Position Description/Responsibilities:

This position is responsible for managing a matrixed team that analyzes requirements, designs, develops, tests, and implements major data releases and initiatives, coordinating across technologies, and as appropriate, manages relationships between the Information Management and Analytics Department and internal/external client organizations.
Position includes management of department/project budgets, workload balancing and developing strategies and processes, and understanding the technical components of a variety of data repositories, and leading process improvement projects.

Position Requirements/Technical Skills:
Bachelors Degree with 4 years data warehouse experience OR 8 years data warehouse experience

Experience with the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) and EDW project implementation and management

Ability to develop and manage major releases to data warehouses and/or data marts

Ability to manage program management teams

Ability to develop, coordinate and maintain project and departmental budgets and cost/expense information

Ability to build strong working relationships with business and technical colleagues at varying levels of information-based solution understanding.

Ability to build successful team environment

Ability to assess impact of planned implementations on production environment

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Proficiency in Microsoft Project, Word, PowerPoint and Excel, including charts and graphs

Organizational and time management skills, with ability to work under pressure and to adhere to deadlines

Proven technical, analytical and troubleshooting and problem solving ability.
Preferred Skills Required: Bachelors Degree in related field is preferred.

A broad understanding of the health care industry and its related processes is beneficial, however, similar experience in other business fields will also be considered favorably.

Data integration experience

PMP designation.

SDM training for Project Management OR system development life cycle methodology experience

Strong collaboration skills

Self-motivated, with little or no supervision required

Knowledge of BCBS operations

Understanding of Cognos, Teradata, and IBM DataStage toolsets/product lines