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Senior Business Analyst/Lead Business Analyst – B1/B2 Employment Type: Permanent Location: Chennai Responsible Functions Product Vision & Strategy: Help with inputs on product features through market analysis to understand market landscape including competitor solutions, trends and customer needs. Stakeholder Engagement: Interact with diversified stakeholders to conduct JAD sessions and use variety of techniques to elicit, document, analyze and validate client requirements. Interface with Business team to conduct product demonstrations, evaluate, prioritize and build new features and functions. Requirements Management: Analyze and develop business requirement document (BRD) for client/business reference. Translate Business Requirements to user Stories to create, prioritize in backlog, sprint, DOD and releases using Jira for development consumption. Perform requirements review with external and internal stakeholders and resolve issues while suggesting corrective actions. Functional Solution Development: Responsible for end-to-end functional solution. Analyze the business problem and validate the key business requirements to create a complete picture of workflows and technical requirements fulfilled by existing and proposed software. Identify, define and evaluate potential product solutions, including off-the-shelf and open-source components, and system architecture to ensure that they meet business requirements. Communication & Collaboration: Act as a liaison between Business user and technical solutions/support groups to ensure proper communication between diversified teams. Collaborate with development team (including architecture, coding & testing teams) to produce/maintain additional product and project deliverables in technical design, testing & program specifications, additional test scenarios and project plan. Proactively manage expectation regarding roadblocks, in the critical path to help ensure successful delivery of the solution. Business Value: Comprehend the fundamental solution being developed/deployed – its business value & blueprint how it fits with the overall architecture, risks, and more. Drive business metrics that will help optimize business & also deep dive into data for insights as required Team Mentoring: Train & Mentor juniors in the team on a need basis Essential Functions Technologist who enjoys executing and selling Healthcare solutions. Being on the front-line of client communications. Good understanding of the US Healthcare value chain and key impact drivers [Payer and/or Provider] Knowledgeable and cognizant of how data management and science is used to solve organizational problems in the healthcare context Hands-on experience in at least one area of the data and analytics technical domains - Enterprise cloud data warehousing, integration, preparation, and visualization along with artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science, data modeling, data management, and data governance Strong problem solving and analytical skills: ability to break down a vague business problem into structured data analysis approaches & ability to work with incomplete information and take judgment-driven decisions based on experience. Primary Internal Interactions Review with the Product Manager & AVP for improvements in the product development lifecycle Assessment meeting with VP & above for additional product development features. Train & Mentor juniors in the team on a need basis. Primary External Interactions Communicate with onshore stakeholder & Executive Team Members. Help the Product Management Group set the product roadmap & help in identifying future sellable product features. Client Interactions to better understands expectations & streamline solutions. If required should be a bridge between the client and the technology teams. Skills Technical Skills Required Skills – Good Knowledge of US Healthcare with at least 3 years of experience working with various US Healthcare Payer clients Skills Must Have Good understanding of Software Development Life Cycle & Methodologies like Agile Scrum, Waterfall etc. Strong experience in requirements elicitation techniques, functional documentation, stakeholder management, business solutions validation and user walkthroughs. Strong documentation skills to create BRD, FSD, Process Flows, User Stories Strong presentation skills. Basic knowledge of SQL. Knowledge of tools like Jira, Visio, Draw.io etc. Skills Nice To Have Development experience of 1 or 2 years will be good to have Experience on Big Data Tools – not limited to – Python, Spark + Python, HIVE, HBASE, Sqoop, CouchDB, MongoDB, MS SQL, Cassandra, Kafka Knowledge of Data Analysis Tools – (Online analytical processing (OLAP), ETL frameworks) Knowledge of Enterprise modeling tool and data integration platform (Erwin, Embarcadero, Informatica, Talend, SSIS, DataStage, Pentaho) Knowledge of Enterprise business intelligence platform (Tableau, PowerBI, Business Objects, Microstrategy, Cognos) Knowledge of Enterprise data warehousing platform (Oracle, Microsoft, DB2, Snowflake, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform) Process Specific Skills Delivery Domain - Software Development – SDLC & Agile Certifications Business Domain - US Healthcare Insurance & Payer Analytics Fraud, Waste & Abuse Payer Management Code Classification Management Soft Skills Understanding of Healthcare business vertical and the business terms within Good analytical skills. Strong communication skills - oral and verbal Ability to work with various stakeholders across different geographical locations Should be able to function as an Individual Contributor as well if required. Strong aptitude to learn & implement healthcare solutions. Ability to work independently Working Hours General Shift – 12PM to 9 PM Will be required to extend as per project release needs Education Requirements Master’s or Bachelor’s degree from top tier colleges with good grades, preferably in a relevant field including Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science or equivalent experience Show more Show less
