Business Analyst Advanced

Position Description: The Alabama Medicaid Agency is actively working on the Medicaid Enterprise Systems Centralized Alabama Recipient Eligibility System (MESCARES). The goal is to incorporate significant changes to the eligibility determination criteria for Medicaid and Childrens Health Insurance Program (CHIP) for the Alabama Department of Health. We are looking for an experienced Business Analyst who can support MESCARES by proactively communicating with system users managers subject matters experts and product owners to elicit requirements. Responsibilities includes closely with product owners QA operations engineering business analysts and many other crossfunctional partners. Liaise with internal and external customers and development teams to build products. Elicit requirements and critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources. Decompose highlevel information into details abstract up from lowlevel information and distinguish user requests from underlying true needs. Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs. Develop requirements specifications according to standard templates using natural language. Track progress and review project tasks to make certain deadlines are met. Deliver requirements documents document use case work flows UI write test cases and other deliverables as assigned

Skills Required: Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group executives managers and subject matter experts. Strong analytical and product management skills including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements. Ability to develop and negotiate win/win solutions to project issues. Must be able to work independently on all assigned tasks. Proficiency with MS Office (including Word Excel Outlook PowerPoint Access) and Visio. Fully utilizing Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) to track requirements work items bugs deliverables and builds

Skills Preferred: Strong analytical skills required including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements. * Knowledge of Medicaid and Children s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Eligibility and Enrollment (E&E) Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group executives managers and subject matter experts. Proficiency with MS Office (including Word Excel Outlook PowerPoint Access) and Visio Proficiency with MS Team Foundation Server (TFS) preferred

Experience Required: Seven years experience as an advanced Business Analyst. Experience in facilitating product owners in gathering requirement and possess excellent writing skills to capture and document detailed requirements. Extensive experience with system requirements and their constraints/dependencies. Experience facilitating Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions and requirements sessions. Extensive experience with Software Development Methodology. Process knowledge and experience with Agile Software Development projects. Experienced in developing and negotiating a win/win solutions to project issues

Experience Preferred: Experience with Eligibility and Enrollment(E&E) for Medicaid and Childrens Health Insurance Program (CHIP) business areas. Experience Health Care Industry similar to Eligibility and Enrollment related areas. Working handson with all aspects of the System Development life Cycle Extensive experience with Change Management. Experience with project development methodology and able to apply methodology in a practical manner

Education Required: Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Information Systems Business Administration or other related field. Or equivalent work experience

Education Preferred: Bachelors degree from an accredited fouryear college or university with advance education in Computer Science Information Systems Business Administration fields related to position

Additional Information: Candidate will work 100% onsite in Montgomery AL. No remote work will be considered at this time. In person interviews are preferred however remote interviews can be conducted for nonlocal candidates. Submittals must be of submitting vendor. Submitting vendor can use only one (1) level of subvendor candidates for submittal if necessary. This position has the possibility of converting to merit. Position does not offer sponsorship. This assignment currently budgeted through FY 2024 and will likely be extended Please direct any questions to the Acro PM.