Business Analyst

Allied Consultants, Inc.•Austin, TX

About The Position

Allied Consultants, Inc is a proudly Austin based firm with over 34 years of experience delivering top-tier technical and business professionals within Texas State Agencies. We are currently seeking an experienced Business Analyst to play a key role within a high-impact technical services team. This position will support the transition of CARE functions from a legacy mainframe environment into modern, modular, Medicaid Enterprise System-aligned solutions. The CARE Program of IT projects includes several concurrent, coordinated workstreams. This position will focus on ensuring a smooth migration of CARE-related business, data, reporting, and integration capabilities from the current location to future locations. The selected candidate must be able to work across business, application, data, reporting, infrastructure, security, and project delivery teams to document current-state business and technical processes, translate business to technical needs, map business and technical dependencies, identify gaps, and work with stakeholders to define future-state business and technical requirements that support continuity of Medicaid operations.

Requirements

8 years of Business analysis experience reviewing, analyzing, and evaluating business systems and user needs.
8 years of Experience eliciting, documenting, validating, and managing business, functional, technical, data, reporting, and interface requirements.
8 years of Experience developing requirements traceability from business needs through design, development, testing, implementation, and operational readiness.
8 years of Experience conducting current-state and future-state process analysis, gap analysis, impact analysis, and dependency analysis.
8 years of Experience documenting use cases, user stories, acceptance criteria, business rules, process flows, and requirements specifications.
8 years of Experience working across business, application, data, infrastructure, security, and vendor teams.
8 years of Experience supporting complex IT projects with multiple stakeholders, dependencies, risks, and decision points.
8 years of Strong written and verbal communication skills, including executive-ready summaries and technical documentation.
8 years of Experience analyzing data flows, interfaces, reports, source-to-target mappings, or system integration dependencies.

Nice To Haves

4 years of Experience supporting legacy system modernization, mainframe retirement, system replacement, or enterprise transformation.
3 years of Experience with Medicaid, health and human services, claims, eligibility, provider, waiver, behavioral health, IDD, State Supported Living Centers, or related public-sector spaces.
3 years of Experience with application development or infrastructure deployment projects.
2 years of Experience with APIs, batch interfaces, data warehouses, reporting modernization, or modular system design.
2 years of Experience with Texas Project Delivery Framework, DIR, state government IT governance, or public-sector procurements.
1 year of Certification such as CBAP, PMI-PBA, PMP, Agile, Scrum, SAFe, or related credential.

Responsibilities

Reviews, analyzes, and evaluates business systems and user needs. Formulates systems to parallel overall business strategies.
Experienced with business process reengineering and identifying new applications of technology to business problems to make business more effective.
Familiar with industry standard business process mapping, and reengineering.
Prepares solution options, risk identification, and financial analyses such as cost/benefit, ROI, buy/build, etc.
Writes detailed description of user needs, program functions, and steps required to develop or modify computer programs.
Provide business and systems analysis in support of the retirement of the Client Assignment and Registration (CARE) system and migration of legacy components to future applications.
Serve as a project-focused technical business analyst translating complex business processes, screens, and data flows into clear, testable, traceable, and technically actionable requirements, building business process flow diagrams and visuals.
Elicit, document, validate, and manage requirements; facilitate collaboration to synthesize information and ensure full coverage.
Build traceability from stakeholder needs to system requirements; challenge gaps and validate assumptions for accuracy.
Facilitate discovery and analysis of CARE functions; synthesize findings and deliver decision-ready analysis.
Act as a bridge between teams, validate assumptions, and proactively address gaps.
Ensure CARE retirement covers all critical dependencies through cross-functional reviews and actionable recommendations.