Sr Technical Business Analyst IV - Contract Center Xpert
The Sr Technical Business Analyst (Business Analyst IV) will be responsible for strategic design and mapping of business requirements and solutions to system/technical requirements. In this role, you will work with product managers, technical architects, developers, and stakeholders to help define and organize business and technical requirements for the contract item pricing platform's complex data ingestion and publication processes. This involves interviewing key stakeholders to help refine and maintain requirements and keep product documentation current. Product documentation can also include data mapping spreadsheets and scenario based information. Projects assigned will include high-profile and data-centric deliverables.Ideally the Technical Business Analyst is engaged in best practice development initiatives, provides thoughtful leadership, and familiarity with proven SDLC processes within a Agile/Scrum methodology.Principal duties and responsibilities:
- Evaluate business processes, anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and defining and implementing solutions
- Perform requirement analysis
- Lead multiple business partners and connect with them effectively and promptly
- Flexible enough to work with offshore times in order to set up meetings with offshore technical teams
- Effectively communicate insights and plans to multi-functional team members and management
- Provide vision and direction to the Agile development team and partners throughout the project and build requirements
- Ensure that the team always has an adequate amount of prior prepared tasks to work on
- Gather critical information from meetings with various partners to produce useful reports
- Work closely with internal customers, external IT teams and managerial staff.
- Serve as a liaison between partners, onshore and offshore
- Perform user acceptance testing and functional demonstrations
- Work with the software development manager and project leads to devise project plans
- Aid in prioritizing initiatives based on business needs and requirements
- Identify the dependencies between the projects /business area and prioritize the work accordingly
- Lead ongoing reviews of business processes and suggest optimization strategies
- Staye up-to-date on the latest process and IT advancements to automate and modernize systems
- Conduct meetings and presentations to share ideas and findings
Agile Process Responsibilities:
- When needed, work with team members and partners on feature and story refinement processes which can include sizing, elaborating acceptance criteria and descriptions for user stories
- Champion a definition of ready and Done for team stories
- Assist testing activities and champion Test-Driven Development or Behavior-Driven development practices in the refinement of Feature and User Story acceptance tests
- Perform User story acceptance by testing, participating in demos or reviewing screen shots/ videos
- May need to act in Scrum Master/PM role as resource constraints and workload leveling require
Preferred qualifications:
- 5+ years of relevant IT experience (8+ years preferred)
- Solid working knowledge in data analytics; ability to run basic SQL queries in SQL Server
- Experience working on a high performance SCRUM team
- Great communication and collaboration skills
- Thinks strategically, displays a high degree of emotional maturity, and demonstrates a positive outlook
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Should have excellent documentation and presentation skills
- Comfortable leading development team in dual Scrum Master/BA role as required
Estimated Salary range for this position: $84,000 - $112,000The base salary range represents the anticipated low and high end of the GHX's salary range for this position. Actual salaries will vary and will be based on various factors, such as candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies, and proficiency for the role. The base salary is one component of GHX's total compensation package for employees. Other rewards and benefits include: health, vision, and dental insurance, accident and life insurance, 401k matching, paid-time off, and education reimbursement, to name a few. To view more details of our benefits, visit us here: https://www.ghx.com/about/careers/ GHX: It's the way you do business in healthcareGlobal Healthcare Exchange (GHX) enables better patient care and billions in savings for the healthcare community by maximizing automation, efficiency and accuracy of business processes.GHX is a healthcare business and data automation company, empowering healthcare organizations to enable better patient care and maximize industry savings using our world class cloud-based supply chain technology exchange platform, solutions, analytics and services. We bring together healthcare providers and manufacturers and distributors in North America and Europe - who rely on smart, secure healthcare-focused technology and comprehensive data to automate their business processes and make more informed decisions.It is our passion and vision for a more operationally efficient healthcare supply chain, helping organizations reduce - not shift - the cost of doing business, paving the way to delivering patient care more effectively. Together we take more than a billion dollars out of the cost of delivering healthcare every year. GHX is privately owned, operates in the United States, Canada and Europe, and employs more than 1000 people worldwide. Our corporate headquarters is in Louisville, Colorado, just outside of Denver, with additional offices in Europe, Chicago, Illinois, and Omaha, Nebraska.DisclaimerGlobal Healthcare Exchange, LLC and its North American subsidiaries (collectively, "GHX") provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, genetic information, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by applicable law. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any status protected by applicable law. This EEO policy applies to all terms, conditions, and privileges of employment, including hiring, training and development, promotion, transfer, compensation, benefits, educational assistance, termination, layoffs, social and recreational programs, and retirement. GHX believes that employees should be provided with a working environment which enables each employee to be productive and to work to the best of his or her ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment based on race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, genetic information, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by applicable law. GHX expects and requires the cooperation of all employees in maintaining a discrimination and harassment-free atmosphere. Improper interference with the ability of GHX's employees to perform their expected job duties is absolutely not tolerated. #LI-Remote #LI-BB