Business Analyst Medicaid Systems Modern

MMC Group•Austin, TX

1d•Onsite

About The Position

We are seeking an experienced IT Business Analyst III to support a high-profile Medicaid systems modernization initiative focused on the retirement of a legacy mainframe application and migration of critical business functions into future-state enterprise solutions. This role will serve as a key liaison between business stakeholders, technical teams, project leadership, and vendor partners to ensure business processes, system requirements, integrations, reporting needs, and operational dependencies are fully documented, analyzed, and transitioned successfully. The ideal candidate brings extensive experience gathering and documenting requirements, conducting business process analysis, developing traceability, and supporting large-scale IT transformation projects within complex environments.

Requirements

8+ years of Business Analysis experience supporting complex IT projects.
8+ years of experience gathering, documenting, validating, and managing requirements.
8+ years of experience creating traceability from business needs through implementation.
8+ years of experience conducting current-state and future-state analysis.
8+ years of experience documenting process flows, user stories, use cases, business rules, and acceptance criteria.
8+ years of experience working with business, application, data, infrastructure, security, and vendor teams.
Strong experience analyzing integrations, interfaces, reporting, and data dependencies.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively with technical and executive stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting legacy system modernization, mainframe retirement, or enterprise transformation initiatives.
Experience within Medicaid, healthcare, health and human services, eligibility, claims, provider management, behavioral health, or related public-sector programs.
Experience supporting application development or infrastructure deployment projects.
Experience with APIs, batch processing, data warehouses, reporting modernization, or modular system architectures.
Experience working within Texas state government environments, DIR contracts, or Project Delivery Framework methodologies.
Professional certifications such as CBAP, PMP, PMI-PBA, Agile, Scrum, or SAFe.

Responsibilities

Elicit, analyze, validate, and document business, functional, technical, data, reporting, and interface requirements.
Facilitate stakeholder workshops, interviews, and discovery sessions.
Translate complex business processes into detailed, actionable requirements and specifications.
Develop user stories, use cases, acceptance criteria, business rules, and process documentation.
Analyze current-state business and technical processes.
Create future-state process models and workflow diagrams.
Perform gap analysis, impact analysis, dependency analysis, and risk assessments.
Identify opportunities for process improvements and operational efficiencies.
Establish and maintain requirements traceability throughout the project lifecycle.
Ensure alignment between business objectives, solution design, development, testing, and implementation activities.
Validate assumptions, identify gaps, and support issue resolution efforts.
Support the retirement of legacy systems and migration to modern enterprise solutions.
Analyze data flows, interfaces, reports, source-to-target mappings, and integration dependencies.
Collaborate with application, infrastructure, security, reporting, and data teams to ensure complete solution coverage.
Partner with business leaders, technical teams, vendors, project managers, and executive stakeholders.
Present findings, recommendations, and decision-ready analysis.
Facilitate cross-functional reviews to ensure all critical dependencies are identified and addressed.