Summary
This job involves working as a business analyst for a state social services software system called PATH, focusing on managing data overrides, ensuring accurate federal reporting, and testing system updates to support child welfare programs.
It requires coordinating with staff and vendors to improve the system while handling requests for data in legal or audit situations.
A good fit would be someone with experience in data analysis and social services technology who enjoys problem-solving and ensuring compliance with government rules.
Full Job Description
This position serves as a business analyst for the People's Access to Help (PATH) system using knowledge of policies and procedures developed by Bureau for Social Services (BSS) management staff. The primary areas of focus for this position are performing intake data overrides in the PATH Child Welfare system and providing Federal Reporting support. This position is critical for oversight and coordination of social services as follows: ensuring data quality in PATH, ensuring accurate Federal reporting, and ensuring that Federal and State program requirements are met by software systems. This position requires the ability to analyze system data, determine the impact of proposed system and/or data changes, analyzing and testing of new software functionality, review and/or completion of technical mapping and requirements documentation, providing consultation and assistance to system users and other staff, and assisting in the development of functional requirements. This position participates in meetings with agency staff and vendor to design, develop, and implement system functionality into the PATH system. Provides support for case data compilation for litigation requests, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and Legislative audits. Research, design, develop and test new software functionality. Evaluates and analyzes data for accuracy and submits data corrections as needed. Provide consultation and functional assistance to system users and other staff. Position can be called upon to determine system logic, data migration, system security, data structures and reporting requirements. Assists system users in defining their business processes and develops functional/technical requirements. Position may require the organization of development or testing projects related to the assigned functional area. Monitor and conduct unit, system acceptance and regression testing to evaluate system effectiveness and performance.
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Qualifications
Training: Bachelor's Degree from a regionally accredited four-year college or university.
Substitution: Additional experience as described below may be substituted for the required training on a year-for-year basis.
Experience: Four years full-time, equivalent part-time paid or volunteer experience in a technical or program area that is related to the area of employment.
Substitution: Post-graduate education in a field related to the technical or program area may be substituted for the required experience on the basis of fifteen semester hours for one year of experience.
Additional Information
Substitution: Three (3) years of full-time or equivalent part-time paid experience in the Health and Human Resources series may substitute for the required training and experience.