Lantana Consulting Group provides services and software for standards-based health-information exchange. We have established ourselves as a trusted leader in the industry with two decades of expertise in developing and deploying technical specifications and interoperability solutions. As a rapidly growing distributed, employee-owned company, we hire exceptional talent nationwide and offer flexible remote work arrangements. We take pride in our mission to improve public health and quality of care.

Primary purpose 

Responsible for analyzing business processes, identifying opportunities for improvement, and implementing solutions that drive operational efficiency and business value. Collaborate with technical teams and stakeholders to gather requirements, maintain product backlogs, and facilitate communication between business and technical teams.

A successful candidate will do the following:

• Own and prioritize the execution and operations backlog 
• Gather requirements from sources that include other teams, external users, and clients 
• Translate real-world validation findings into clear implementation and validation tickets
• Prioritize backlog based on facility-onboarding timelines, dependencies, and validation results
• Ensure backlog reflects data-quality issues, execution risks, and adoption barriers
• Align backlog to implementation metrics
• Collaborate with the Agile PM to address blockers, dependencies,      and stakeholder needs 
• Create detailed functional specifications, user stories, and process flows 
• Organize and lead sprint planning sessions, stand-ups, backlog refinement, and sprint reviews 
• Collaborate with Scrum Team to maintain well-defined product backlogs, prioritize items, and ensure proper sizing and estimations
• Gather and document business requirements through stakeholder interviews, workshops, and process analysis
• Analyze complex business problems and processes to recommend effective solutions
• Document business processes and prioritize drive requirements across teams
• Collaborate with technical teams to implement business requirements
• Facilitate meetings between business stakeholders and technical teams and communicate requirement changes effectively to stakeholders
• Foster a collaborative and self-organizing team environment, encouraging open communication, transparency, and continuous improvement
• Encourage a culture of continuous improvement by conducting retrospectives, implementing improvements, and sharing best practices
• Work on complex features within established projects
• Develop and maintain project documentation, including requirements documents, user guides, and training materials
• Ensure alignment between business and technical needs
• Identify and remove impediments that hinder team progress
• Track and report on key Agile metrics such as velocity, burn-down charts, and sprint progress 

• Bachelor's degree in health informatics, computer science, engineering, information technology, or related field
• At least six years of relevant work experience 
• Experience as a business analyst or similar role in software-development projects
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to translate complex business needs into actionable requirements
• Exceptional communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies, especially Scrum practices
• Proficiency in tools for requirements-management and documentation
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust Level 5 clearance
• Ability to work well with diverse, distributed teams in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and adapt to changing requirements

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with software-development lifecycle management tools (such as Jira and Confluence)
• Knowledge of the principles and practices of product management 
• Experience working on projects related to healthcare standards and/or public-health reporting
• Experience supporting federal-government agencies, preferably CMS, CDC, or other HHS agencies
• Knowledge of Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) or HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)
• Certification as Scrum Master (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), or other applicable certification 
• Certification as Certified Analytics Professional (CAP), Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering (CPRE), or other business-analysis certification

Additional information:

• We are a remote organization, but we prioritize in-person collaboration during key events such as our annual company      meeting.  
• We are an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws. 
• For this position, the candidate must reside in the United States.