IT Healthcare Consultant - Project Manager

Job Description:

Specific duties include but are not limited to:

• Coordinate standard operating procedures for system change efforts with a team of business analysts.
• Ensure change classification evaluation and prioritization occurs according to procedures associated with relevant systems.
• Provide support and guidance to business analyst team members to facilitate the requirements development and management processes.
• Serves as a liaison between the business programs community and the IT organization 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 organizations systems and capabilities.
• Analyzes business partners operations to understand their strengths and weaknesses to determine opportunities to automate processes and functions.
• Assists in 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 enterprises competitive edge.
• Requirements development execution including the elicitation analysis specification and validation.
• Documenting and analyzing agency business processes and recommending improvements.
• Documenting and analyzing data requirements and relationships.
• Participating in the requirements management processes including change control version control tracking and status reporting and traceability.
• Providing requirements interpretation and guidance to technical and test teams.
• Proactively identifying risks issues and action items leading to possible solutions.
• Interacting with internal and external organizations (i.e. vendors State and Federal government agencies State providers and beneficiaries and other stakeholders).
• May make recommendations for buy versus build decision.
• Research business rules requirements and models.
• Maintain business rules requirements and models in a repository.
• Other project-related duties.

REQUIRED SKILLS (RANK IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE):

• 5 years experience in government IT projects as a business analyst or related duties
• 5 years experience eliciting mining and documenting business rules processes
• 5 years of Medicaid experience
• Superb written and oral communications skills including the ability to write requirements and Use Cases.
• Experience and ability to obtain business processes and requirements information by interviewing business personnel and by mining laws regulations and policy documents.
• Knowledge of formal business process documentation.
• Understanding of business modeling techniques including the use of graphical process flow software
• Ability to effectively communicate to executive management line management project management and team members.

PREFERRED SKILLS (RANK IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE):

• General Subject Matter Expertise as it relates to Medicaid or other healthcare insurance experience (project or operations)
• MMIS experience (project or operations)
• Microsoft Office Project/Project Server

REQUIRED EDUCATION:

• Bachelors degree in a technical business or healthcare field. Experience in lieu of a degree year by year is acceptable.

REQUIRED CERTIFICATIONS:

• None required.