About Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota

At Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota we are committed to paving the way for everyone to achieve their healthiest life. We are looking for dedicated and motivated individuals who share our vision of transforming healthcare. As a Blue Cross associate you are joining a culture that is built on values of succeeding together finding a better way and doing the right thing. If you are ready to make a difference join us.

The Impact You Will Have

The primary function of this position is to provide leadership facilitation analysis design and execution in a cloud database architecture. Your primary focus will be on team management work planning and ensuring stakeholder needs are met. Expectations are to address business requirements selecting the right cloud solutions that provides scalability security performance and reliability. Will work closely with the cloud engineering architecture software engineering analytics and product teams to design database applications operational models and solutions including interfaces data transfer mechanisms and partitions optimizations to enable efficient access and automated operations on cloud native databases.

Your Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively with all levels of business stakeholders to design implement and test data solutions from disparate sources. Serve as the primary point of contact between data engineering teams and product owners.
• Demonstrate an understanding of concepts best practices and functions to implement a modern data platform in an enterprise environment. Translate business requirements into technical designs. Ensure scalability and high availability fault tolerance and elasticity within data ecosystem.
• Facilitate architectural alignment and direction across teams. Understand data engineering concepts and tools well enough to comprehend what teams are building ask informed questions and identify potential risks or blockers.
• Demonstrate thought leadership and interpersonal skills. Passionate about leading guiding and mentoring others. Collaborate with business partners to drive adoption and optimization of the analytics platform. Manage and develop data engineering teams fostering a collaborative and innovative culture.
• Defines data standards policies and procedures for the organization. Identify and deliver infrastructure and process improvements based on analytics metrics and skills. Champion automation mindset across the organizationboth technical (CI/CD infrastructure-as-code automated testing AI-assisted development tools) and process-based (standardizing and automating how data is sent received validated and moved through systems to reduce manual effort and improve reliability).
• Lead and mentor engineers and technical leads. Perform design reviews of solutions to ensure the design aligns and supports the specified architecture. Oversee sprint planning backlog grooming and resource allocation. Facilitate regular reviews and retrospectives to improve processes and outcomes. Track team performance and delivery timelines using metrics to drive accountability.
• Ability to establish and maintain a high level of trust confidence and intellectual integrity with both Business and IT partners. Lead by example influence and shape outlook and attitudes to facilitate change from a tactical to a strategic oriented enterprise.

Required Skills and Experience

• 5 years of related professional experience. All relevant experience including work education transferable skills and military experience will be considered.
• 2 years in a management team lead or organizational leadership role.
• Demonstrated success managing and developing technical teams to deliver complex projects.
• Proven ability to translate business needs into team objectives and actionable plans.
• Experience and knowledge of a modern data platform and cloud-based solutions.
• Familiarity with AWS Google or Azure technologies.
• Experience leading cloud database design integration data ingestion efforts.
• Strong organizational communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience facilitating sprint planning backlog management and team retrospectives.
• Ability to lead initiatives and people toward common goals.
• Excellent written and verbal communication presentation and analytical skills.
• Ability to quickly learn new technologies adapt to new environments and function within a team.
• High school diploma (or equivalency) and legal authorization to work in the U.S.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Data Engineering Information Systems Healthcare Informatics or related field.
• Experience in healthcare data operations claims processing or regulatory compliance (CMS HEDIS EDI).
• Project Management experience with agile and project management methodologies (Scrum and/or Kanban) a plus.
• Technical literacy with data engineering tools and concepts (SQL python AI cloud platforms like AWS or Azure ETL/ELT processes data pipelines).
• Experience standardizing engineering practices across teams (coding standards documentation code review processes).
  

Role Designation

Anchored in Connection

Our hybrid approach is designed to balance flexibility with meaningful in-person connection and collaboration. We come together in the office two days each week most teams designate at least one anchor day to ensure team interaction. These in-person moments foster relationships creativity and alignment. The rest of the week you are empowered to work remote.

Compensation and Benefits

Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position including skills ability and knowledge the selected individual is bringing to the specific job.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package which may include:

• Medical dental and vision insurance

• Life insurance

• 401k

• Paid Time Off (PTO)

• Volunteer Paid Time Off (VPTO)

• And more

To discover more about what we have to offer please review our benefits page.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

At Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota we are committed to paving the way for everyone to achieve their healthiest life. Blue Cross of Minnesota is an Equal Opportunity Employer and maintains an Affirmative Action plan as required by Minnesota law applicable to state contractors. All qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to and will not be discriminated against based on any legally protected characteristic.

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