Agile Modeling, Agile Programming Methodologies, Analysis Skills, Application Integration, Architectural Design, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Automation, Business Analysis, Cloud Computing, Communication Skills, DevOps, Documentation, Environmental Design, Green Business, Health Plan, Healthcare, Identify Issues, Incident Management, Information Technology & Information Systems, Information Technology/Systems Audit, Leadership, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Process Flow, Product Demonstration, Product Lifecycle, Product Programs, Scripting (Scripting Languages), Software Administration, Software Patches, Sprint Planning, Sprint Retrospective, Standup Meetings, Team Lead/Manager, Test Case, Testing, Writing Skills
Your Role
This role resides within the Claims & Payment team under Core Health Plan Platform. The DevOps Analyst, Senior will report to the Senior Manager, IT Development. 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.
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.
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
- Expertise in Facets-based integration, along with experience in cloud-based integrations is highly preferred
- Excellent oral and written communication skills; ability to influence stakeholders and technical counterparts
- Demonstrated experience in collaborating with development and operations teams to streamline the product delivery lifecycle
- Experience documenting agile workflows and processes
- Requires basic technical knowledge and experience including adherence to architectural design, development standards, security policies, and sustainable design practices
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.
Your Work
In this role, you will:
- Formulate and define system scope and objectives based on user needs for the highest complexity changes
- Analyze all aspects of business unit functions and mappings to determine application, integration, and optimal use of information systems
- 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
- 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
- Lead the team in regular system audits and implement necessary updates and patches
Your Work
In this role, you will:
- Formulate and define system scope and objectives based on user needs for the highest complexity changes
- Analyze all aspects of business unit functions and mappings to determine application, integration, and optimal use of information systems
- 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
- 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
- Lead the team in regular system audits and implement necessary updates and patches
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Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association
At the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association (BCBSA), we provide business strategy, technical support and consulting expertise to 36 Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies across the nation, employing more than 1,000 of the best strategic thinkers in the industry. We are a Brand manager that sets quality control standards for the 36 independent companies that use the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Brands, and we serve as a trade association that represents these Blue companies. It is through our involvement that the Blues companies share a united vision and strategy while also benefiting from the local strength of all member companies.
2,000 to 2,499 employees
https://www.bcbs.com/about-us/careers