Healthcare Business Analyst

About this role

CORMAC is seeking a highly skilled
Business Analyst
to join our dynamic team supporting the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The Business Analyst will support requirements management, backlog refinement, testing, production support, stakeholder engagement, and training activities related to CMS quality reporting, survey and certification, and healthcare oversight programs. This role requires close collaboration with Product Owners, business stakeholders, developers, testers, and end users to ensure complex healthcare and regulatory requirements are accurately documented, prioritized, developed, tested, and deployed.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience working in Agile/SAFe development environments and a proven ability to translate complex federal healthcare regulations, policy requirements, and business processes into actionable technical solutions.

Responsibilities

- Collaborate with Product Owners, business stakeholders, subject matter experts, and Agile teams to understand business needs and translate them into actionable epics, features, and user stories.

- Lead requirements elicitation sessions with stakeholders and SMEs to gather, analyze, and document business, functional, system, data, reporting, and workflow requirements.

- Analyze and document current and future-state business processes, including federal and state survey, certification, accreditation, quality measurement, and healthcare reporting workflows.

- Collaborate closely with Product Owners to refine and prioritize backlogs, define acceptance criteria, and support SAFe Program Increment (PI) Planning activities.

- Translate complex CMS business rules, healthcare regulations, and policy requirements into clear, concise user stories with well-defined acceptance criteria.

- Ensure requirements are continuously refined and ready for development teams in upcoming Sprints (Iterations).

- Facilitate backlog grooming sessions and pr...