What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Business Analyst position at Nova Consulting Concepts, LLC?
This is a remote position.
Position Summary :
This request is issued from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration (OA) / Office of Information Technology (OIT). The position will have a reporting relationship to the Health and Human Service (HHS) Delivery Center within the OA / OIT and the Pennsylvania Department of Health (DOH) Bureau of Community Health Systems (BCHS). State Health Centers (SHCs) currently use a paperbased charting system which limits data quality and reporting capabilities is laborintensive and prone to errors limits accessibility to records to a physical location and has a higher risk of loss or damage to paper records. Transitioning to an Electronic Health Record (EHR) will increase efficiency and streamline tasks improve data quality and reporting increase accessibility to records enhance security of records allow the potential for interoperability with other systems such as PIERS NEDSS and other EHRs and improve the overall patient experience. In order for the SHCs to modernize and / or expand services in the future SHCs need to transition from a paperbased process to an electronic system. This is large scale and complex effort that requires thorough upfront planning with dedicated funding and staffing resources to be successful.
The primary objective of this engagement is to serve as a Business Analyst for the BCHS Electronic Health Records (EHR) project. Responsibilities of this position will include gathering business requirements assessing products and procurement options gathering costs estimates for budgeting purposes and helping to build a proposal to seek funding for an Electronic Medical Records (EMR) / EHR procurement and implementation. The Business Analyst is a senior level resource with specialized knowledge and experience in EHR and / or EMR health informatics and health IT in requirements analysis and documentation test case planning and testing coordinating communications and project tasks while acting as liaison between customer program areas and IT teams. This position will work with BCHS SMEs application developers and DBAs to achieve project objectives delivery dates cost objectives quality objectives and program area customer satisfaction objectives.
- The position s responsibilities are;
Drive identification of requirements across business units and identify substandard systems processes through evaluation of realtime data.
Work with SMEs to construct clinical workflow charts and diagrams; studying system capabilities and writing specifications.
Serve as thought leader for technical business processes developing forwardthinking systems prototypes that promote increased efficiency and productivity on multiple levels.
Perform evaluate and communicate thorough quality assurance at every stage of systems development.
Determine and develop user requirements for systems in production to ensure maximum usability.
Work with testing team to provide SME inputs to the testers and assist in testing when needed.
Assist with development of training documentation and prepare for and / or conduct training when needed.
Maintain documentation on project SharePoint site.
Requirements
Skills and Experience :
7 Years : Experience working with stakeholders directly engaged with technical initiatives working with large complement of team members
4Year College Degree
Experience with EHR and / or EMR health informatics and health IT
Experience creating workflows using formal notation such as the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN)
Knowledge of formal requirements gathering methodologies
Experience developing Business Requirements
Experience developing Functional requirements
Experience developing User (stakeholder) requirements
Experience developing QualityofService (nonfunctional) requirements
Experience developing Report Specifications
Experience developing Requirements Traceability Matrix
Knowledge and familiarity using Microsoft Office Microsoft Visio software design tools and structured query language (SQL) queries and tools
Business Analyst certification through the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA)
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE & Minimum Qualifications : Bachelor\'s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field and ten to fifteen years of experience in infrastructure support, delivery, engineering and architecture, including five plus years of experience in cloud architecture, design, configuration, & support (AWS preferred) or any equivalent combination of experience, training, and / or certification(s). Demonstrated experience with FedRamp and Federal Student Aid. Strong focus on continuous integration and continuous deliver, including experience working on CI / CD pipelines. Advanced experience working in DevOps and DevSecOps environment, including familiarity with SAFe Agile, and Atlassian JIRA. Advanced experience working in Amazon Web Services (AWS), including Billing, Core Technologies, Redshift, ELB / ALB, Performance Management, CloudWatch, and VPCs. Advanced experience with Zaure Core & Tenancy and Billing. Advanced experience with MongoDB . Advanced experience with PostgresSQL and NoSQL. Advanced experience with application container technology, such as Openshift / Docker / Kubernetes. Experience with IT automation tools, such as Ansible. Advanced experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), including expertise in TerraForm, Ansible, and scripting languages such as Python, Bash, Perl, etc. Advanced with MuleSoft, JBoss, Kafka, and API Gateways. Advanced problem solving skills. Written and Verbal Communication Skills. Required Certifications : AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional (AWS) AWS Certified Developer-Associate (CDA) Preferred Experience and Certifications : Experience with DevOps CI-CD Pipeline Tools, such as Jenkins, GitLab, AppCenter, Nexus, Team City, and Selenium Experience with monitoring / logging tools such as New Relic, ELK and Splunk Agile Project Management AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional AWS Certified Security - Specialty
Education
Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
