Senior Business Analyst – Medicaid Enterprise Systems (MES)

Senior Business Analyst – Medicaid Enterprise Systems (MES)

Duration: 6 months

Location: Montgomery, AL (Onsite; non‑locals acceptable)

Responsibilities

• Monitor contracts for development, configuration, and operational activities.
• Review and follow defined processes and procedures to support programs with multiple vendors.
• Collaborate with multiple vendors and in‑person or virtual teams.
• Review program, project, or software artifacts developed by vendors, comment on or approve them.
• Interact professionally with executives, managers, and subject‑matter experts.
• Create documents and presentations, schedule meetings, produce minutes, disburse reports, and track artifacts, issues, and action items.
• Provide business and requirements oversight across all phases of the project management and software development life cycle.
• Support multiple software development methodologies and configuration activities.
• Assist with Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) reporting and certification processes.
• Maintain project assets, communications, and track items to completion.
• Identify and report on abnormalities or variances.
• Manage stakeholder expectations, comfortably discussing requirements and scope with users and senior stakeholders.
• Deliver excellent written and verbal communications and presentations.
• Act as a team player, building rapport with colleagues and handling multiple conflicting priorities.
• Apply strong analytical, problem‑solving, data, and business‑process analysis and design skills.
• Adapt and work in a fast‑paced, dynamic environment.
• Manage complexity, demonstrating experience across functions to accomplish large‑scale goals.
• Work independently with minimal direction from the State or team members.

Skills

• Strong interpersonal skills to build team rapport.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work independently with minimal direction.
• Ability to work under pressure and to a deadline.
• Strong analytical and critical‑thinking skills.
• Exceptional research and reporting skills.

Experience Required

• 7 years of experience as a Senior Business Analyst, including 3 years of business‑process modeling and management.
• 5 years of experience in MMIS or domain knowledge of Medicare, Medicaid, or a major health‑care payer.
• 2 years of experience with a multi‑vendor project.
• Expert or advanced experience using Visio, MS Project, Office 365, Webex or Teams.

Experience Preferred

• 10+ years of experience as a Senior Business Analyst, including 3 years of business‑process modeling and management.
• 5+ years of experience in MMIS or domain knowledge of Medicare, Medicaid, or a major health‑care payer.
• 2+ years of experience at large multi‑contractor organizations, including leading centralized or matrixed teams.
• 3+ years of experience as a technical writer.
• Expert or advanced knowledge of all Microsoft Office products, including MS Project and SharePoint.