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IT Systems Analyst

Minnesota - Business Analyst

Hollstadt Overview

Hollstadt Consulting is a management and technology consulting firm dedicated to placing professionals at engagements where they will excel. When you work with us, you'll work with a refreshingly real company led and staffed by seasoned experts who are also down-to-earth, good people. We're committed to treating you with respect and helping you achieve your career aspirations.

Since 1990, Hollstadt has been a trusted partner to more than 150 domestic and global companies and has successfully completed over 3,000 projects. Our continued growth has created challenging and rewarding opportunities for accomplished IT and Business Consultants. Hollstadt Consulting is an equal opportunity employer including disability/veteran.

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Job Description

Business Analyst, Sr.

Pay Rate: The hourly pay rate range for this position is $47.72–$54.85 dependent on qualifications and experience.

Hollstadt offers medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, paid sick leave, and retirement benefits to eligible employees.


Responsibilities:

 

  • Serves as a conduit between customers, vendors, and the IT Solutions development team from medium to large sized projects encompassing Medicare Part D and Medicaid.
  • Strong ability to translate existing and non-existing business processes to technical requirements including metadata profiling, understanding SDLC, and the processing of ELT functions.
  • Proficient ability to understand and translate CMS Medicare Part D guidance into technical requirements in collaboration with multifunction teams.

 

Strong experience in the following skillsets:

  • Communication – ability to speak clearly and concisely in both verbal and written formats.
  • Technical – ability to understand and convey technical information in a simple user-friendly manner. 
  • Proficient in SQL Server Management Studio, SQL coding, and C#
  • Organizational – ability to gather, categorize and prioritize information.
  • Interpersonal – ability to listen, observe, translate, and facilitate discussions to upper management as well as in a group setting across multiple functional teams.
  • Management – ability to negotiate priorities and resolve conflicts among multiple stakeholders in different phases of projects.
  • Independently manage multiple tasks or projects that can become escalations or high priority functions across multifunctional teams with little to no management involvement.
  • Ability to lead, define, streamline business processes and system implementation enhancements within the organization’s required policies, procedures, and tools as a SME.
  • Consults on application issue resolution, including recommending priorities for work requests and proposing alternative solutions.
  • Participate in mathematical models, designing of algorithms in connection to other departments and vendors, analyze metadata keeping SLA’s trends and reporting deliverables, and perform analysis of risk assessments and cost benefit analysis in cooperation with business stakeholders.
  • Acts as a mentor to Enterprise IS Business Analysts in the areas of requirements gathering, documentation, business analyst processes, problem solving, and customer vendor management.
  • Ability to meet deadlines and prioritize timelines


Required Skills and Experiences:

  • Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of related professional experience, or 9 years of related experience in lieu of a degree. 
  • Advanced collaboration, interpersonal, oral and written communication skills with proven track record of professional communications at all levels of management.
  • Advanced research, analytical problem solving, algorithm methodology development, and the ability to analyze processes to scope process improvements.
  • Project management skills with the strong ability in utilizing Microsoft suite of tools including Word, Visio, Excel, PowerPoint, O365, JIRA, and other project tools.
  • Proven understanding of the health care industry and Medicare Part D rules and regulationsMedicaid services, claims adjudication process, CMS guidance, and the life cycle of PDE data.Evening, night, or weekend hours may occasionally be required during the AEP season as well the months before and after AEP.
  • Proficient with SSMS, SQL, SAS EG, Text Editor, and executable UAT knowledge and functions.

Preferred Skills and Experiences:

  • Working knowledge of SAP and a basic understanding of the software development lifecycle that pertains to different types of data format communications between IT organizations.
  • High degree of integrity with a “can-do” attitude proving ability to motivate and inspire cross-functional teams who are technical and non-technical across the organization to successfully complete work or projects in a fast-paced environment.
  • The ability to demonstrate decision making process using data, identifying process improvements in an agile environment, and discovering trends in data where there’s follow through in implementation improvement needs.
  • Working knowledge of serverless computing services surrounding Microsoft Azure.


Benefits + Perks

Comprehensive Benefit Plan

Hollstadt offers medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, paid sick leave, and retirement benefits to eligible employees. With three different medical plans to choose from, you can enroll in the coverage you need from individual to family, or anywhere in between!

Remarketing Process

Hollstadt is based on retention and relationships. We get to know your strengths and career wishes throughout your assignment and then start remarket discussions 6-8 weeks prior to your end date. By being proactive, we are able to keep your down time between assignments as short as possible, unless you choose otherwise.

Professional Development

Hollstadt offers on-demand training through our consultant portal. Trainings give our consultants the continuing education they need to excel on their projects. Many of our courses apply towards continuing education credits and we have an entire training hub dedicated to upskilling in Artificial Intelligence (AI).

401k + Matching

One popular benefit is our 401(k) match on the first 4% of your contributions. Hollstadt wants to help you reach your long-term financial goals and understands that planning for your future is critical. Consultants also have access to support from a Financial Advisor.

Bonus Opportunities

We appreciate and reward loyalty. Join Hollstadt, stay for 5 years, and we’ll give you a $5,000 Longevity Award bonus! Additionally, we know great talent knows other great talent. If you are on contract with Hollstadt and refer one of your connections who gets placed, we’ll pay you $1,000!

Ongoing Support & Networking

We have made a significant investment in building a support program for our consultant team - so you never have to feel like you are going it alone. We also have a Consultant Coach program which acts like a 'work buddy' to provide a safe ear for questions or concerns at your client site.