Healthcare Business Analyst

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Kforce has a Seattle, WA Healthcare client that is actively looking for a Healthcare Business Analyst, in a 6-month contract to hire position to act as a liaison between the business units, project management and the IT developers supporting projects, data management, reporting solutions, and application development. Summary: The team needs to add a strong Business Analyst with great people, leadership, and project management skills. Someone who has great understanding and experience with the best practices of business analysis. All the BAs on the Datawarehouse team need to work with the businesspeople on a regular basis and also have the ability to lead a project, process, discussion, interview, and problem solving, etc. This position will be located downtown Seattle although the expectation is 100% remote and this candidate can be located in any state in the US, as long as you are willing to work PST. Business Analysis:

• Acts as primary contact between IT and all business areas to review, analyze, document business requirements
• Be able to manage small projects on your own; so some specific examples of Project Management work you’ve done
• Define and document application requirements for new applications and application enhancements
• Coordinate the implementation of organization software updates throughout the organization
• Documents requirements for reports/extracts and applications including business process workflow and data flow documentation
• Develops and documents user manuals and tip sheets as required
• Triage and troubleshoot production issues for applications and reports
• Tests the validity of application domain model against customer business processes
• Manages UAT testing with affected business areas to verify content and quality of deliverables

Job Requirements:

REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree in CS or MIT or something similar
• 5-7 years’ experience in healthcare, preferably in the Health Plan, Healthcare Payer, or MCO
• Basic understanding of data warehousing techniques is required, though these are not necessarily very strong technical skills. DBA knowledge is preferred, but not required
• Basic SQL skills are required for understanding of data and data warehouse, such as data profiling, data mapping, data research, and troubleshooting
• Strong experience working with business users, collecting requirements and understanding the health plan concepts and terminology
• Experience leading small projects (looking for some basic to advanced Project Management experience)
• Understanding SSIS (what SSIS is and how it works) is needed

Nice to have:

• Scrum/Agile experience (this is a new area they are stepping into)

Kforce is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.