Blue Shield Of California

Systems Analysis, Consultant

Blue Shield Of California$108K — $130K *
Healthcare
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required
  • 7+ years of relevant professional experience and technical abilities
  • Strong oral and written communication skills with stakeholder influence
  • Proficient problem-solving and prioritization abilities
  • Health Care experience is essential; Pharmacy knowledge preferred
  • Expert SQL querying skills and database understanding
  • Familiarity with Agile methodology, Product Model, DevSecOps, and Agile tools

Responsibilities

  • Drive operational excellence in IT Pharmacy solutions including Incident Management and process automation
  • Automate release management to align with CI/CD model using AI tools
  • Provide analytical support for application-related issues and troubleshooting
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to clarify business domain requirements
  • Recommend efficient, cost-effective implementation strategies
  • Document and communicate dependencies in assigned development areas
  • Create and maintain user stories, process flows, and test cases
  • Write and validate acceptance criteria during product demos
  • Participate in agile ceremonies, representing stakeholder needs
  • Act as a proxy Product Manager/Scrum Master when needed
  • Support multiple technology product lines/platforms as a Systems Analyst
  • Configure, develop, and troubleshoot scripts, queries, and reports
  • Ensure security and compliance in development and deployment processes
  • Lead system audits and implement necessary updates

Benefits

  • Flexible working arrangements including office and remote options
  • Opportunity to contribute to transformational healthcare improvements
  • Participation in agile working model
  • Collaboration with diverse product teams
  • Professional growth through skill application beyond formal role boundaries
Full Job Description
Job Description

Your Role

The Pharmacy Care Management Platform team delivers all IT Pharmacy solutions to support Pharmacy Operations and Pharmacy Transformation. The Systems Analyst-Consultant will report to the Pharmacy Development Senior Manager. In this role you will be the comprehensive subject matter expert in the technology products/platform feature space and apply, learn, and extend your skills beyond formal role boundaries. Having a desire to help achieve transformational healthcare improvement should serve as the inspiration behind the ideal candidate's willingness to participate across many different activities within an agile working model.

Responsibilities

Your Work

In this role, you will:
  • Drive operational excellence, including but not limited to Incident Management, process automation leveraging AI, and ensuring smooth deployments for your technology products/platform features.
  • Automate and Modernize release management to support the new Product/Platform and full CI/CD model, leveraging AI tools
  • Provide analytical support and troubleshooting for application-related issues.
  • Work directly with the product stakeholders and/or technology product teams to understand the business domain.
  • Recommend the most efficient and cost-effective implementation, leveraging reusable features where possible
  • Understand, document, and communicate upstream/downstream dependencies supporting assigned development areas
  • Assist in creating, refining, and maintaining user stories and associated deliverables such as process flows and test cases to meet development and stakeholder needs.
  • Write acceptance criteria and ensure criteria comes to fruition during product demos.
  • Actively participate in agile ceremonies (i.e., daily standup, sprint planning, retrospective, and demos), representing the needs and perspectives of your assigned development areas
  • Act as a proxy Product Manager/Scrum Master when necessary.
  • Ability to serve as Systems Analyst for more than one technology product line/platform feature team
  • Configure, develop (scripts, queries, reports), test, troubleshoot (system and application log interrogation), evaluate performance, and support (monitoring and impact remediation).
  • Collaborate with development teams to integrate new features and improvements.
  • Ensure security and compliance standards are met throughout the development and deployment process.
  • Lead the team in regular system audits and implement necessary updates and patches.


Qualifications

Your Knowledge and Experience

  • Requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  • Requires at least 7 years of directly related professional experience and deep technical abilities in one or more primary products, programs or technologies
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills; ability to influence stakeholders and technical counterparts
  • Excellent problem-solving and prioritization skills
  • Requires Health Care knowledge and experience, Preferred Pharmacy knowledge and experience
  • Requires database understanding and expert level SQL querying skillset
  • Requires understanding and experience in Agile methodology, Product Model, DevSecOps and Agile tools
  • Proven ability to function in a fast moving and rapidly evolving environment


Physical Requirements:

Office Environment - roles involving part to full time schedule in Office Environment. Based in our physical offices and work from home office/deskwork - Activity level: Sedentary, frequency most of work day.

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About Blue Shield Of California

Blue Shield of California is a not-for-profit health plan provider that has been providing Californians with access to high-quality healthcare for over 80 years. The company offers a range of health insurance products and services to individuals, families, and employers. Blue Shield of California is committed to improving the health and wellbeing of its members and the communities it serves. The company is also committed to sustainability and has implemented a number of initiatives to reduce its environmental impact.
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Size
7,000 employees
Industry
Founded
1981

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