Systems Analysis, Consultant

About the role

The Pharmacy Care Management Platform team delivers all IT Pharmacy solutions to support Pharmacy Operations and Pharmacy Transformation. The Systems Analyst-Consultant will report to the Pharmacy Development Senior Manager. In this role, you will be the comprehensive subject matter expert in the technology products/platform feature space and apply, learn, and extend your skills beyond formal role boundaries. Having a desire to help achieve transformational healthcare improvement should serve as the inspiration behind the ideal candidate’s willingness to participate across many different activities within an agile working model.

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

• Drive operational excellence, including but not limited to Incident Management, process automation leveraging AI, and ensuring smooth deployments for your technology products/platform features.
• Automate and modernize release management to support the new Product/Platform and full CI/CD model, leveraging AI tools.
• Provide analytical support and troubleshooting for application-related issues.
• Work directly with the product stakeholders and/or technology product teams to understand the business domain. Recommend the most efficient and cost-effective implementation, leveraging reusable features where possible.
• Understand, document, and communicate upstream/downstream dependencies supporting assigned development areas.
• Assist in creating, refining, and maintaining user stories and associated deliverables such as process flows and test cases to meet development and stakeholder needs.
• Write acceptance criteria and ensure criteria comes to fruition during product demos.
• Actively participate in agile ceremonies (i.e., daily standup, sprint planning, retrospective, and demos), representing the needs and perspectives of your assigned development areas.
• Act as a proxy Product Manager/Scrum Master when necessary.
• Serve as Systems Analyst for more than one technology product line/platform feature team.
• Configure, develop (scripts, queries, reports), test, troubleshoot (system and application log interrogation), evaluate performance, and support (monitoring and impact remediation).
• Collaborate with development teams to integrate new features and improvements.
• Ensure security and compliance standards are met throughout the development and deployment process.
• Lead the team in regular system audits and implement necessary updates and patches.

Qualifications

• Requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Requires at least 7 years of directly related professional experience and deep technical abilities in one or more primary products, programs, or technologies.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills; ability to influence stakeholders and technical counterparts.
• Excellent problem-solving and prioritization skills.
• Requires healthcare knowledge and experience; preferred pharmacy knowledge and experience.
• Requires database understanding and expert-level SQL querying skillset.
• Requires understanding and experience in Agile methodology, Product Model, DevSecOps, and Agile tools.
• Proven ability to function in a fast-moving and rapidly evolving environment.

About Us

Stellarus, launched in January 2025, is designed to scale innovative healthcare solutions that support customers in creating a healthcare experience deserving of their family, friends, and neighbors. Stellarus is part of a family of organizations overseen by a nonprofit corporate entity named Ascendiun. The Ascendiun Family of Companies also includes Blue Shield of California and its subsidiary, Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan, and Altais, a clinical services company.

Stellarus’ vision is to empower its customers to create a healthcare experience that is worthy of their family, friends, and neighbors. Stellarus’ objective is to offer innovative, modern, scalable solutions that challenge the healthcare status quo. This closely aligns with Blue Shield of California’s vision by using innovation to improve quality, affordability, and experience for members.

To achieve our mission, we foster an environment where all employees can thrive and contribute fully to address the needs of the various communities we serve. We are committed to creating and maintaining a supportive workplace that upholds our values and advances our goals.

Our Values

At Stellarus, our core values of agility, trust, drive, courage, and service shape our approach to developing innovative product offerings.

Our Workplace Model

We believe in fostering a workplace environment that balances purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility—providing clear expectations while respecting the diverse needs of our workforce. Our workplace model is designed around intentional in-person interaction, collaboration, connection, creativity, and flexibility:

• For most teams, this means coming into the office two days per week.
• Employees living more than 50 miles from an office location, out-of-state employees, and employees in certain member-facing roles should work with their manager to determine in-office time based on business need.
• For employees with medical conditions that may impact their ability to work in-office, we are committed to engaging in an interactive process and providing reasonable accommodations to ensure their work environment is conducive to their success and well-being.

The Company reserves the right to require more presence in the office based on business needs, and requirements are subject to change with periodic reviews.

Physical Requirements

Office Environment – roles involving part to full-time schedule in an office environment. Based in our physical offices and work from home office/deskwork – Activity level: Sedentary, frequency most of the workday.

Pay

Pay Range for California: $111,540.00 to $167,420.00

Pay Range for Bay Area: $125,736.00 to $188,728.00

Note: This range represents the pay range for this and many other positions at Blue Shield that fall into this pay grade. Blue Shield salaries are based on a variety of factors, including candidate experience, location (California, Bay Area, or outside California), and current employee salaries for similar roles.

Schedule

Full time

Locations: Oakland, CA; Long Beach, CA; El Dorado Hills, CA; Lodi, CA; Rancho Cordova, CA; San Diego, CA; Woodland Hills, CA, United States