Business Analyst II

Description

Lantana Consulting Group, Inc. 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

Supports public-health data and interoperability initiatives by translating client needs and workflows into clear business and technical requirements. Acts as a connector between public-health stakeholders and delivery implementation teams. Contributes to analysis, documentation, and validation activities for solutions that align with public-health standards, data-governance expectations, and operational realities.

A successful candidate will do the following:

• •Elicit, document, and manage business and technical requirements through interviews, workshops, and reviews with public-health stakeholders and SMEs
• •Develop requirement artifacts such as business requirements, user stories, process maps, data-flow diagrams, and acceptance criteria
• •Collaborate with technical teams to translate requirements into solution designs, backlog items, and implementation plans
• •Coordinate with SMEs and technical staff for test planning, test scenarios, and user-acceptance testing activities
• •Support analysis of system integrations and data flows across public-health programs, laboratories, registries, and external partners
• •Develop documentation, including SOPs, data dictionaries, user guides, and meeting summaries
• •Contribute to decisions regarding data quality, timeliness, reporting requirements, and reuse across public-health use cases
• •Communicate complex technical topics in clear, accessible language for nontechnical audiences.

Requirements

• •Bachelor's degree in health informatics, computer science, engineering, information technology, or a related field
• •Minimum of six (6) years of relavant experience serving as a business analyst in technical-centric projects
• •Fluency in public-health surveillance, epidemiology workflows, and STLT public-health operations
• •Ability to analyze and document end-to-end workflows, system integrations, and data flows that support surveillance and reporting use cases
• •Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including proven ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to a nontechnical public audience
• •Collaborative mindset for working across technical delivery teams and public-health stakeholders
• •Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills
• •If required by the project, ability to successfully complete and obtain a federal Position of Public Trust Level 5 background investigation, meet all eligibility criteria, and maintain the required clearance throughout employment

Preferred qualifications

• •Working knowledge of public-health data exchange and interoperability across PHAs, laboratories, registries, healthcare partners, and federal systems
• •Working knowledge of public health standards and artifacts (e.g., HL7 v2, CDA, FHIR)
• •Working knowledge of generative AI and agentic research versus other methods of automation

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.