Your Role In this role, you will lead end-to-end analysis for complex initiatives, translating business outcomes into solution options, detailed requirements, and actionable recommendations. You will partner with business, product, engineering, and testing teams from discovery through release, support implementation readiness, and mentor junior analysts to strengthen analysis quality and team standards. 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.
Your Work
In this role, you will:
- Lead end-to-end analysis for complex initiatives, from discovery and requirements definition through testing, release, and business readiness.
- Analyze business functions and existing or proposed systems to identify application, integration, data-processing, and process-improvement needs.
- Translate business outcomes into solution options, evaluate tradeoffs, and recommend efficient, cost-effective approaches that leverage reusable capabilities.
- Define detailed functional requirements, system specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria, maintaining traceability to business outcomes and test scenarios.
- Prepare process flows, charts, diagrams, and data mappings to support problem analysis, communicate dependencies, and guide implementation by development teams.
- Develop solution approaches aligned with established architecture and integration standards, partnering with engineering teams responsible for implementation.
- Define system integration test scenarios, support user acceptance testing, and coordinate system installations and release readiness with user departments and delivery teams.
- Provide analytical support for system-related issues, identifying impacts, dependencies, and recommended improvements.
- Mentor junior analysts and improve the quality and consistency of analysis artifacts, templates, and practices.
Required Knowledge and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree or High School Diploma/GED and 4 years of additional relevant experience in lieu of a degree
- 5 years of prior relevant experience
- Demonstrated experience leading end-to-end analysis for complex initiatives from discovery through release.
- Ability to translate business outcomes into solution options, tradeoffs, and recommendations.
- Strong requirements practices, including detailed specifications, traceability, testability, and support for UAT and release readiness.
- Ability to mentor junior analysts and improve team standards, templates, and analysis quality.
- Strong communication, stakeholder collaboration, problem-solving, and prioritization skills.
Preferred Knowledge and Experience
- Experience with complex integrations and data mapping, including APIs, ETL, and event-based patterns.
- Experience facilitating workshops or JAD sessions and driving decisions with cross-functional stakeholders.
- Familiarity with product or portfolio planning and developing level-of-effort estimates.
- Knowledge of security and privacy concepts and controls relevant to business applications.
- Experience defining and tracking KPIs to measure outcomes and support continuous improvement.
Our Values
- Honest. We hold ourselves to the highest ethical and integrity standards. We build trust by doing what we say we're going to do and by acknowledging and correcting where we fall short.
- Human. We strive to be our authentic selves, listening and communicating effectively, and showing empathy towards others by walking in their shoes.
- Courageous. We stand up for what we believe in and are committed to the hard work necessary to achieve our ambitious goals.
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.