Blue Shield Of California

Systems Analysis, Senior

Blue Shield Of California$110K — $130K *
Healthcare
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent technical experience required.
  • 5+ years of relevant professional experience with deep technical skills in key products or technologies.
  • Strong oral and written communication abilities to influence stakeholders.
  • Excellent problem-solving and prioritization capabilities.
  • Experience collaborating with development and operations teams for efficient product delivery.
  • Familiarity with agile documentation processes and workflows.
  • Proficiency in the Atlassian suite of products is essential.

Responsibilities

  • Drive operational excellence through Incident Management and AI process automation.
  • Provide analytical support and troubleshoot application issues.
  • Collaborate with product stakeholders to understand the business domain.
  • Recommend efficient, cost-effective implementations leveraging reusable features.
  • Document dependencies and communicate them regarding development areas.
  • Create and refine user stories along with process flows and test cases.
  • Participate actively in agile ceremonies and represent development needs.
  • Act as a proxy Product Manager/Scrum Master when necessary.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work in a transformative healthcare environment.
  • Engagement with a collaborative, agile team.
  • Access to advanced technology and solutions.
  • Growth potential through skills 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, Senior 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 technical experience.
  • Requires at least 5 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.
  • Demonstrated experience in collaborating with development and operations teams to streamline the product delivery lifecycle.
  • Experience documenting agile workflows and processes.
  • Experience utilizing the Atlassian suite of products
  • Requires basic technical knowledge and experience including adherence to architectural design, development standards, security policies, and sustainable design practices


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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