Strategic IT Business Analyst — Healthcare Solutions

OU Health; Oklahoma City (OK); On-site; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO

401(k)

Medical plan

Dental plan

Job summary

OU Health is seeking an IT Business Analyst to serve as a strategic partner across clinical, operational, research, and administrative leaders. You will lead discovery and analysis for cross-domain initiatives, translating complex business needs into clear, testable requirements while ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and regulatory standards.

You will develop high-quality artifacts, facilitate workshops, and drive traceability from requirements to design and test, supporting

Qualifications

• Five or more years of directly related experience.
• Possession of or ability to obtain PMI-PBA / CCBA / CBAP within 12 months of hire.
• Strong facilitation, documentation, and modelling skills.
• Experience with agile and waterfall SDLC, requirements management, change control, and governance.

Responsibilities

• Leads end-to-end business analysis for cross-functional initiatives, defining problems, success criteria, and testable requirements.
• Facilitates stakeholder workshops and structured decision sessions across clinical, operational, and technology domains.
• Performs workflow and process analysis to identify inefficiencies and opportunities for improvement.
• Develops and maintains business requirements, functional specs, user stories, acceptance criteria, and data requirements.
• Collaborates with architects, engineers, and vendors to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture and regulatory standards.
• Manages scope and change control for requirements, assessing impacts and trade-offs to prevent defects.
• Contributes to test strategy, design of test scenarios, UAT coordination, and defect validation.
• Supports data, reporting, and integration needs with data elements, rules, and mappings.
• Assists in portfolio prioritization with effort/benefit analyses to guide high-value work.
• Mentors others and promotes analysis standards and governance practices.

Skills

Stakeholder facilitation

Requirements management

SDLC knowledge (Agile/Waterfall)

Testing support

Data mapping

Job description

OU Health is seeking an IT Business Analyst to serve as a strategic partner across clinical, operational, research, and administrative leaders. You will lead discovery and analysis for cross-domain initiatives, translating complex business needs into clear, testable requirements while ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and regulatory standards.

You will develop high-quality artifacts, facilitate workshops, and drive traceability from requirements to design and test, supporting