Title- Business Intel Architect
Location- Remote (Need WI residents only)
Position Summary The Data & Reporting Analyst will join the Integrated Data & Analytics Section (ID&AS) to support complex data initiatives for Wisconsin’s Medicaid and FoodShare programs. Working alongside ID&AS staff and contracted MMIS vendors, this role is responsible for the end-to-end lifecycle of data reporting—from gathering requirements with stakeholders to the technical development and implementation of ad hoc and standard reports. The ideal candidate bridges the gap between policy and technology, ensuring all data outputs are compliant with state and federal regulations.
Key Responsibilities
1. Data Analysis and Report Development
· Perform analysis, development, preparation, implementation, and evaluation of complex standard and ad hoc reports that support data collection, access, changes, retrieval and retention related to Medicaid and FoodShare programs
· Determine report specifications and assist in preparing necessary queries to obtain required data for reports to complete technical queries using SQL/SAS to extract and manipulate data from MES and IM databases.
· Perform rigorous testing and evaluation of report outputs to ensure accuracy and data integrity.
2. Stakeholder Engagement & Requirements Gathering
· Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, management staff, and other colleagues to define reporting requirements and refine system modifications.
· Translate complex policy language into user-friendly logic flows and technical specifications.
· Review design layouts and file structures, providing recommendations for resource allocation and optimization.
3. Regulatory Compliance & Policy Integration
· Review and analyze changes in federal and state rules and regulations for impact on policy and processes, including system software support, especially those necessary for reporting.
· Implement necessary revisions to reporting frameworks to ensure 100% compliance with shifting regulations.
· Evaluate standard reports for cost improvements and operational efficiencies.
4. Documentation & Project Leadership
· Prepare written comprehensive system and data requirements, flowcharts, and draft formal work directives for vendors.
· Develop end-user documentation, program manuals, and user guides to ensure seamless adoption of reporting tools.
· Lead small to medium-sized project teams through problem-solving and implementation phases.
General skills and experience:
o Excellent interpersonal communication skills o Excellent organization and time management skills o Providing detailed status report updates to Project Manager o Experienced with business process reengineering and identifying new applications of technology to business problems to make business more effective o Experience with business analyst and testing industry standards, current and emerging technologies, business process mapping, and reengineering
· Business analyst skills and experience:
o Facilitation
§ Efficiently plan and execute meetings
§ Establish agenda and set meeting objectives
§ Document and distribute meeting decisions and action items
§ Timely follow-up on all action items
§ Document issues and providing to Project Manager
§ Formulate systems to parallel overall business strategies
§ Prepare Risk Identification
§ Prepare Fiscal Analysis (i.e. cost/benefit, ROI, buy/build)
§ Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Independently, performs a variety of complicated tasks. A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected.
o Elicitation
§ Efficiently and effectively divine business requirements from business area staff o Documentation
§ Use established business requirement templates
§ Produce clear and concise requirements documentation
§ Create traceability to RFP requirements o Validation
§ Effectively and efficiently review and validate documented business requirements with business area staff and owners
§ Review, analyze, and evaluate business systems and user needs o Testing
§ Document clear test plans and create test cases that are traceable to business, functional, non-functional, and transition requirements
§ Effectively and efficiently executes test plan and document test results
§ Document defects and collaborates with other business analysts and developers to resolve and execute regression testing
§ Facilitate review of test results with project stake
