Business Analyst 1723

Location: Onsite in Austin, Texas; local candidates only; no remote work.

Company

hirify.global is recruiting for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission Information Technology Division.

What you will do

• Support retirement of the Client Assignment and Registration (CARE) legacy mainframe system and migration of its functions to modern, modular Medicaid Enterprise System-aligned applications.
• Elicit, document, validate, and manage business, functional, technical, data, reporting, and interface requirements.
• Analyze current-state and future-state processes, data flows, interfaces, reports, dependencies, gaps, impacts, and integration needs.
• Develop requirements traceability from stakeholder needs through design, development, testing, implementation, and operational readiness.
• Document use cases, user stories, acceptance criteria, business rules, process flows, and requirements specifications.
• Coordinate across business, application, data, reporting, infrastructure, security, vendor, and project delivery teams; provide actionable recommendations.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of business analysis experience reviewing, analyzing, and evaluating business systems and user needs.
• At least 8 years eliciting, documenting, validating, and managing requirements across business, functional, technical, data, reporting, and interface areas.
• At least 8 years developing end-to-end requirements traceability and conducting current-state/future-state process, gap, impact, and dependency analysis.
• At least 8 years documenting use cases, user stories, acceptance criteria, business rules, process flows, and requirements specifications.
• At least 8 years working across business, application, data, infrastructure, security, and vendor teams on complex IT projects with multiple stakeholders, dependencies, risks, and decision points.
• At least 8 years analyzing data flows, interfaces, reports, source-to-target mappings, or system integration dependencies.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including executive-ready summaries and technical documentation.
• Must work onsite in Austin, Texas and be a local candidate; remote work is not accepted.

Nice to have

• At least 4 years supporting legacy modernization, mainframe retirement, system replacement, or enterprise transformation.
• At least 3 years in Medicaid, health and human services, claims, eligibility, provider, waiver, behavioral health, IDD, State Supported Living Centers, or related public-sector domains.
• At least 3 years supporting application development or infrastructure deployment projects.
• At least 2 years with APIs, batch interfaces, data warehouses, reporting modernization, or modular system design.
• At least 2 years with the Texas Project Delivery Framework, DIR, state government IT governance, or public-sector procurements.
• CBAP, PMI-PBA, PMP, Agile, Scrum, SAFe, or a related certification.

Culture & Benefits

• Cross-functional work spans business, application, data, reporting, infrastructure, security, vendor, and project delivery teams.
• The role supports coordinated IT workstreams and continuity of Medicaid operations during system migration.

Hiring process

• Submit three professional references.
• For each reference, provide a required name, company name, and phone number including area code; title, email, relationship, and reference category are optional.