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Senior IT Systems Analyst - Golden Valley, MN-315137: UnitedHealth Group

Job ID315137
Company NameUnitedHealth Group
Job CategoryTechnology; Healthcare
LocationGolden Valley, MN
Position TypeFull-Time, Employee
Experience2-5 Years Experience
Date PostedOctober 27, 2009 (Reposted Nov 18)


Job Category:
Information Technology

Reference Code:
315137

Position Type:
Full-time, Regular




UnitedHealth Group is among the most ambitious Fortune 25 companies you'll ever meet. Through our family of businesses, we're working to make the health care system perform better for more people, in more ways than ever.

Simply put, we think the entire system can be greater than it's ever been. And that drives us to work harder, aim higher, and expect more from one another.

Here, you'll be empowered to make an immediate impact for millions of others. And you'll achieve more than you ever expected. How does that fit with your plans?


Senior IT Systems Analyst - Golden Valley, MN-315137

UnitedHealth Group is an innovative leader in the health and well-being industry, serving more than 55 million Americans. Through our family of companies, we contribute outstanding clinical insight with consumer-friendly services and advanced technology to help people achieve optimal health.

Description

UnitedHealth Group IT provides a diverse and comprehensive array of application design and infrastructure services designed to advance improved health and well-being for our customers, and to benefit UnitedHealth Group employees across the enterprise. Comprised of the Application Services Group, Enterprise Technology Services Group and the IT Business Services Group, UnitedHealth Group IT has over 7,000 internal and external resources across the globe, and offices in California, Connecticut, Minnesota, New Jersey, South Carolina, Wisconsin and India.
Senior IT Systems Analyst - Golden Valley, MN
Position Description:
This function works in the analysis phase of the system development cycle and business support post development. Works with business partners to evaluate business system requirements, evaluate existing or proposed systems and prepare detailed functional and non-functional requirements from which programs will be written. Leads other system analysts.
Primary Responsibilities:
  • Facilitate data and application requirement gathering and documentation
  • Facilitate the gathering of data, application, and/or reporting requirements from various business areas through interviews, in-person, and JAD sessions
  • Ability to ask the right questions to get to the real business needs and dive deeper into initial business requests
  • Analyze business requests and be able to make technology needs and requirement assessments to meet the strategic direction of the organization
  • Develop deep knowledge in specific application(s) in order to serve as an application SME to the business users
  • Great attention to detail to ensure the application and data requirements meet the needs of the business
  • Create data and system application requirement documentation
  • Document requirements in various methods, including process flows, activity diagrams, application and/or data flow diagrams, use case formats
  • Document knowledge transition documentation and processes on application and data changes
  • Act as the liaison for the business segments during project development lifecycle and post-implementation
  • Serve as a system SME for the application and system data structures
  • Work with the business leaders, training, production support and QA teams to understand the existing and new system functionality as needed
  • Work with business representative to understand ongoing data maintenance needs for support of the application
  • Solve complex problems and develops innovative solutions
  • Perform complex conceptual analyses
  • Lead other resources
  • Review work performed by others and provide feedback and mentoring for improvement

Qualifications

Qualifications:
Requirements:
  • 4 years of business/systems analyst background experience is required
  • 2 years experience using a variety of requirements documentation methods, i.e., use cases, wire frames, activity diagrams, process flows, and data analysis is required
  • Must be proficient in writing and executing SQL queries and conducting database analysis
  • 2 years of Software Development Life Cycle Experience is required (general understanding of all phases)
Assets:
  • Must be proficient in MS Project, Excel, Access, Visio and Word
  • JAD/Requirements gathering session facilitation skills
  • Healthcare Industry exposure
Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: equal opportunity employer M/F/D/V
UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment. In addition, employees in certain positions are subject to random drug testing.




Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: equal opportunity employer M/F/D/V. UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.



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