Senior Business Analyst - Contract to hire

Senior Business Analyst – Contract to hire

Pay rate: $55 to $60 W2 All Inclusive

Project Location: Albany, NY (Hybrid – Monday Tuesday onsite + alternating Fridays).

Temp To Perm Arrangement: Temp-to-perm; anticipated conversion approximately 9–12 months.

Target Conversion Salary : $110k-$115k + company benefits

The Opportunity

The Senior Application Development Business Analyst plays a critical role in defining, analyzing, and validating business and system requirements for the client platform. As a senior member of client’s Business Solutions team, this role leads requirementgathering efforts for complex enhancements, collaborates with technical and business stakeholders, and ensures the delivery of accurate, scalable, and compliant solutions within a multitier, serviceoriented architecture. The Senior BA mentors’ junior analysts, drives clarity across crossfunctional teams, and serves as a subjectmatter expert on clients business processes, eligibility rules, and system behavior.

Strategic Requirements Leadership
• Lead the elicitation, documentation, and validation of business rules, functional requirements, and nonfunctional requirements for complex enhancements or multisystem initiatives.
• Facilitate requirements workshops, stakeholder interviews, and design walkthroughs to drive clarity and consensus.
• Independently develop detailed use cases, process flows, data mapping, acceptance criteria, and impact analyses.
• Ensure requirement completeness, traceability, and alignment with program objectives, regulatory needs, and system constraints.

CrossFunctional Collaboration
• Serve as a key liaison between business stakeholders, technical design teams, development teams, QA, and operations.
• Communicate complex system behaviors, technical impacts, and policy interpretations in a clear, structured manner.
• Support solution design discussions by providing business insights, system context, and analysis of downstream impacts.
• Lead crossteam requirement clarification sessions and resolve requirement ambiguities proactively.

Solution Support, Testing, & Quality Assurance
• Conduct endtoend business impact assessments for policy changes, defect fixes, and system enhancements.
• Partner with QA to validate test coverage, review test scenarios, and ensure alignment with business requirements.
• Support user acceptance testing (UAT) by clarifying requirements, resolving issues, and confirming system behavior.
• Analyze production issues to determine whether defects stem from requirement gaps, design errors, or process issues.

Advanced Analysis & Process Improvement
• Develop deep expertise in client eligibility rules, enrollment processes, notices, and regulatory constraints.
• Conduct root cause analyses for complex system issues and lead business-side remediation planning.
• Identify opportunities to streamline processes, improve requirement quality, and strengthen cross-team workflows.
• Use approved AI tools to support requirement analysis, scenario modeling, impact detection, and documentation refinement—validating results to ensure accuracy and compliance.

Leadership & Mentorship
• Provide guidance and coaching to junior and midlevel analysts on requirements practices, analysis techniques, and client domain knowledge.
• Review and provide feedback on requirement documents created by other analysts.
• Support onboarding of new team members by sharing system knowledge, tools, and methodologies.

Required Qualifications

Education
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant technical, analytical, policy, or business field, OR an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Required Experience
• 6+ years of experience as a Business Analyst in application development or largescale enterprise environments.
• Proven experience developing comprehensive functional requirements, business rules, and detailed use cases.
• Strong understanding of requirements engineering within Agile frameworks (user stories, acceptance criteria, grooming, traceability).

• Expert analytical and problemsolving skills with the ability to interpret complex data and policy rules.
• Ability to independently lead requirement activities and influence crossfunctional teams.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to diverse audiences.
• Exceptional documentation skills with attention to precision, clarity, and traceability.
• Ability to manage multiple large initiatives simultaneously with minimal supervision.
• Skilled in facilitating discussions, navigating differing viewpoints, and driving consensus.
• Ability to translate business needs into actionable requirements and testable outcomes.
• Proficiency with requirements management tools and collaboration platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to use AI tools responsibly to enhance analysis and documentation quality.

Desired Qualifications

• 2+ year of Healthcare, Medicaid, and/or Health Exchange Industry experience

• Indepth experience with ACA eligibility, enrollment, or notices.
• Experience in healthcare, Medicaid, or Health Exchange environments.
• Exposure to state or federal program regulations; NY State experience strongly preferred.
• Familiarity with multitier enterprise systems, serviceoriented architecture, and integrated applications.