Senior Business Analyst

Position : Senior Business Analyst

Duration : 12 Months with extension

Location : Montgomery, Alabama (Onsite From day One)

Job Description :

The Alabama Medicaid Agency (AMA) requires a Senior Business Analyst (SBA) to support the Alabama Medicaid Management Information System (AMMIS) operations. To support this effort, the AMA is seeking an experienced Senior Business Analyst to be a member of the AMMIS operations team. The Senior Business Analyst must be very comfortable understanding the contracts, the business functions, and the requirements for multiple contractors.

The AMA is moving away from a monolithic system with 14 different business functions to an interoperable, modular system based on a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Although this position will not be part of the transition project, the position and responsibilities will be evolving as we move farther down this path.

The Senior Business Analyst will be responsible for reviewing, understanding, and commenting on user documentation, system documentation, system change request, detail system design documents, test results, approving artifacts such as related to the program, project, or software. The Senior Business Analyst must also understand contracts, contract monitoring and be able to verify the contract requirements are met. The Senior Business Analyst will be working directly to support the business areas and ensure their understanding of the contractor responsibilities and activities.

The Senior Business Analyst must be very knowledgeable of Federal standards and regulations. These standards and regulations include but are not limited to : Medicaid Information Technology Architecture (MITA), CMS Seven Conditions and Standards, Outcomes- Based Certification (OBC), 21st Century Cures Act (Cures Act), Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health act (HITECH act).

Skills Required

Project Management

• Strong understanding of project management framework and software development life cycle.
• Handle competing priorities in a dynamic environment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Ability to perform business process analysis and contribute towards developing effective solutions. Excellent research capabilities.
• Ability to manage complexity well and demonstrated experience managing across functions to accomplish large scale goals.

Stakeholder Engagement & Communication

Operational Support and Oversight

Design and Development

Change Management

Federal Reporting and Compliance

Policy and Procedures

Preferred skills