Medical Informatics Analyst, Principal - Population Health

Blue Shield of CA; Lodi (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Shield of CA's Healthcare Quality Affordability Analytics team is seeking a Medical Informatics Analyst, Principal - Population Health to steer population health strategy through advanced analytics and cross‑enterprise influence. You will lead complex analytic portfolios that inform executive decisions and drive improvements in outcomes and affordability.

This role emphasizes leadership, collaboration, and delivering results through data across multiple clinical areas, with a hybrid

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent with 4 years of additional relevant experience; graduate degree preferred
• 10 years of relevant healthcare analytics experience with enterprise impact
• Experience delivering high-complexity analyses using multiple data sources across clinical areas
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives and stakeholder alignment
• Project or program management credentials (e.g., PMP) preferred

Responsibilities

• Lead complex, high‑impact analytic portfolios informing executive decisions and guiding population health investments
• Shape population health strategy through advanced analytics and cross‑enterprise influence
• Deliver executive-ready analyses and cross‑department coordination across teams

Job description

Your Role

The Healthcare Quality Affordability (HQA) Analytics team plays a key role in discovering information hidden in vast amounts of data that can lead to smarter decisions and deliver better service for our customers and contain the rising cost of healthcare. The Medical Informatics Analyst, Principal - Population Health will report to the Senior Manager of HQA Analytics. Your focus will be serving as a senior analytic and thought leader responsible for shaping population health strategy through advanced analytics and cross-enterprise influence. This role leads complex, high impact analytic portfolios that inform executive decision-making, guide population health investments, and drive improvements in outcomes, equity, utilization, and affordability across lines of business.

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 High School Diploma/GED and 4 years of additional relevant experience in lieu of a degree. Graduate degree in a relevant field (e.g., MPH, MSMBA, MA, RN, RHIA) or equivalent experience leading advanced analytics is preferred


• Requires 10 years of relevant experience delivering healthcare analytics (cost, quality, utilization, and/or outcomes) with enterprise impact


• Experience in delivering high-complexity analyses using 5 or more data sources across 5 or more clinical areas, applying multivariate methods and advanced statistical graphics


• Experience in leading high-complexity analyses using 5 or more data sources and reconciled analytical approaches with analysts in other departments


• Experience leading 3 or more cross-functional initiatives or workstreams end to end, including stakeholder alignment, timeline management, and executive-ready deliverables


• Project or program management credential (e.g., PMP) and 2 or more cross-functional initiatives delivered end to end is preferred

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.