Senior Business System Analyst
Job Description:
- Analyzes business needs, documents requirements and translates needs into functional, non-functional and/or technical specifications.
- Delivers requirements, performs analysis, and evaluates downstream business, systems, process, and/or organizational impacts.
- Plans and assists with oversight of testing processes and activities including defect identification and resolution.
- Analyzes charts and/or diagrams of the problem to be programmed and defines system requirements in terms of system capabilities.
- Develops or assists in the development of work plans, time schedules, and project task items and schedules and assists with estimating resource needs for analysts, programmers, user personnel, consultants, equipment, and prepares routine project status reports.
- Assists in the development of project cost and benefit estimates to establish project worth including the development of alternative considerations. This will result in recommendations for the installation of new systems or equipment, or to change existing systems and equipment.
- Advises the appropriate people on the implications of existing IT systems that can be applied to a problem. Identifies risks and issues, and seeks approval on complex matters.
- Checks, instructs, assigns work, and otherwise functionally directs technical staff in order to achieve desired end-results on complex problems.
- Provides subject matter expert and operational support to internal business partners.
- Performs all other related duties as assigned.
UnitedHealth Group IT provides a diverse and comprehensive array of application design and infrastructure services designed to advance improved health and well-being for our customers, and to benefit UnitedHealth Group employees across the enterprise. Comprised of the Application Services Group, Enterprise Technology Services Group and the IT Business Services Group, UnitedHealth Group IT has over 7,000 internal and external resources across the globe, and offices in California, Connecticut, Minnesota, New Jersey, South Carolina, Wisconsin and India.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field required. (4 additional years of comparable work experience beyond the required years of experience may be substituted in lieu of a bachelor's degree).
- 5+ years experience in developing requirements and performing system analysis.
- 5+ years experience of major systems implementation experience.
- 2+ years Experience with various system development lifecycles such as waterfall, RUP, and Agile methods.
Assets:
- Knowledge of Health Care Industry and related business functions.
- Advanced course of study in information technology, business or other field.
- Experience with application implementation and support, or systems design and database programming experience.
- Experience with project management and project control methodologies.
- Experience process re-engineering and best practice implementations
- Clinical Systems Implementation and Support
- A+ Certification
- SQL Server, Web Development - Basic HTML
Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: equal opportunity employer M/F/D/V
UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment. In addition, employees in certain positions are subject to random drug testing.