Health Care Analyst - Data Engineer

With more than 7,000 employees, we are the largest health insurance company in Michigan. We offer an exciting work environment with a diverse group of employees. Our goal is to make health insurance easier for our members. We want to transform the industry and become a resource that people can trust.

Detroit, MI

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan

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Full-time

Competitive Total Compensation Package

Overview: <p><strong>Department Summary / Preferences:</strong></p> <p><strong>Must have very strong communication and analytical skills and an ability to work as part of an agile team at the interface with traditional IT, where he/she interacts with the data architectures to gather system knowledge. This individual will work closely with statisticians, internal team leads, data teams, and other analytics team members, building collaborative partnerships to enable analytics delivery through data preparation and infrastructure development.</strong></p> <p>Responsible for planning, organizing, collecting, analyzing and maintaining data for program performance&nbsp;assessments and assist with coordinating projects / assignments details, data and content for the Healthcare Value Evaluations team. The following will assist in your success in this position.</p> <ul> <li>Gathering data that assists with establishing sound and objective healthcare evaluation output, including performing quality checks and assessment&rsquo;s data output review.</li> <li>Research, compile, optimize and analyze appropriate and relevant data and recommendations for operational improvements. Support bug fixing and performance analysis along the data pipeline while testing data, building ETL jobs, and developing appropriate infrastructure, focusing on supporting effective data pipelines, codes changes, and architecture to enable analytic efforts.</li> <li>Skill with Teradata, Oracle, MySQL, SQL, Informatica, QlikView, or similar reporting and BI packages.</li> <li>Emerging understanding in opportunities for automation, on big data platform (big application of SQL server or Oracle, Hadoop, Map/Reduce, Spark, HBase, CouchDB, Hive, Pig).</li> <li>Experience working with healthcare data (claims, registry, EMR) or other unstructured data a plus.</li> </ul>
Responsibilities: <ul> <li>Research, analyze, identify, and evaluate data from assigned problems to evaluate existing and potential trends and issues.</li> <li>Possess and maintain a comprehensive understanding and knowledge of BCBSM business, products, programs (including provider data, networks, etc.), corporate organizational structure (including functional responsibilities), and basic research principles/methodologies.</li> <li>Assist in the management and monitoring of multiple projects simultaneously by establishing project plans and objectives to ensure goal attainment within defined parameters.</li> <li>Communicate results of analysis to management via reports/presentations and assist management in implementing programs that provide solutions.</li> <li>Recommend, communicate, and implement solutions to identified problems/root cause of issues.</li> <li>Provide expertise and guidance to unit and corporate staff as required.</li> <li>Represent and participate in group or committee discussions.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Responsible for identifying, collecting, analyzing, and maintaining data to evaluate issues that support prospective business decisions. Coordinate projects for senior management.</strong></p> <ul> <li>Research, analyze, identify, and evaluate data from assigned problems to evaluate existing and potential trends and issues.</li> <li>Possess and maintain a comprehensive understanding and knowledge of BCBSM business, products, programs (including provider data, networks, etc.), corporate organizational structure (including functional responsibilities), and basic research principles/methodologies.</li> <li>Assist in the management and monitoring of multiple projects simultaneously by establishing project plans and objectives to ensure goal attainment within defined parameters.</li> <li>Communicate results of analysis to management via reports/presentations and assist management in implementing programs that provide solutions.</li> <li>Recommend, communicate, and implement solutions to identified problems/root cause of issues. Provide expertise and guidance to unit and corporate staff as required.</li> <li>Represent and participate in group or committee discussions.</li> <li>Other duties may be assigned.</li> </ul>
Requirements: <p><strong>Qualifications</strong></p> <ul> <li>Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Economics, Health Care, Information Systems, Statistics or another related field is required. Master's Degree in related field preferred.</li> <li>Four (4) or more years of experience in related field required.</li> <li>Strong communication skills are required to understand, interpret, and communicate ideas.</li> <li>Strong knowledge and use of existing software packages (PowerPoint, Excel, Word, etc.).</li> <li>Working knowledge of data languages such as SAS or SQL.</li> <li>Strong analytical, organizational, planning and problem-solving skills.</li> <li>Ability to effectively interface with employees at all levels.</li> <li>Understand and apply statistical inference.</li> <li>Other related skills and/or abilities may be required to perform this job.</li> </ul> <p><strong>EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE</strong></p> <ul> <li>Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Economics, Health Care, Information Systems, Statistics or another related field is required. Master's Degree in related field preferred.</li> <li>Four (4) or more years of experience in related field required.</li> </ul>