Onsite Senior Business Analyst – Medicaid Modernization

Sistema Technologies Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Texas Health and Human Services Commission Information Technology Division is seeking a Business Analyst to support the CARE retirement project, migrating legacy mainframe components to modern applications. The role requires translating complex processes and data flows into clear requirements and visual models.

This position will work across business, application, data, reporting, infrastructure, security, and project delivery teams to document current-state processes and define future-state

Qualifications

• 8+ years of business analysis experience.
• Experience eliciting, documenting, validating, and managing business, functional, technical, data, reporting, and interface requirements.
• Experience developing requirements traceability from business needs through design, development, testing, implementation, and operational readiness.
• Experience conducting current-state and future-state process analysis, gap analysis, impact analysis, and dependency analysis.
• Documenting use cases, user stories, acceptance criteria, business rules, process flows, and requirements specifications.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including executive-ready summaries and technical documentation.
• Experience working across business, application, data, infrastructure, security, and vendor teams.
• Experience supporting legacy system modernization, mainframe retirement, system replacement, or enterprise transformation.
• Experience with Medicaid, health and human services, claims, eligibility, provider, waiver, behavioral health, IDD, State Supported Living Centers, or related public-sector spaces.
• Experience with application development or infrastructure deployment projects.
• Experience with APIs, batch interfaces, data warehouses, reporting modernization, or modular system design.
• Experience with Texas Project Delivery Framework, DIR, state government IT governance, or public-sector procurements.
• Certifications such as CBAP, PMI-PBA, PMP, Agile, Scrum, SAFe, or related credential.

Responsibilities

• Elicit, document, validate, and manage requirements; facilitate collaboration to synthesize information and ensure full coverage.
• Build traceability from stakeholder needs to system requirements; challenge gaps and validate assumptions for accuracy.
• Facilitate discovery and analysis of CARE functions; synthesize findings and deliver decision-ready analysis.
• Act as a bridge between teams, validate assumptions, and proactively address gaps.
• Ensure CARE retirement covers all critical dependencies through cross-functional reviews and actionable recommendations.

Skills

Business analysis

Requirements elicitation

Documentation

Traceability

Process analysis

Stakeholder communication

Tools

APIs

Batch interfaces

Data warehouses

System integration

Job description

Texas Health and Human Services Commission Information Technology Division is seeking a Business Analyst to support the CARE retirement project, migrating legacy mainframe components to modern applications. The role requires translating complex processes and data flows into clear requirements and visual models.

This position will work across business, application, data, reporting, infrastructure, security, and project delivery teams to document current-state processes and define future-state