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Position Title : IT Specialist
Location: Remote
Job Description :
IT Specialist to join the systems certification team and support the business process analysis and requirements gathering to ensure effective implementation of Technology systems supporting the Medicaid Enterprise Systems. The support will involve the development and documentation regarding various Departmental Information Technology systems for the primary business functions for Medicaid. This documentation will support a wide range of objectives that include user guides CMS certification enterprise architecture and procurement. While some of this documentation will be highly technical most of the documentation must be written for consumption by both technical and nontechnical audiences.
The primary responsibility of this role is to work with the Business Leads Project Teams functional/matrix managers vendors and other stakeholders to develop state specific outcome statements and to ensure that project requirements are aligned to CMS expectations. State specific outcome statements and KPIs must be delivered on schedule and written to ensure successful MMIS/CMS Certification consistent with Program Management guidelines/processes and CMS expectations.
This role will report directly to the Systems Certification Manager and will play a key role in supporting multiple project teams to maintain the relationship in planning and executing CMS certification activities in implementing complex systems in support of NC Department of Health and Human Services programs.
The resource will support the MITA 3.0 State SelfAssessment (SSA) and performing mapping of the States Replacement MES requirements and business processes (which were developed as part of System Design) to the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) MITA Business Processes and Business Capabilities Matrices to determine the MITA 3.0 maturity level of the Replacement MMIS (AsIs Assessment.) This position will also assist in the preparation of the States MITA 3.0 SSA Report. Additionally the resource may assist in determining the States future goals for MITA (technology framework and business processes) by leading meetings with internal stakeholders and vendors to map the States Replacement MMIS processes to the ToBe MITA 3.0 maturity levels. A major component of this role will be the support of the CMS Information Technology Systems certification exercise which is heavily reliant on MITA compliance for the technical architecture for deployed IT systems.
Essential Responsibilities
Additional key functions of this role will be the collection of technical specifications that must be consolidated into cohesive documentation that is both accurate and easy to understand.
Additional tasks are documenting the requirements traceability and participating in user acceptance testing.
Expected Skills: Able to work without assistance; can provide leadership to others; able to manage highly complex work efforts; may have advanced education; may have extensive industry experience.
Description :
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
Capabilities Matrices to determine the MITA 3.0 maturity level of the Replacement MMIS (AsIs Assessment.) The resource will provide technical input to and assist in the preparation of the States MITA 3.0 SSA Report.
Required / Desired Skills:
Skill
Required /Desired
Amount of Experience Required
Candidates of Experience
Short Description
MMIS / CMS certification experience or CMS Medicaid Enterprise Certification Life Cycle process experience
Required
5 Years
State government/public sector experience with health and human services programs (Medicaid MMIS claims processing eligibility HHS analytics)
Required
5 Years
Experience documenting business process flows and related JAD and RFP development/review actions
Required
5 Years
Experience executing against multiple priorities/projects including with knowledge of scope schedule quality and change management
Required
5 Years
Experience documenting status reports standard operating procedures (SOP) policies and procedures CMS documentation related to MMIS Certification
Required
5 Years
Experience with implementation/SDLC methodologies e.g. Agile waterfall hybrid and/or iterative
Required
5 Years
Experience working in Medicaid Health IT Health Insurance environment
Highly desired
5 Years
Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
Required
5 Years
5 years Business Analyst or Product Management experience
Highly desired
5 Years
5 years of requirements gathering experience including experience eliciting requirements from business owners
Highly desired
5 Years
Demonstrated experience using project tracking tools (Microsoft Project (e.g. Jira MITAPulse)
Highly desired
5 Years
Medicaid MMIS claims process or related experience
Required
5 Years
Knowledge of MITA 3.0 and CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration) experience
Required
5 Years
Full Time