Business Analyst

Overview

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.

At Allied Consultants, we value our consultants and are committed to providing an exceptional experience including:

• Highly competitive pay rates
• Local support staff for responsive, personal service
• Comprehensive benefits package, including:
  • Medical insurance (with employer cost sharing)
  • Life insurance
  • A 401(K) plan with company match
  • Flexible spending through a cafeteria plan

Candidates selected for interviews will be subject to a criminal background check and may be required to pass a drug screening, in compliance with federal and state regulations. All offers of employment are contingent upon successful completion of these checks.

Allied Consultants is a proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

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.

Position Summary

Seeking a Business Analyst to 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. This role requires a highly skilled communicator to 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.

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.

Role Purpose

The purpose of this role is to provide high-caliber business analysis and technical integration support for the CARE Program to:

• 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.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements: Candidates that do not meet or exceed the minimum stated requirements (skills/experience) will be displayed to customers but may not be chosen for this opportunity.

ActualYearsExperience

YearsExperienceNeeded

Required/Preferred

Skills/Experience

8

Required

Business analysis experience reviewing, analyzing, and evaluating business systems and user needs.

8

Required

Experience eliciting, documenting, validating, and managing business, functional, technical, data, reporting, and interface requirements.

8

Required

Experience developing requirements traceability from business needs through design, development, testing, implementation, and operational readiness.

8

Required

Experience conducting current-state and future-state process analysis, gap analysis, impact analysis, and dependency analysis.

8

Required

Experience documenting use cases, user stories, acceptance criteria, business rules, process flows, and requirements specifications.

8

Required

Experience working across business, application, data, infrastructure, security, and vendor teams.

8

Required

Experience supporting complex IT projects with multiple stakeholders, dependencies, risks, and decision points.

8

Required

Strong written and verbal communication skills, including executive-ready summaries and technical documentation.

8

Required

Experience analyzing data flows, interfaces, reports, source-to-target mappings, or system integration dependencies.

4

Preferred

Experience supporting legacy system modernization, mainframe retirement, system replacement, or enterprise transformation.

3

Preferred

Experience with Medicaid, health and human services, claims, eligibility, provider, waiver, behavioral health, IDD, State Supported Living Centers, or related public-sector spaces.

3

Preferred

Experience with application development or infrastructure deployment projects.

2

Preferred

Experience with APIs, batch interfaces, data warehouses, reporting modernization, or modular system design.

2

Preferred

Experience with Texas Project Delivery Framework, DIR, state government IT governance, or public-sector procurements.

1

Preferred

Certification such as CBAP, PMI-PBA, PMP, Agile, Scrum, SAFe, or related credential.