively with cross-functional teams across the product delivery lifecycle using modern software development practices such as agile or lean.
- Basic understanding of reporting abilities of linking data systems with Tableau.
Preferred Qualifications
- Expertise in technical writing and construction of protocols and requirement documentation.
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication and public speaking skills.
- Self-motivated and able to effectively manage time and tasks.
- Ability to solve complex problems, participate in continuous improvement, and adapt to the ideas of others.
- Experience with MMIS, Medicaid specific to Rate setting, billing and claims, and Financial Business Analysis is a huge plus
- Experience in Agile and/or Health IT environment
Highly Desirable Characteristics
- Ability to work effectively with key stakeholders, speak and write authoritatively and compellingly, resolve communication problems, and negotiate and manage competing interests
- Ability to work well with stakeholders regardless of position and authority, contribute to workgroups and committees, and adhere to clear lines of responsibility and accountability
This 6-month contract role will be based out of Denver, CO. This role can work remotely within the State of Colorado. Due to the need to pick up equipment and potential onsite meetings in the future, this role will require selected candidate to be based out of Colorado.
