Healthcare Systems Analyst | Agile, SQL & Data Insight

Premera Blue Cross; Nevada; Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, vision, and dental coverage

401K employer match

Pension plan

Tuition assistance

On-site parking

Well-being center

Job summary

Premera Blue Cross in Nevada seeks a Business Systems Analyst to bridge business needs and IT delivery. You’ll collaborate with IT and business partners to craft epics, features, and user stories, and contribute to backlog prioritization and sprint planning.

You’ll analyze requirements, perform data analysis with SQL, and support testing including UAT, while identifying opportunities for operational improvements through technology solutions in the healthcare space.

Qualifications

• Experience in a software development environment utilizing Agile delivery practices, including Scrum and SAFe.
• Knowledge of project delivery methodologies, including Agile and Waterfall.
• Experience using SQL for data analysis, data validation, troubleshooting, or reporting.
• Knowledge of healthcare or health insurance industry processes and systems.
• Experience with product development and collaboration tools such as Azure DevOps, Visual Studio, Confluence, and Product Plan.
• Customer-focused with demonstrated ability to understand and align solutions to business needs, operational impact, and customer value.
• Hands-on exposure to at least one relational or cloud database platform, such as SQL Server, Snowflake, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, or similar technology.
• Experience using reporting and visualization tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or similar platforms.
• Interest in using AI, low-code, and workflow automation technologies to solve operational problems, improve processes, and reduce manual work.
• Basic understanding of APIs, system integrations, and data exchange between applications.
• Ability to build strong partnerships with business and IT stakeholders and maintain a high-quality stakeholder experience.
• Understands and applies quality standards, incorporating both functional and non-functional requirements into solution design.
• Experience defining and documenting software requirements for low to moderately complex products, systems, or business processes.
• Fundamental understanding of analytical tools, relational databases, software applications, and data structures.
• Ability to elicit, analyze, organize, document, and trace business and system requirements throughout the solution lifecycle.
• Ability to analyze data, business processes, and system interactions to identify issues and recommend solutions.
• Makes sound tactical decisions using analysis, experience, judgment, and business context.
• Basic problem-solving and root cause analysis skills.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with IT and business to document epics, features, and user stories.
• Analyze requirements and support backlog prioritization and sprint planning.
• Perform data analysis using system tools to validate requirements.
• Triage issues and assist in testing including UAT.
• Identify opportunities for process improvements through technology solutions.
• Represent the business within an Agile delivery team.

Skills

Agile delivery

Scrum

SAFe

SQL data analysis

Stakeholder collaboration

Requirements elicitation

Problem solving

Data interpretation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems/Computer Science/Business

Tools

Azure DevOps

Visual Studio

Confluence

Product Plan

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

Premera Blue Cross in Nevada seeks a Business Systems Analyst to bridge business needs and IT delivery. You’ll collaborate with IT and business partners to craft epics, features, and user stories, and contribute to backlog prioritization and sprint planning.

You’ll analyze requirements, perform data analysis with SQL, and support testing including UAT, while identifying opportunities for operational improvements through technology solutions in the healthcare space.