IT Systems Analyst, Consultant

Blue Shield of California•Oakland, CA

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

The IT Systems Analyst, Consultant role is responsible for end to end capability planning and execution throughout the Product Lifecycle, including: gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements, defining the vision and roadmap for an area of capability, ensuring application scalability, gap identification, improvement through automation and working closely with applications engineering, enterprise architecture, suppliers as well as key business stakeholders to ensure business goals are met without sacrificing quality or compliance with key non-functional requirements (security, scalability, operability, unit cost, etc).This position reports to the Sr. Manager/Care Management & Quality Platform Team in Woodland Hills. Our leadership model is about developing great leaders at all levels and creating opportunities for our people to grow – personally, professionally, and financially. We are looking for leaders that are energized by creative and critical thinking, building and sustaining high-performing teams, getting results the right way, and fostering continuous learning.

Requirements

Requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, MBA preferred
Requires at least 7 years of directly related professional experience and deep technical abilities in one or more primary products, programs or technologies, preferably implementing and supporting health solutions for a large enterprise
Ability to drive Strategic Capability Planning processes
Strong knowledge and practice experience working with Agile Methodologies
Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
Demonstrated success delivering solutions from initiation to production
Experience leading organizations through complex change highly desirable
Strong conflict management skills are necessary
Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams without formal authority
Must possess excellent written and verbal communication skills; Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of the organization
Healthcare experience strongly preferred
Must have experience managing suppliers
Must be willing to travel on occasion

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of Six Sigma and Design Thinking methodologies is desirable
Experience working with Epic Payer Platform is a plus

Responsibilities

Define the strategy and roadmap for Care Management & Quality stakeholders at Blue Shield of California
Partner with key business and IT stakeholders to secure funding and initiate work in support of key roadmap imperatives
Work with suppliers to drive roadmaps in ways that closely align to capability roadmaps and BSC strategic objectives
Provide source to target mapping as required
Develop High-Level Expertise with how Blue Shield of California solves complex business problems within the Care Management & Quality domain which would include Clinical Quality Data Integrations and vendor partners
Understand business stakeholder goals, processes and systems and works to achieve operational targets
Work to improve performance/processes within their domain
Work daily to solve complex problems requiring in-depth investigation and problem- solving skills as well as creative solutioning
Understand and apply Agile methodology to daily work and support user story generation, sprint reviews and deployments
Drive low-fidelity prototype work to evaluate potential value of options under consideration
Influence both internal and external customers regarding IT policies, procedures/practices and security
Provide guidance, leadership and coaching/training to other employees
Act as a leader within the company