Business Systems Analyst (Medicaid)

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 experience Business Systems Analyst (Medicaid) 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.Working on a major system modernization project for building a new Medicaid application. The Worker will be a part of the team responsible for providing project and product oversight of the Medicaid IT-Contracted Systems efforts, integrated projects, and support of dependent efforts. The Worker will support and provide oversight of documentation and delivery of application functionality as part of the Medicaid IT-Contracted systems applications team. The Worker will assist in creating processes and documentation to ensure a consistent understanding and approach to align with the agency direction for an integrated solution.

**Location of job: 100% onsite. Candidates must be local to Austin, TX**

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.

Years

Required/Preferred

Experience

8

Required

Coordinate with outside vendors to complete projects and service requests; and define, assign, and evaluate their work

8

Required

Develop and/or review of project artifacts such as test cases, requirements documentation and traceability, design and technical specifications

8

Required

Consult on the analysis of a system, troubleshoot problems, and support solution implementations

8

Required

Manage a project’s scope, acceptance, and deployment, and monitor system integration and user acceptance testing

8

Required

Identify a project’s potential risks and difficulties and design strategies to mitigate or avoid them

8

Required

Perform the analysis of client's policies, procedures, and standards to determine their effect on automated systems and system functional areas

3

Preferred

Experience using TFS to create, manage, and maintain requirements throughout the development lifecycle

3

Preferred

Working in an Agile environment (preferably SAFe)

3

Preferred

Experience using Microsoft products, such as MS Office, SharePoint, and Copilot

3

Preferred

Demonstrated understanding of enterprise system components such as user interfaces, data layers, infrastructure, and integrations; knowledge of business rules engines and workflow orchestration; familiarity with Azure‑hosted cloud solutions preferred

3

Preferred

Experience and knowledge of client's processes as well as Texas Medicaid and CHIP systems

3

Preferred

Experience updating portfolio project management tools and management of state level major information resource project information