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Under the direction of a Project Manager/Business Analyst (PM/BA), the Business Analyst will be involved in the modernization of EOHHS applications including Home and Community Services Information System (HCSIS) and Quality Enhancement License and Certification (QE5).\nHCSIS is the primary application for DDS to monitor Center for Medicaid Services (CMS) services. These services include the individuals served under the four Acquired Brain Injury / Moving Forward Plan (ABI/MFP) residential and nonresidential waiver programs administered by MassHealth/CMS. QE5 is the application DDS uses to monitor CMS provider qualification assurances.\nThe successful candidate must have substantial hands-on experience leading the functional design or redesign of complex enterprise applications. The candidate will assess existing applications and workflows, identify functional gaps and system dependencies, define future-state application behavior, and translate business policies, regulations, operational needs, and user requirements into detailed, implementable functional designs.\nThis position requires more than requirements documentation or meeting facilitation experience. The Business Analyst - Application Design, Redesign & Modernization will actively shape application solutions and independently own business analysis and functional design deliverables. Experience with case management, healthcare, human services, public-sector, or other highly regulated applications is strongly preferred. \nThe primary work location for this role will be at 40 Broad St., Boston, Massachusetts 02109. The work schedule for this position is Monday through Friday, 9:00AM to 5:00PM. The individual is expected to occasionally travel to the DDS area and regional Massachusetts offices. 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notifications, escalations, exception handling, auditability, reporting, and operational controls.\nDevelop detailed business and functional analysis artifacts such as current state and future state process models, use cases, user stories, functional specifications, business rule catalogs, role and permission matrices, screen and field requirements, data definitions, interface requirements, reporting requirements, acceptance criteria, and requirements traceability matrices.\nEvaluate functional design alternatives and clearly document recommendations, tradeoffs, dependencies, assumptions, constraints, and impacts on users, operations, data, integrations, reporting, etc.\nLead functional design reviews and walkthroughs, resolve requirements and design gaps, obtain stakeholder decisions and approvals, and maintain traceability from business need through design, development, testing, and implementation.\nProactively identify scope changes, design conflicts, delivery risks, unresolved 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