Title : Medical Informatics Analyst
Job Type : Full Time
Location : California, United States

Your role

The Operations Analytics team supports back-office operations stakeholders with dashboarding, analytic studies, and statistical modeling to drive a better member/provider experience while reducing both administrative and healthcare costs. The Medical Informatics Analyst, Senior will report to the Sr. Manager of Operations Analytics. In this role you will provide analytic support to the operations team which involves defining a business problem, developing an analytic framework, and producing analytically driven insights and solutions that support transformational initiatives improving health care operations, efficiency, and member experience.

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:

Analyze structured and unstructured data to size and solve different business problems which can include uncovering pain points, performing root cause analysis, recommending, and sizing improvements for prioritization
Build complex data sets from disparate sources with required linkages to enable analytics
Use statistics, text mining, topic modeling, predictive modeling to answer business questions and generate insights/outcomes that relate to solving business problems
Develop reports and dashboards to empower stakeholder decision making
Work directly with business stakeholders and leaders to become an “embedded” analytic partner who understands the business and is ready to contribute directly to meeting stakeholder goals

Qualifications

Your Knowledge and Experience

Requires an MPH, MBA, MS, MA, RN, or RHIA in health science, quantitative social science, public health, health services research or business, or BA/BS with demonstrated equivalent work experience
Requires at least 5 years of prior relevant experience
Requires at least 3 years of experience in Health Care (managed care, academic, or gov’t payer)
Requires proficiency in SAS, R, or Python (preferred) for data wrangling, automation, and creating statistical and machine learning models
Requires advanced level skill with SQL, Excel, data visualization (Tableau preferred), query tuning, various database models (normalized / dimensional / data vault / etc.)
Requires high level of curiosity, superior conceptualization, and problem-solving skills
Desire proficiency in statistics, regression techniques, text mining, predictive modeling
Desire proficiency in agile methodology, confluence, Jira, etc.
Desire proficiency in cloud-based computing and data platforms (Azure, Google Cloud, BigQuery, Snowflake, DataBricks)
Requires SAS Certified Base Programmer Credential or equivalent.

About The Team

About Stellarus and the Ascendiun Family of Companies

Stellarus, launched in January 2025, is designed to scale innovative healthcare solutions that support customers in creating a health care experience deserving of their family, friends, and neighbors.

Stellarus is part of a family of organizations that is 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 health care status quo. This very 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 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.