IT Service Management Specialist

4 weeks ago


El Dorado Hills, California, United States Blue Shield Of California Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled IT Service Management Specialist to join our team at Blue Shield of California. As a key member of our IT Service Management team, you will play a critical role in ensuring the delivery of high-quality IT services to our customers.

Key Responsibilities
  • Coordinate and work in partnership with the business and IT teams to deliver high-quality IT services
  • Act as a trusted advocate to technology specialists in designated areas and work well with them to provide collaborative, achievable, and effective solutions
  • Drive restoration of services and potential root cause identification of incidents and outages
  • Adopt/lead a business and customer-oriented approach to delivering services and cost optimization while focusing on quality improvements
  • Ensure that the deployed IT services are aligned to the business needs and actively support them, and that IT solutions underpin, and anticipate, the business processes
  • Partner with the IT Business Portfolio Owners as an IT agent for change to facilitate business transformation
  • Be one of the first points of contact for service escalations to support swift decision making and course correction
  • Build relationships at Director and Executive level across BSC and partners/vendors and provide regular, clear communications
  • Input to and influence evolution of Service Designs to mature service quality based on learnings from incidents and problems experienced
  • Oversee performance against committed SLAs and SLOs
  • Lead the investigation, diagnosis, root cause analysis phases for critical service outages affecting Business Domains supported
  • Recommend best fit solutions (which may be over phases and short/medium/longer term timelines) and drive cross-functional IT teams to implement these solutions
  • Actively manage IT Incidents as the incident coordinator, ensuring timely and appropriate solutions to issues are delivered resulting in improved quality and increased customer satisfaction
Requirements
  • Requires a Bachelor's degree and at least 7 years related experience or equivalent combination of education and experience
  • Strong communication skills and an ability to articulate complex architectures to non-technical audiences
  • Strong understanding of business domains and applications supporting these domains (membership, claims, billing, etc.)
  • Ability to deep dive on technical issues and provide guidance towards resolution
  • Service delivery experience with large-scale, enterprise IT systems
  • Full stack awareness and the ability to identify and diagnose issues at multiple layers
  • Ability to operate in a high-pressure environment and be comfortable explaining complex technical issues to senior management and above
  • Excellent and proven problem-solving and investigative analysis, root cause analysis skills
  • Ability to effectively present information, business case, change recommendations, and respond to questions from groups of managers and customers
  • Understanding of the healthcare industry and evolution of technologies to support that industry to maintain perspective of future innovation preferred
  • Familiarity with DevSecOps methodologies is a plus
  • Current knowledge of techniques and technologies in continuous integration, continuous deployment, and continuous assessment preferred
  • Experience implementing Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) methodologies preferred
  • Experience implementing and supporting cloud solutions for infrastructure and applications preferred
  • Experience using monitoring tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, Big Panda, and others useful in root cause analysis for application or infrastructure issues preferred
  • Hands-on experience using reporting and analysis software like Service Now, Tableau, and to analyze data and generate reports based on focused data sets preferred
  • ITIL ITSM v4, CMMi, and/or Lean Six Sigma certification
About Blue Shield of California

Blue Shield of California is a nonprofit health plan dedicated to providing high-quality health care at a sustainably affordable price. We are transforming health care in a way that genuinely serves our nonprofit mission by lowering costs, improving quality, and enhancing the member and physician experience.

We strive to make a positive change across our industry and communities - join us

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.

Our Workplace Model:

Blue Shield of California is dedicated to making work-life balance a reality. Whether you prefer to work in an office or from home, we understand flexibility is more important than ever. That's why Blue Shield is a hybrid company, offering you the opportunity to decide where you can do your best and most meaningful work.

Two ways of working: Hybrid (our default) and office

  • Hybrid - In a business unit-approved office a few times per week to 3 days per week, on average
  • Office - In a business unit-approved office 4+ days a week, on average. If the role you're applying for is deemed an Essential Role, the company has determined that the role can only be performed in a Blue Shield office or in the field and would require you to meet the office worker classification.

Physical Requirements:

Office Environment - roles involving part to full-time schedule in Office Environment. Due to the current public health emergency in California, Blue Shield employees are almost all working remotely. Based in our physical offices and work from home office/deskwork - Activity level: Sedentary, frequency most of the workday.

Please click here for further physical requirement detail.

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 regard 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.



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