INF-16-0251 Team Lead Business Analyst

Truven Health Analytics, an IBM Company

$80K — $110K *
Healthcare
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2+ years of experience leading Business Analysts for data warehouse projects.
  • 4+ years of experience as a business analyst or in healthcare payer systems.
  • 2+ years experience working with Medicaid data.
  • Strong communication skills for conveying complex concepts clearly.
  • Solid understanding of Business Intelligence and Data Visualization techniques.

Responsibilities

  • Lead customers through all stages of the SDLC for BI solutions.
  • Define and document business requirements, ensuring traceability throughout the SDLC.
  • Organize and facilitate meetings with stakeholders to gather and clarify requirements.
  • Facilitate data mapping exercises to align source data with project goals.
  • Document existing business processes and design future state processes.
  • Resolve scope and business requirement issues across project teams.
  • Support data quality programs to ensure the validity of data.
  • Develop testing plans and assist in user acceptance testing execution.

Benefits

  • On-site support for clients and users for reporting and analytic inquiries.
  • Training opportunities for end users.
  • Hands-on involvement in enhancing healthcare reporting solutions.
Full Job Description
This role will be located at the Client site in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Position Summary

Oversees day-to-day activities of the business analyst team responsible for specifying business requirements to support the technical design and application development of healthcare reporting solutions.

Essential Responsibilities
  • Lead the customer through steps of SDLC associated with the delivery of BI solutions; Requirements, Design, Development, System Test, User Acceptance Test and Operations.
  • Define and document business requirements in Requirements Analysis Document that can be verified throughout the SDLC using Requirements Traceability Matrix.
  • Organize and facilitate requirement analysis meetings with user groups, department heads and project stakeholders to define business requirements.
  • Facilitate source to target data mapping exercises for data sources.
  • Document "as is" business process models and define "to be" business process models.
  • Clarify issues relating to scope and business requirements for project team (including technical implementation team, project management and client management).
  • Facilitate data quality program to evaluate, report and remediate data quality issues.
  • Develop test plans to verify system meets business requirements and aid user community in user acceptance test planning and execution.
  • Provide on-site support (e.g., client inquiries, requests for ad hoc reporting assistance, miscellaneous research, advice on analytic methods) and training to end users.
  • Define business requirements for change requests, investigate issues/defects and define remediation requirements.
  • Conduct business analysis to assess patterns/conditions in healthcare data to drive programs and decision making that lower cost and improve healthcare outcomes.
  • Conduct user group forums to share analytic methods and findings.


Qualifications

REQUIRED Skills and Experience
  • 2+ years experience leading Business Analysts for data warehouse projects.
  • 4+ years experience as a business analyst OR healthcare payer system experience.
  • 2+ years experience working with Medicaid data.
  • Demonstrated ability to convey complex ideas in an easily understood manner to guide audience through written or verbal communications.
  • Demonstrated understanding of Business Intelligence and Data Visualization.
  • Experience building requirements for new application development, understanding of SDLC.
  • Experience in applying health analysis methods and measures utilizing statistical methods, data mining, predictive modeling, etc.
  • Demonstrated ability to understand industry issues and problems, relate them to clients' needs, and propose appropriate solutions.
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills and presentation skills.
  • Excellent organizational skills, ability to take initiative and work independently, ability to collaborate and build consensus.

PREFERRED Skills and Experience
  • 6+ years experience as business analyst for data warehouse OR business intelligence projects.
  • Experience with large scale system development.
  • Knowledgeable in technology, specifically data warehousing.
  • Competent in at least one BI technology (e.g., Cognos, Business Objects).
  • Competent in at least one analytics technology (e.g., SAS, R, SPSS).
  • Competent in at least one geospatial technology (e.g., mapinfo, ESRI).
  • Understanding of both technical and business process MITA requirements.

Education / Certifications
  • Bachelor's Degree in Health Administration, Economics, Information Systems, Biostatistics, Applied Mathematics OR related field.


Additional Information

If you meet ALL of the minimum requirements of the position and are interested, please apply directly on our website at: http://bit.ly/Truven_INF-16-00251

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