Senior IT, Business Analyst (contract)

Sound Physicians is seeking experienced Senior IT Business Analysts to support strategic enterprise transformation initiatives that improve how we operate, scale, and serve our healthcare partners. These roles will serve as a critical link between business stakeholders, technology teams, and implementation partners, helping translate business needs into effective, sustainable solutions through requirements gathering, process analysis, data validation, testing, and implementation support.

We are hiring for two Senior IT Business Analyst opportunities. While the core responsibilities are similar, each role supports a different business transformation effort. Candidates with experience supporting Contract Lifecycle Management implementations or Payroll Transformation initiatives are especially encouraged to apply.

This opportunity is ideal for business analysts who enjoy solving complex business problems, working across functions, and partnering closely with stakeholders to deliver meaningful organizational change. The successful candidates will help drive large-scale technology initiatives by bringing structure, clarity, and data-informed decision-making throughout the project lifecycle.

Success in this role means helping deliver enterprise solutions that are thoughtfully designed, thoroughly tested, data-informed, and aligned with organizational goals. You'll bring clarity to complex initiatives, foster collaboration across diverse stakeholder groups, and help ensure solutions are implemented with quality, sustainability, and long-term business value.

The Details: These are full-time, remote contract positions anticipated to last at minimum 6 months with possible extension. Contract duration may be extended or adjusted based on business needs and project requirements.

Partner with business stakeholders, subject matter experts, vendors, and technical teams to define business and system requirements

Analyze current-state processes and identify future-state improvements

Facilitate requirements gathering sessions and stakeholder workshops

Create business requirements, process maps, user stories, data mappings, and supporting documentation

Analyze and validate data to support implementation activities

Document integrations, dependencies, and business rules

Support system configuration and solution design discussions

Develop test scenarios, test cases, and validation plans

Coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT) activities

Track, prioritize, and support defect resolution efforts

Assist with data migration and reconciliation activities

Develop implementation documentation, training materials, and operational support resources

Collaborate across functional teams to drive successful project delivery

This role will support the implementation of a new enterprise Contract Lifecycle Management platform. The analyst will partner with Legal, Compliance, Finance, Operations, and Technology teams to document requirements, streamline workflows, improve visibility into contract processes, and support system implementation and adoption.

Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) systems

Business process redesign and workflow optimization

Process standardization initiatives

Vendor-led software implementations

Contract, legal operations, procurement, or compliance processes

Requirements gathering and stakeholder facilitation

Organizational change and solution adoption

This role will support a large-scale payroll transformation initiative focused on improving payroll processes, data quality, controls, and supporting technology. The analyst will work closely with Payroll, Human Resources, Finance, and Technology teams to ensure accurate data migration, testing, reconciliation, and implementation success.

Payroll system implementations

Payroll and compensation processes

Human Capital Management (HCM) systems

Data validation and reconciliation

Payroll controls and audit requirements

Advanced Excel and SQL analysis

Parallel testing and defect management