Business Analyst - Child Welfare Modernization

Maximus; Topeka (KS); On-site; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Maximus in the United States is seeking a Business Analyst to translate program and policy needs into clear business requirements, specifications, and deliverables for large child welfare modernization initiatives.

You will work with client leadership, program staff, technical teams, vendors, and PMO resources to validate workflows, manage dependencies, and ensure alignment with federal and state requirements throughout implementation readiness.

Qualifications

• Four (4) years of current, relevant experience in business analysis, requirements elicitation, process improvement, project coordination, or system implementation support for government health and human services programs.
• Demonstrated ability to work with program, policy, technical, vendor, and project management stakeholders to document business needs, validate workflows, analyze gaps, and support alignment between business objectives and technology solutions.
• Experience developing or maintaining business requirements, functional specifications, process flows, user stories, traceability matrices, meeting notes, decision logs, action item logs, and other project deliverables.
• Ability to analyze complex information, identify risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies, and communicate findings clearly to client and internal teams.
• Knowledge of child welfare is required.

Responsibilities

• Deliver consulting project activities for various projects.
• Analyze complex data and identify patterns, recommend actions, and measure outcomes.
• Coordinate with technical staff to understand business requirements, specifications, and processes.
• Conduct market research and understand market trends.
• Create system functional specifications from business requirements.
• Interact with organization and client managers.
• Perform cost/schedule monitoring.
• Identify additional product and service opportunities in customer organization.

Skills

Business analysis

Requirements elicitation

Stakeholder management

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Maximus in the United States is seeking a Business Analyst to translate program and policy needs into clear business requirements, specifications, and deliverables for large child welfare modernization initiatives.

You will work with client leadership, program staff, technical teams, vendors, and PMO resources to validate workflows, manage dependencies, and ensure alignment with federal and state requirements throughout implementation readiness.