Business AnalystPosted: November 15, 2009
Business Analyst Location: DC # of openings: 1 Division: Information Technology Department: Project Management Last updated: 11/2/09 3:07 PM Pay range: Description Function and Scope: The Business Analyst (BA) group is a key intermediary between clinical staff and the technological implementation of new products for the ACC’s cardiology-based data registries. This position helps shape the direction of new products and services that are delivered to our clients—internal staff, physician members, and cardiology practices. This vital team member also identifies gaps in the existing products in order to improve upon them. The ideal BA candidate is a detail-oriented person with the ability to follow a project through from inception to execution. This position turns ideas into product. Some of the key tasks for this position include: 1. Collaborate and provide critical thought and best practice discipline in the planning, design, development, and deployment of new applications, and enhancements to existing applications. 2. Interview clinical staff and physician membership to identify the requirements for new registry products and applications. Write functional requirements and associated artifacts to support the technology build. 3. Write functional requirements and assist with prototype development for new products and services, to include web portals, data collection modules and data reportingprocesses. 4. Ensure detail designs, prototypes and application functionality adhere to the functional requirements. Identify deviations from requirements and up-channel issues or concerns to the assigned project manager. 5. Determine process flow for new systems or technology/data transfer between existing systems; modeling design and requirements to follow system and/or product cycles to completion. 6. Work closely with the technical lead for all assigned projects to ensure functional requirements are accurate and complete. Ensure detail design documents accurately reflect customer needs and expectations. 7. Work with the quality assurance team to validate system acceptance and user acceptance test plans and test scripts to ensure error free applications, tools and reports. 8. Interview ACC staff and physician membership for the purpose of defining data elements and definitions that will ultimately improve patient outcomes for new cardiology-based registries. 9. Assist with the development of metadata, data models, and data dictionaries for new and existing cardiology-based data registries. 10. Assist as needed with the orientation and training to end users for all modified and new systems. 11. Assist in the development end-user documentation and training materials as needed. Required Qualifications: 1. 4-Year degree in Information Systems, Informatics, Decision Science or similarly disciplined field and experience. 2. 2+ years experience as a Business Analyst. 3. Experience in web based applications user interface design. 4. Strong analytical, reasoning, troubleshooting, and organizational skills. Detail oriented. 5. Strong problem-solving/issue resolution skills. 6. Strong oral and written communication skills. 7. Strong organizational and interpersonal skills. 8. Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office software such as Visio, Access, Excel, Word, PowerPoint and MS Project are preferred. Preferred Qualifications: 1. Knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and MS-Access 2003. 2. Knowledge of UML (Unified Modeling Language). 3. Knowledge of XML 4. Knowledge of Software Requirement Specifications 5. Knowledge of clinical data warehousing and patient outcomes reporting. 6. Knowledge of statistics including percentiles, rankings, means, medians and standard deviations.
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