Company Description
Why Wellmark Technology: Wellmark is building innovative, modern solutions using cutting edge technology. We are driving organizational transformation and business strategy by empowering our technology team to innovate new and elegant solutions to enhance the customer experience. Together, we are leaning into the future, owning the outcome, and driving organizational change to transform how we work.
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Job Description
Responsible for extracting, integrating analyzing, and interpreting data from internal and external data sources, to develop analytical tools that deliver insight to inform recommendations to achieve business goals. Collaborate with team and key business stakeholders to ensure critical business objectives are met by following the analytics lifecycle within assigned domains. Work cross-functionally with business stakeholders to identify risk and provide solutions that drive data-enabled decisions.
Qualifications
Required:
- For consideration, you must meet one of the following educational/technical requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in quantitative discipline such as statistics, mathematics, finance, accounting, computer science, engineering, or economics - OR
- 4 years of direct and applicable work experience with specific experience in data or statistical analysis, including data collection, joins, analysis, statistics and/or data presentation. Specific exposure with hands-on data analysis of databases and files using SQL dialects and statistical programming languages.
- Strong formulas and data visualizations knowledge.
- Exposure to business intelligence or analysis platforms.
- Naturally curious and ability to drive business decisions and solutions.
- Effective communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to present complex information.
- Proactive, self-starter and can manage priorities through effective time management skills.
Preferred:
- Master’s degree.
- Experience working with unstructured data sets.
- Experience building data models and data pipelines with familiarity of data warehousing concepts.
- Strong consultation and presentation skills.
- Experience developing project roadmaps and timelines.
- Experience working with AWS tools such as S3, Glue, Redshift, Athena, Sagemaker, etc.
- Experience developing, testing, and implementing statistical models within a business context.
Additional Information
a. Participate in or conduct discovery sessions and stakeholder interactions to gain business understanding and identify business problem. Understand the project objectives and gather requirements to build a preliminary plan.
b. Research and gather appropriate data from various sources. Source, extract, assemble, collate, and consolidate data needs for the business.
c. Profile and prepare data for analysis.
d. Build and execute models to analyze business outcomes, using tables, graphs, and charts, as well as algorithms, forecasts, and trends.
e. Interpret results, identify key findings to quantify business value.
f. Develop a narrative to summarize and convey findings to stakeholders. Make recommendations based on findings.
g. Create, update, and maintain a production schedule for reporting and ensure reports and presentations are completed on schedule.
h. Manage multiple projects simultaneously and support corporate process improvement initiatives, meeting aggressive timeframes.
i. Collaborate with peers to identify reporting objectives and develop reports and analyses that meet their need and drive Wellmark’s value proposition for stakeholders.
j. Wrangle data from a wide variety of data sets and assemble into normalized and enriched data assets that enables new insights, solutions, and visualizations. Perform and document data profiling, quality assessment, source consolidation, aggregation, and other data manipulation efforts, to understand data formats, source systems, file sizes, etc.
k. Create, update, and maintain documentation and procedures for sourcing, analyzing, and preparing internal reporting and presentations. Ensure the highest quality and integrity of data sources.
l. Other duties as assigned.
An Equal Opportunity Employer
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What We Do
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield and its subsidiaries provide health coverage to more than 2 million members in Iowa and South Dakota. And through the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, Wellmark is part of a trusted national network that insures more than 100 million people. That's nearly 1/3 of all Americans.
Wellmark offers flexible benefit designs, competitive prices, and a large selection of providers. Nearly all physicians and hospitals in Iowa and South Dakota participate with Wellmark, and the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association provides extensive national and international coverage.
*Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield is An Independent Licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association serving Iowa and South Dakota.
