Excellus BCBS · 1 day ago
BI Admin I/II/III
Latham, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Entry, Mid, Senior Level
$60K/yr - $96K/yr
6+ years expExcellus BCBS is seeking a BI Administrator responsible for designing, developing, implementing, securing, and maintaining Business Intelligence software environments. The role involves collaborating with project teams and external vendors to support data-driven decision making and ensure the effective use of BI tools across the organization.
Health CareHealth InsuranceNon Profit
Responsibilities
Installs, configures, administers, and troubleshoots BI software environments in order to achieve reliable, highly available, well performing systems
Conducts testing, systems troubleshooting, performance optimization and maintenance of BI and analytical platforms
Conducts, monitors and maintains system configuration and backups. Monitors system uptime and performance
Provides direct technical support to BI user community, triages and engages support of appropriate personnel when needed or BI technical support is not sufficient. Performs and streamlines functions such as managing user and system accounts, network rights and access to BI, analytical and related integrated systems
Creates and maintains documentation, standards and policies for the form, structure and attributes of the BI applications and systems
Research new and upcoming technology
Consistently demonstrates high standards of integrity by supporting the Lifetime Healthcare Companies’ mission and values, adhering to the Corporate Code of Conduct, and leading to the Lifetime Way values and beliefs
Maintains high regard for member privacy in accordance with the corporate privacy policies and procedures
Regular and reliable attendance is expected and required
Performs other functions as assigned by management
Serves as a technical expert and mentor to the organization on the administration of BI tools
Develops, documents, and enforces policies needed to maintain the integrity of the BI system
Interfaces with development teams, software vendors and other parties to ensure BI system best accommodates their needs and makes changes where necessary
Proactively plans for growth, system improvements, upgrades and other system activities
Defines and leads training seminars, users’ groups and other educational activities for the organization’s BI user community
Advises others of technical/business directions, issues and needs. Assists in development of presentations as a technical or subject matter expert
Identifies and documents best practices and makes recommendations for standards improvements
Interacts regularly with business area partners at a high-level presenting recommendations and statuses
Proactively identifies system risks/issues and provides recommendations
Acts as a subject matter expert across a wide range of BI software components, systems, and vendors
Responsible for developing, implementing and planning a strategic BI environment crossing multiple lines of business and influencing manager and director levels
Identifies and provides long term strategy alignment updates. Considers changes in technology or direction and risks/impacts across organization
Mentors and trains other team members
Offers the highest level of technical expertise within the team and works as a consultant on the most complex technical BI issues across the organization
Continuously optimizes the enterprises analytics assets, including driving change on BI development/administration teams, IT platform teams and business partners
Provides leadership with recommendations and status updates through presentations and meetings
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field. In lieu of a degree six (6) cumulative years of experience required
Prior professional, internship, or co-op experience in reporting or analytical platforms preferred
Experience with Business Intelligence, visualization and data science technologies such as, but not limited to, Cognos, Power BI, SAS, Databricks, SQL, R, python
Understanding of data warehousing and database design using, but not limited to, Oracle, Azure SQL, AWS Redshift or other database management system
Demonstrated skills in quality principles especially root cause analysis and technical problem-solving
Flexibility to learn and work with a variety of technologies
Understanding of application delivery, management structures and reporting procedures
Effective communication skills both written and verbal, and across multiple channels of communication
Intermediate experience in BI and data science technologies, data warehousing, database design involving, but not limited to, Cognos, Power BI, SAS, Databricks, SQL, R, python, Oracle, Azure SQL
Intermediate experience in operating systems (windows, Linux) and cloud platforms (Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Databricks)
Intermediate experience in SQL, SAS, python, power shell or other related programming languages
Intermediate experience in securing data and analytical platforms using Active Directory or application-based security roles, including Role-Based security practices
Intermediate experience in SDLC and DevOps practices
Experience in developing training, process documentation and facilitating presentations
Extensive, advanced experience in BI and data science technologies, data warehousing, database design involving, but not limited to, Cognos, Power BI, SAS, Databricks, SQL, R, python, Oracle, Azure SQL
Extensive experience in operating systems (windows, Linux) and cloud platforms (Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Databricks)
Advanced experience in SQL, SAS, python, power shell or other related programming languages
Extensive experience in securing data and analytical platforms in Azure, AWS or application-based security roles, including Role-Based security practices
Extensive experience in SDLC and DevOps practices
Extensive experience in presenting technical information to key stakeholders across all levels of the organization
Preferred
Prior professional, internship, or co-op experience in reporting or analytical platforms preferred
Master's degree preferred
Benefits
Participation in group health and/or dental insurance
Retirement plan
Wellness program
Paid time away from work
Paid holidays
Company
Excellus BCBS
Excellus BlueCross BlueShield, a nonprofit independent licensee of the BlueCross BlueShield Association, is part of a family of companies that finances and delivers vital health care services to about 1.5 million people across upstate New York.
5001-10000 employees
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