Blue Shield of California · 17 hours ago
Solution Design Lead, Consultant
Oakland, CA, United States
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$139K/yr - $208K/yr
10+ years expBlue Shield of California is looking for a Solution Design Lead, Consultant to join their Data Services team. This role involves partnering with various teams to design and implement cloud data solutions and drive data products to meet enterprise needs.
Financial ServicesHealth InsuranceNon Profit
No H1B
Responsibilities
Expert in driving strong collaboration with business and technology stakeholders to define product strategy, business, and technology requirements, use cases, and new capabilities
Develop and maintain technology inventory and definitions, including application reference models, guiding principles, standards, patterns, and usage guidelines
Design and implement cloud solutions. Ability to perform risk identification and mitigation. Able to provide issue management recommendations as required
Able to articulate best practices around advanced cloud-based solutions and provide advice on strategies for migrating existing workloads to the cloud
Able to provide recommendations on designing cost effective data infrastructure that supports complex data analytics services
Socialize and champion technology related ideas and plans with internal IT teams and business stakeholders
Exhibit thought leadership. Evangelize data and analytics solutions that benefit business stakeholders
Familiarity with DevOps best practices and automation of documentation, testing, build, deployment, configuration, and monitoring
Work closely with data engineers and data analyst teams, utilizing agile methodologies to plan and prioritize product backlog
Partner with Portfolios to enable, architect, implement and define the technical requirements, principles and models that guide data solution decisions for on-prem, cloud and hybrid ecosystem
Provide comprehensive analytical thinking to ensure time to market, cost impact and value are properly understood, estimated, and controlled across people, process, and technology
Monitor and analyze the performance of data product, identify areas of improvement or optimization to enhance the data product and its features
Qualification
Required
Requires a college degree or equivalent experience and a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience
Expert in understanding data management practices, data modelling (data vault 2.0), master data management, data integration, data architecture, data virtualization, data warehousing, data privacy and security
Hands on experience with SQL, Python, Collibra, Reltio Master Data Management, DBT Cloud and DBT core. Expert in one or more of NoSQL and database appliances and platforms (Snowflake, Synapse, Databricks)
Prior experience in data product management is a must. This includes skills with creating roadmaps, converting business requirements to technical stories, feature prioritization and working collaboratively across cross-functional teams
Excellent Communication skills for engaging with stakeholders, facilitating discussions, and conveying complex technical concepts. Ability to lead and influence stakeholders while maintaining data quality standards and delivering a high-quality data product is desired
Advance knowledge in designing solutions for large data warehouses with a good understanding of cluster and parallel architecture
Adept in agile methodologies, such as Scrum or Kanban, is required for managing product backlog, sprint planning and facilitating agile development
Knowledgeable of Source Control and Project Management tools like Bitbucket, Git, and JIRA
Company
Blue Shield of California
Blue Shield of California is a health insurance service provider.
5001-10000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Gary Culp
Senior Vice President, Government Markets
Gregory Siebert
Senior Vice President Provider Partnerships & Network Management
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