Business Analyst Senior

Datasoft Technologies, Inc.; Indianapolis (IN); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Job summary

Datasoft Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Sr Business Analyst for a 12-month contract in Indianapolis (hybrid). The role supports IDOH's Office of Data and Analytics on PHIG, delivering data, analytics, governance and operations.

You will gather and document requirements, map data, develop metadata, and coordinate stakeholders across business and IT to ensure timely reporting and sustainable data capabilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT/health/analytics or equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of BA or PM experience.
• Experience gathering and documenting business and technical requirements.
• Experience with joint requirements gathering sessions.
• Demonstrated ability to adapt and use client tools.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Excellent change and relationship management abilities.
• Ability to bridge business and IT and work in a team with fluid demands.
• Familiarity with grant-funded initiatives and data governance concepts.
• Experience with data governance and data-quality concepts is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Support PHIG-related data, analytics, reporting, business operations, and data-governance initiatives.
• Define and document PHIG business needs, scope, deliverables, milestones, risks, assumptions, and success measures.
• Maintain auditable PHIG project records including requirements and decisions.
• Develop materials for PHIG grant management, leadership updates, and performance reporting.
• Identify dependencies/risks affecting timelines; document and escalate issues through governance channels.
• Promote long-term sustainability and adoption of PHIG data products and governance processes.
• Lead or support end-to-end data mapping for PHIG assets and document data definitions.
• Coordinate with data owners, stewards, analysts, engineers, and vendors to resolve data-definition conflicts.
• Monitor data-quality rules and reporting, and develop governance scorecards.

Skills

Business analysis

Project management

Requirements gathering

Facilitation

Analytics

Communication

Change management

Relationship management

Business-IT liaison

Team collaboration

Informatica EDC

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Informatica EDC

Job description

Job title: Sr Business Analyst

Number: 812813

Duration: 12 Months with possible extension

Client Location: Indianapolis, IN (HYBRID WORK)

Job Description:
The Business Analyst supports IDOH's Office of Data and Analytics (ODA) in delivering data, analytics,
business operations, and data-governance initiatives associated with the Public Health Infrastructure Grant
(PHIG).

• This position is intended to provide business analysis, data governance, documentation, work management,reporting, and stakeholder coordination support for PHIG related work. The incumbent will translate business needs into actionable requirements; support data mapping, metadata, lineage, data-quality, and governance activities; and improve portfolio visibility through accurate work tracking, documentation,reporting, and stakeholder coordination.
• The Business Analyst will serve as a bridge between business stakeholders and technical delivery teams for PHIG-related data, analytics, reporting, infrastructure, and operational initiatives. The position will support the PHIG grant's associated deliverables, timelines, reporting needs, and sustainability objectives.
• The incumbent will gather, analyze, document, validate, and manage business and data requirements; facilitate alignment across stakeholders; and maintain the documentation and work-management artifacts needed to move PHIG initiatives from intake through implementation and operational handoff.

The position will provide dedicated support in two interconnected areas:

Job Duties

PHIG program support

• Support the planning, implementation, monitoring, documentation, and continuous improvement of PHIG-related data, analytics, reporting, business operations, and data-governance initiatives.
• Work with ODA leadership, program areas, technical teams, and grant stakeholders to define and document PHIG business needs, project scope, deliverables, dependencies, milestones, risks, assumptions, and measures of success.
• Maintain accurate, timely, and auditable PHIG project records, including requirements, work items, decisions, action items, status reports, risks, issues, changes, and supporting documentation.
• Support development of materials needed for PHIG grant management, leadership updates, stakeholder communications, implementation monitoring, and performance reporting.
• Identify dependencies and risks that could affect PHIG timelines, data availability, reporting readiness, project outcomes, or grant deliverables; document and escalation issues through established ODA and IDOH governance channels.
• Support activities that promote the long-term sustainability, usability, governance, and operational adoption of PHIG-funded data and analytics products, processes, and infrastructure.

PHIG data mapping and governance

• Lead or support end-to-end data mapping for priority PHIG data assets, including documentation of entities and fields from source systems through staging, curated, reporting, and analytic layers, as applicable.
• Document PHIG-related business definitions, reference and code sets, business rules, transformation logic, reporting calculations, and data dependencies.
• Coordinate with data owners, data stewards, program subject-matter experts, analysts, engineers, and vendors to resolve data-definition conflicts and obtain documented decisions.
• Support development and maintenance of PHIG metadata, business glossary entries, lineage records, data dictionaries, mapping inventories, and stewardship or ownership assignments.
• Assist with documenting and monitoring PHIG data-quality rules, thresholds, exceptions, remediation activities, and resolution status.
• Develop PHIG governance scorecards and progress reporting, which may include mapping completeness, lineage coverage, glossary completeness, unresolved data-definition issues, data-quality issue severity, and time to resolution.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree from an accredited university in Information Technology, Computer Science, Public Health, Epidemiology, Statistics, Analytics, Programming, Business or related field; or equivalent experience.
• 2 + years of relevant business analyst and/or project management experience.
• Experience in gathering and documenting business and technical requirements and use cases.
• Experience with participating in and facilitating joint requirements gathering sessions.
• Demonstrated ability to quickly adapt and use Client tools, as needed.
• Exceptional analytics, conceptual, and problem-solving abilities.
• Exceptional communication skills, both oral and written.
• Excellent change management and relationship management skills.
• Ability to be a bridge between business and IT.
• Ability to work in a team environment with multiple and fluid demands.
• Ability to support grant-funded initiatives by maintaining organized, accurate, and timely project documentation; tracking deliverables and dependencies; communicating status and risks; and working within defined program, fiscal, reporting, and compliance expectations.
• Ability to maintain effective and professional working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Working knowledge of how to implement and grow adoption of business applications is preferred.
• Familiarity with Informatica platforms including Enterprise Data Catalog is preferred.
• Experience in leading workshops or training sessions with a user community is preferred.
• Experience supporting federally funded, grant-funded, or other externally funded initiatives with defined deliverables, reporting requirements, implementation timelines, and accountability expectations is preferred.
• Experience supporting rural health, public health, healthcare access, health equity, health systems, community health, or related initiatives is preferred.
• Experience supporting cross-agency, cross-sector, vendor-supported, or multi-stakeholder initiatives is preferred.
• Familiarity with grant-funded project documentation, implementation tracking, outcomes reporting, sustainability planning, or audit-ready records is preferred.