Automation Engineer – Level I

Team: IT

Location: US

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: remote

Accountabilities:

• Analyze existing state systems and document business and system requirements supporting IES modernization.
• Extract, validate, and quality-check business rules from legacy systems, ensuring comprehensive coverage and usability for business partners and analysts.
• Collaborate with agency stakeholders to determine which legacy business rules should be retained, modified, or retired.
• Document current-state and future-state requirements, processes, and system behavior.
• Develop business analysis deliverables, including process flows, context diagrams, use cases, requirements traceability matrices, UI specifications, user stories, data dictionaries, wireframes, and mockups.
• Elicit requirements from agency staff, local district subject matter experts, end users, and executive stakeholders.
• Conduct peer reviews and contribute to internal quality assurance activities.
• Ensure deliverables remain aligned with business needs, project scope, and established timelines.
• Work collaboratively with state employees and vendor teams throughout the modernization program.

Requirements:

• 3–7 years of experience working as an Automation Engineer.
• 3–7 years of state-government business analysis experience within the human services domain, particularly Eligibility, Enrollment, and Case Management (EECM).
• Demonstrated experience eliciting, analyzing, documenting, and managing requirements across the full software development lifecycle.
• Strong ability to produce business process flows, user stories, data dictionaries, wireframes, and technical or functional specifications for modernized eligibility systems.
• 3–7 years of experience contributing to Integrated Eligibility System modernization programs involving health and human services applications aligned with state and federal standards.
• Experience performing business analysis and workflow automation for eligibility systems.
• Experience supporting project planning, roadmaps, test scenarios, and change requests.
• Familiarity with documenting legacy interfaces for state-supervised and locally administered applications.
• Experience drafting Interface Control Documents (ICDs) and evaluating legacy mainframe interfaces for potential disposition in modernized solutions.

Benefits:

• Salary range of $135,000–$145,000 per year.
• Full-time position.
• 35-month engagement.
• Remote work potentially available for more than 50% and up to 100% of the time, subject to manager approval.
• Fully remote consultants are expected to attend monthly meetings in Albany and major milestone meetings as required.
• Low-level Data Breach and Privacy/Cyber Liability insurance is required for the engagement.
• Automobile Liability, Technology Errors and Omissions, and Crime Insurance are not required.