What are the responsibilities and job description for the DIRECTOR, DATA ENGINEERING position at Blue Shield of California?
Job Description
Your Role
The Data and Analytics (D&A) team focuses enterprise-wide to partner with business stakeholders to apply the power of data & analytics to deliver new insights and data-driven solutions to accelerate business outcomes. The Director, Data Product Engineering will report to the Sr Director, Data Management and Integration. In this role you will deliver trusted data to the organization in line with ongoing evolution in company strategy; ensuring stability and quality while meeting business needs to power the organization. The Director, Data Product Engineering is a critical part of Blue Shield's data-driven transformation and journey of reshaping the world of healthcare.
Blue Shield of California is rapidly transforming our information systems environment and making massive changes to infrastructure, data and analytics platforms, and cloud capabilities to enable our Health Reimagine and Growth strategies and address key issues in production and operations. 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.
Responsibilities
Your Work
In this role, you will :
- Be accountable for ingestion of internal and external data sources into data product environments and owns the data transformations, quality, standardization and observability of data
- Provide leadership to data agile teams through the product lifecycle ensuring alignment to business outcomes, product roadmaps and value streams
- Build scalable and flexible data models and products that use industry standards and serve multiple customers
- Ensure the data products are discoverable in a marketplace and are interoperable, accessible, secure and re-usable
- Partner with Analytics, Application, Security, Cloud and Program Office stakeholders to solve complex problems that impact our customers and business units
- Build strong mature agile product teams that build and maintain data products with data modelling, design, quality, analysis and full stack engineering skills
- Influence and ability to interact with sr. executives on data products effectiveness, TCO, organizational structural changes, strategy, impacts etc.
- Create sustainable products that provide business value at scale with customer centric mindset by consistently engaging with internal and external stakeholders, understand their needs that translate into actionable product requirements
Qualifications
Your Knowledge and Experience
About the Team
Blue Shield of California's mission is to ensure all Californians have access to high-quality health care at a sustainably affordable price. We are transforming health care in a way that genuinely serves our nonprofit mission by lowering costs, improving quality, and enhancing the member and physician experience.
To fulfill our mission, we must ensure a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment where all employees can be their authentic selves and fully contribute to meet the needs of the multifaceted communities we serve. Our continued commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion upholds our values and advances our goal of creating a healthcare system that is worthy of our family and friends while addressing health disparities, promoting social justice, and integrating health equity through our products, business practices, and presence as a corporate citizen.
Blue Shield has received awards and recognition for being a certified Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work, Military Friendly Employer, People Companies that Care, a Leading Disability Employer, and one of California's top companies in volunteering and giving. Here at Blue Shield, we strive to make a positive change across our industry and communities - join us!
Our Values :
Our Workplace Model :
At Blue Shield of California, we believe in fostering a workplace environment that balances purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility. As we continue to evolve our workplace model, our focus remains on creating spaces where our people can connect with purpose - whether working in the office or through a hybrid approach - by providing clear expectations while respecting the diverse needs of our workforce.
Two Ways of Working :
Member-facing and approved out-of-state roles remain remote.
Physical Requirements :
Office Environment - roles involving part to full time schedule in Office Environment. Based in our physical offices and work from home office / deskwork - Activity level : Sedentary, frequency most of work day.
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Equal Employment Opportunity :
External hires must pass a background check / drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest records and / or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, State and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disability status and any other classification protected by Federal, State and local laws.
