[Remote] Systems Analyst III
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Premera Blue Cross is dedicated to improving customers’ lives by transforming healthcare. As a Systems Analyst III, you will analyze business functions and processes to provide solution recommendations, collaborating with various stakeholders to enhance system implementations and upgrades.
Responsibilities
- Represent business needs within an Agile delivery team. Develop and retain strong positive relationships with business stakeholders. Act as liaison with business stakeholders, planning, conducting and leading the analysis efforts for new system implementations as well as system upgrades and maintenance
- May lead collaborative decomposition sessions to identify high level scope of work across business and IT areas
- Collaborate with business partners, IT partners and delivery teams on more complex business challenges to identify, refine and document business requirements in the form of epics, features and user stories with clear acceptance criteria. Understand process analysis and cost versus benefit analysis; and apply these skills routinely. Use wide range of techniques including interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, business process analysis, use case, story mapping, and task and workflow analysis. Develop and maintain knowledge of Premera IT systems within the aligned domain (Claims) as well as supporting business and IT domains. Research, inform and recommend opportunities to apply business and technology solutions to address business problems
- Demonstrate strong knowledge of data considerations for assigned domain. Create queries to troubleshoot, develop metrics, and create ad hoc reporting as needed. Aggregate, track, analyze and generate reports. Perform data analysis to assist in defining functional requirements. Develop more complex data mapping and begin to independently create modeling, and data transformation rules
- May participate in multiple testing efforts. Build test scenarios and analyze data from tests. Work with software developer to write test scripts. Use data extract tools to validate test results. May provide direction and support for UAT
- Provide input on backlog priorities and dependencies
- Identify and lead improvement opportunities through analysis and understanding of business domain and technology solutions. Provide mentorship and direction to more junior analysts within the team
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in information systems or computer science or equivalent experience
- 5+ years systems analysis experience
- Experience in a software development environment with Agile development practices, including Scrum and SAFe
- Knowledge of project delivery models including Agile and waterfall
- Experience using SQL for data analysis
- Customer-focused, with demonstrated ability to understand and align to the strategic impact/value of the business needs and the flexibility to quickly adjust to changing needs and priorities
- Detailed understanding of the business strategies needs and process within aligned domain; clearly explains them to the delivery team
- Experience in a software development environment with Agile development practices, including Scrum and SAFe
- Experience using SQL for data analysis
- Knowledge of healthcare or health insurance industry
- Knowledge of product development tools including Azure DevOps Services, Visual Studio, Confluence, and Product Plan
- Familiarity with SaaS/vendor supported healthcare applications, including Sapphire
Benefits
- Medical, vision, and dental coverage with low employee premiums.
- Voluntary benefit offerings, including pet insurance for paw parents.
- Life and disability insurance.
- Retirement programs, including a 401K employer match and, believe it or not, a pension plan that is vested after 3 years of service.
- Wellness incentives with a wide range of mental well-being resources for you and your dependents, including counseling services, stress management programs, and mindfulness programs, just to name a few.
- Generous paid time off to reenergize.
- Looking for continuing education? We have tuition assistance for both undergraduate and graduate degrees.
- Employee recognition program to celebrate anniversaries, team accomplishments, and more.
- For our hybrid employees, our on-campus model provides flexibility to create your own routine with access to on-site resources, networking opportunities, and team engagement.
- Commuter perks make your trip to work less impactful on the environment and your wallet.
- Free convenient on-site parking.
- Subsidized on-campus cafes make lunchtime connections with colleagues fun and affordable.
- Participate in engaging on-site activities such as health and wellness events, coffee connects, disaster preparedness fairs and more.
- Our complementary fitness & well-being center offers both in-person and virtual workouts and nutritional counseling.
- Need a brain break? Challenge someone to a game of shuffleboard or ping pong while on campus.
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