Senior Business Systems Analyst

Description

You could be the one who changes everything for our 28 million members by using technology to improve health outcomes around the world. As a diversified, national organization, Centene’s technology professionals have access to competitive benefits including a fresh perspective on workplace flexibility.

Position Purpose: Drives the collaboration with business and IT stakeholders to translate complex business requirements into comprehensive functional and non-functional technical specifications, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and solution design.

• Gathers and validates business / technology requirements to establish scope and parameters of requirements and define project impact, outcome criteria, and metrics
• Analyzes and verifies requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards
• Translates conceptual user requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developers / project team
• Creates systems and business process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to developers and/or the project team
• Interprets user requirements into feasible options and communicate these back to the business stakeholders
• Manages and tracks the status of requirements throughout the project lifecycle; enforce and redefine as necessary
• Communicates changes, enhancements, and modifications of business requirements to project managers, sponsors, and other stakeholders so that issues and solutions are understood
• Plans and coordinates user acceptance testing (UAT)
• Monitors and review levels of IT services specified in the service-level agreements (SLAs) with the business
• Research, reviews, and analyzes the effectiveness and efficiency of existing requirement gathering processes and develop strategies for enhancing or further leveraging these processes; quantify potential efficiency opportunities and track accordingly
• Maintains system protocols by writing and updating procedures
• Provides references for users by writing and maintaining user documentation; provide help desk support; train users
• Prepares technical reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends
• Involved in clarifying requirements and implementing solutions that meet the business needs
• Documents business requirements and potential solutions for system functionality and reporting needs
• Performs other duties as assigned
• Complies with all policies and standards

Education/Experience: A Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative or business field (e.g., statistics, mathematics, engineering, computer science) and Requires 4 – 6 years of related experience.

Or equivalent experience acquired through accomplishments of applicable knowledge, duties, scope and skill reflective of the level of this position.

Technical Skills:

One or more of the following skills are desired.

• Experience with Data Processing, Data Analysis, reporting, data extract to flat files, data ingestion from flat files with different delimiters using Python/SQL/Power BI
• Knowledge of Python, SQL, and Power BI
• Knowledge of Snowflake, Teradata, and/or any other RDBMS
• Knowledge of health care payer business functions and operations.
• Knowledge of Agile Software Development; Software Development Life Cycle

Soft Skills:

• Seeks to acquire knowledge in area of specialty
• Ability to identify basic problems and procedural irregularities, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
• Ability to work independently
• Demonstrated analytical skills
• Demonstrated project management skills
• Demonstrates a high level of accuracy, even under pressure
• Demonstrates excellent judgment and decision making skills