What are the responsibilities and job description for the IT Systems Analyst, Consultant position at BlueShield Of California?
Job Description
Your Role
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.
Responsibilities
Your Work
In this role, you will:
Qualifications
Your Knowledge and Experience
Hybrid
This role requires employees to be in-office based on our hybrid workplace model, balancing purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility. For most teams, this means coming into the office two days each week.
Employees living more than 50 miles from an office location will work with their manager to determine in-office time based on business need.
About the Team
About Stellarus and the Ascendiun Family of Companies
Stellarus, launched in January 2025, is designed to scale innovative healthcare solutions that support customers in creating a health care experience deserving of their family, friends, and neighbors.
Stellarus is part of a family of organizations that is overseen by a nonprofit corporate entity named Ascendiun. The Ascendiun Family of Companies also includes Blue Shield of California and its subsidiary, Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan and Altais, a clinical services company.
Stellarus' vision is to empower its customers to create a healthcare experience that is worthy of their family, friends, and neighbors. Stellarus' objective is to offer innovative, modern, scalable solutions that challenge the health care status quo. This very closely aligns with Blue Shield of California's vision by using innovation to improve quality, affordability, and experience for members.
To achieve our mission, we foster an environment where all employees can thrive and contribute fully to address the needs of the various communities we serve. We are committed to creating and maintaining a supportive workplace that upholds our values and advances our goals.
Our Values:
At Stellarus, our core values of agility, trust, drive, courage and service shape our approach to developing innovative product offerings.
Our Workplace Model:
We believe in fostering a workplace environment that balances purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility - providing clear expectations while respecting the diverse needs of our workforce. Our workplace model is designed around intentional in-person interaction, collaboration, connection, creativity and flexibility:
The Company reserves the right to require more presence in the office based on business needs, and requirements are subject to change with periodic reviews.
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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Equal Employment Opportunity:
External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest records and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, State and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disability status and any other classification protected by Federal, State and local laws.
Your Role
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.
Responsibilities
Your Work
In this role, you will:
- 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
Qualifications
Your Knowledge and Experience
- 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
- Knowledge of Six Sigma and Design Thinking methodologies is desirable
- 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
- Experience working with Epic Payer Platform is a plus
- 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
Hybrid
This role requires employees to be in-office based on our hybrid workplace model, balancing purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility. For most teams, this means coming into the office two days each week.
Employees living more than 50 miles from an office location will work with their manager to determine in-office time based on business need.
About the Team
About Stellarus and the Ascendiun Family of Companies
Stellarus, launched in January 2025, is designed to scale innovative healthcare solutions that support customers in creating a health care experience deserving of their family, friends, and neighbors.
Stellarus is part of a family of organizations that is overseen by a nonprofit corporate entity named Ascendiun. The Ascendiun Family of Companies also includes Blue Shield of California and its subsidiary, Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan and Altais, a clinical services company.
Stellarus' vision is to empower its customers to create a healthcare experience that is worthy of their family, friends, and neighbors. Stellarus' objective is to offer innovative, modern, scalable solutions that challenge the health care status quo. This very closely aligns with Blue Shield of California's vision by using innovation to improve quality, affordability, and experience for members.
To achieve our mission, we foster an environment where all employees can thrive and contribute fully to address the needs of the various communities we serve. We are committed to creating and maintaining a supportive workplace that upholds our values and advances our goals.
Our Values:
At Stellarus, our core values of agility, trust, drive, courage and service shape our approach to developing innovative product offerings.
Our Workplace Model:
We believe in fostering a workplace environment that balances purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility - providing clear expectations while respecting the diverse needs of our workforce. Our workplace model is designed around intentional in-person interaction, collaboration, connection, creativity and flexibility:
- For most teams, this means coming into the office two days per week.
- Employees living more than 50 miles from an office location, out of state employees, and employees in certain member-facing roles should work with their manager to determine in-office time based on business need.
- For employees with medical conditions that may impact their ability to work in-office, we are committed to engaging in an interactive process and providing reasonable accommodations to ensure their work environment is conducive to their success and well-being.
The Company reserves the right to require more presence in the office based on business needs, and requirements are subject to change with periodic reviews.
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.
Please click here for further physical requirement detail.
Equal Employment Opportunity:
External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest records and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, State and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disability status and any other classification protected by Federal, State and local laws.
Salary : $111,540 - $167,420