IT Business Analyst in Birmingham, Alabama

Overview

Today, SCA Health has grown to 11,000 teammates who care for 1 million patients each year and support physician specialists holistically in many aspects of patient care. Together, our teammates create value in specialty care by aligning physicians, health plans and health systems around a common goal: delivering on the quadruple aim of high-quality outcomes and a better experience for patients and providers, all at a lower total cost of care.

As part of Optum, we participate in an integrated care delivery system that enables us to support our partners as they navigate a complex healthcare environment, Only SCA Health has a dynamic group of physician-driven, specialty care businesses that allows us to customize solutions, no matter the need or challenge:

• We connect patients to physicians in new and differentiated ways as part of Optum and with our new Specialty Management Solutions business.

• We have pioneered a physician-led, multi-site model of practice solutions that restores physician agency by aligning incentives to support growth and transition to value-based care.

• We lead the industry in value-based payment solutions through our Global 1 bundled payment convener, that provides easy predictable billing to patients.

• We help physicians address everything beyond surgical procedures, including anesthesia and ancillary service lines.

The new SCA Health represents who we are today and where we are going—and the growing career opportunities for YOU.

Responsibilities

This position is responsible for the creation of sound, complete business requirements for assigned projects. In additional this position will apply those requirements against our application testing methodology ensuring the end product is consistent with the original intent. This role will ensure business requirements are complete, thorough and tested. In pursuit of complete business requirements, this position will interview the sponsor(s) of the project as well as collateral contributors (stakeholders) of the project to document their needs and desires (requirements). This position is also responsible for helping contributors crystallize their thoughts to minimize the likelihood that key functionality or obvious control parameters are not omitted in the initial requirements document.

The Business Analyst will be expected to facilitate requirements discussions, capture information, document the requirements and obtain sign-off from stakeholders. Additionally this position will lead assigned projects through the testing phase ensuring that test cases are built which exercise the application against original requirements. It will be the responsibility of this position to ensure any new requirements identified in the testing phase are appropriately channeled through the change control process.

The position will require management of risks, completion of status reports, approving deliverables and post deliverable assessment. Significant interaction with SCA leaders will be a requirement of this position so this individual must be comfortable working with the highest levels of senior management.

Key Responsibilities:

Business Requirements

• Lead requirements meetings

• Capture all business needs

• Ensure the requirements match the approved scope of the project

• Detail out the scope requirements

• Produce detailed business requirements document

• Ensure all stakeholders approve the business requirements before the development phase starts

  Communication

• Facilitate team and client meetings effectively

• Attend project team meetings for assigned projects

• Effectively communicate relevant project information to superiors

• Resolve and/or escalate difficult/sensitive information tactfully

  Technical Understanding

• Posses general understanding in the areas of application programming, database and system design

• Understand Internet, Intranet and client/server architectures

• Maintain awareness of new and emerging technologies

• Possess a thorough understanding of information technology capabilities

  Client Management

• Develop lasting business relationships with client personnel

• Communicate effectively with clients to identify needs and evaluate alternative business solutions

• Build a knowledge base of each client’s business, organization and objectives

  QA

• Apply business requirements to SCA’s testing methodologies and create test scripts

• Oversee the application of test scripts to ensure the desired result

• Create a test plan and perform hands-on testing of the applications when necessary

• Log and report progress against the project’s test plan as necessary

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years experience as a Project Manager and/or Business Analyst in an IT environment

• Bachelor’s degree or significant business requirements experience required

• Experience building test scripts and/or test plans required

• Experience with MS Project, Visio and Word

• Exceptional analytical and organizational skills, including a proven ability to adapt to a dynamic project environment

• Relevant certification or advanced degrees a plus

• Proven ability to manage key stakeholders while managing completing priorities

• Strong leadership skills including conflict/issue resolution

• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and written with clients, stakeholders and senior management

• Ability to work effectively with project resources across multiple departments

  USD $85,000.00/Yr. USD $110,000.00/Yr.