Alliance Health · 3 weeks ago
Data Integration Business Analyst (Full-Time, Remote, North Carolina Based)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$92K/yr - $119K/yr
4+ years expAlliance Health is a company focused on enterprise data exchange and integration initiatives. The Data Integration Business Analyst will elicit, analyze, and document business and technical requirements, translating them into integration specifications and test plans while ensuring data quality and compliance across systems.
Health Care
Responsibilities
Lead discovery to capture business goals, data requirements, and SLAs for data exchanges
Produce source-to-target mappings (STMs), transformation rules, and interface control documents (ICDs)
Clarify acceptance criteria and success metrics for each integration
Perform data profiling and gap analysis on source/target systems (e.g., HL7 v2/FHIR, X12/EDI 837/835, NCPDP, CMS-1500/UB-04, flat files, APIs)
Identify data-quality issues; define validation rules and reconciliation processes
Recommend code-set crosswalks and normalization approaches
Develop detailed functional/technical specs for ETL (e.g., SSIS), APIs, and MFT/SFTP exchanges
Partner with data engineers and application developers to align on patterns, standards, and reuse
Support solution design reviews for scalability, security, and maintainability
Create test plans, test cases, and data sets for unit, system, and user acceptance testing (UAT)
Coordinate UAT with business stakeholders; triage defects and manage retests
Validate performance and throughput against SLAs
Assist with go-live readiness (runbooks, SOPs, cutover/backout plans)
Monitor initial production runs, perform data reconciliations, and resolve issues
Participate in incident response and root-cause analysis; document lessons learned
Maintain current interface inventories, data dictionaries, and lineage/flow diagrams
Author and update end-user and technical documentation according to department standards
Communicate complex topics to technical and non-technical audiences
Collaborate with internal teams and external vendors to ensure alignment and timely delivery
Contribute to data governance and interoperability standards
Recommend process improvements, reusable templates, and automation for mapping, testing, and monitoring
Track and report integration KPIs (e.g., timeliness, error rates, data completeness)
Qualification
Required
Vocational or Technical Training in computer science, information systems, business administration, or a related field; and five (7) years of experience in data integration/interoperability, ETL, or data engineering
Or
Associate's degree in computer science, information systems, business administration, or a related field; and six (6) years of experience in data integration/interoperability, ETL, or data engineering
Or
Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, business administration, or a related field; and four (4) years of experience in data integration/interoperability, ETL, or data engineering
Hands-on experience gathering requirements and producing source-to-target mappings and interface specifications
Experience with data integration concepts and tools (e.g., ETL/ELT, SSIS), APIs (REST/JSON), and secure file transfer (SFTP/MFT)
Experience validating healthcare or payer/provider data sets and applying HIPAA privacy/security considerations
Demonstrated ability to write SQL for data profiling, validation, and reconciliation
Preferred
Experience in a healthcare setting (payer, provider, HIE, HISPs) designing/supporting data exchanges (e.g., 837, 835, NCPDP, CMS-1500/UB-04, HL7 v2/FHIR)
Experience with API management, Git/TFS/DevOps, and CI/CD practices
Experience coordinating UAT and production cutovers for integrations
Benefits
Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Long Term Disability
Generous retirement savings plan
Flexible work schedules including hybrid/remote options
Paid time off including vacation, sick leave, holiday, management leave
Dress flexibility
Company
Alliance Health
Alliance Health is the managed care organization for publicly funded behavioral healthcare services.
Founded in 2012Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA
1001-5000 employees
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