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.