Director, Data Engineering

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

• Requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• Requires at least 10 years of prior relevant experience, including 6 years of management experience
• Requires strong understanding of Agile methodologies, data design/architecture/modelling concepts/data sharing/ELT/Data quality and business intelligence tools
• Requires experience with end-to-end product development lifecycle, including requirements gathering, design, development, testing, and deployment in the context of data products
• Ability to exercise independent judgment and creative problem-solving techniques in a highly complex environment using leading-edge technology and/or integrating diverse technology applications
• Strong background and working knowledge of all phases of systems analysis, design, programming, testing, and implementation
• Effective communicator with a strong customer service orientation, ability to communicate effectively across multiple levels, and lead and influence senior professionals

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:

At Stellarus and the Ascendiun Family of Companies, 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:

• Hybrid (Default): Work from a business unit-approved office at least two (2) times per month (for roles below Director-level) or once per week (for Director-level roles and above).Exceptions:

o Member-facing and approved out-of-state roles remain remote.

o Employees living more than 50 miles from their assigned offices are expected to work with their managers on a plan for periodic office visits.

o 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.

• On-Site: Work from a business unit-approved office an average of four (4) or more days a week.

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.