Premera Blue Cross

Manage strategic planning, operational roadmaps, and drive process modernization through technology and AI. | Bachelor's degree and five years experience in strategic programs, business operations, or project management with strong business acumen. | Workforce Classification: Hybrid Join Our Team: Do Meaningful Work and Improve People’s Lives Our purpose, to improve customers’ lives by making healthcare work better, is far from ordinary. And so are our employees. Working at Premera means you have the opportunity to drive real change by transforming healthcare. Premera is committed to being a workplace where people feel empowered to grow, innovate, and lead with purpose. By investing in our employees and fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous development, we’re able to better serve our customers. It’s this commitment that has earned us recognition as one of the best companies to work for. Learn more about our recent awards and recognitions as a greatest workplace. Learn how Premera supports our members, customers and the communities that we serve through our Healthsource blog: https://healthsource.premera.com/. Do you enjoy bringing structure to complexity and helping teams turn priorities into results? As a Business Manager supporting Enterprise Execution, Claims, and the Federal Employee Program (FEP), you will work alongside leaders to strengthen planning, improve business operations, and advance shared priorities to improve the experience of our members and providers. You'll join a team that values innovation, continuous improvement, relationships and fresh thinking. If you're someone who thrives in ambiguity, enjoys connecting people and processes, and is eager to leverage technology and AI to make work better, this is an opportunity to leave your mark on a critical area of the business. Why Join Us? Drive Enterprise Impact: Partner with leaders across the enterprise to influence priorities, coordinate strategic initiatives, and support decision-making with the end goal of improving the member experience. Bring New Ideas to Life: Challenge the status quo, identify opportunities for improvement, and modernize processes through technology, automation, and AI-enabled solutions. Your ideas will be welcomed, heard, and supported. Develop Broad Business Expertise: Gain exposure to strategic planning, financial management, workforce planning, performance management, enterprise reporting, communications, and operational performance across a complex organization. Collaborate with Exceptional Leaders: Work alongside leaders who value strategic partnership, thoughtful problem solving, and strong business acumen while giving you the autonomy to contribute and grow. What You Will Do: Strategic Planning & Business Operations Partner with leaders to manage strategic planning cycles, priorities, objectives, roadmaps, OKRs, and execution plans. Facilitate the rhythm of the business through leadership meetings, performance reviews, strategic priority discussions, and cross-functional planning. Anticipate business needs, identify risks and opportunities, and recommend solutions that support organizational goals. Enterprise Execution & Organizational Effectiveness Support enterprise-wide planning, governance, scorecard reviews, performance reporting, and strategic change efforts. Partner across functions to align priorities, facilitate business reviews, and connect people, information, and processes to advance enterprise execution. Support organizational effectiveness initiatives, including restructuring, operational improvements, vendor transitions, employee engagement, and team effectiveness. Build relationships across the BCBSA system to learn best practices and ensure understanding of new BCBSA initiatives in order to drive execution internally. Performance Reporting & Communication Coordinate monthly and quarterly business reviews, performance discussions, and leadership reporting. Develop executive dashboards, scorecards, metrics, and performance indicators that translate insights into action. Create executive-ready presentations, briefings, communications, and business updates for leadership audiences. Financial Planning, Innovation & Continuous Improvement Support financial planning, forecasting, business cases, budgets, workforce planning, headcount management, and capacity planning. Evaluate operational, financial, and strategic tradeoffs and recommend actions that support organizational objectives. Drive process improvement and modernization by leveraging technology, data, automation, and AI-enabled tools to streamline work and improve decision-making. What You Will Bring: Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Healthcare Administration, Finance, Operations, or a related field; or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Five years of experience developing, implementing, supporting, or improving strategic programs, business processes, or operational initiatives through program management, project management, change management, business operations, or a combination of these areas. Strong business acumen and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, highly matrixed environment. Proven ability to partner with leaders, advance business priorities, and coordinate cross-functional initiatives while navigating ambiguity and competing priorities. Aptitude for identifying process-improvement opportunities and leveraging technology, automation, and AI to improve efficiency, innovation, and business outcomes. An ability to thrive in ambiguous situations and independently solve complex, undefined problems. A customer-focused mindset that can relate business operations to the end goal of improving the experience for our members and providers. Premera total rewards Our comprehensive total rewards package provides support, resources, and opportunities to help employees thrive and grow. Our total rewards are more than a collection of perks, they're a reflection of our commitment to your health and well-being. We offer a broad array of rewards including physical, financial, emotional, and community benefits, including: Medical, vision, and dental coverage with low employee premiums. Voluntary benefit offerings, including pet insurance for paw parents. Life and disability insurance. Retirement programs, including a 401K employer match and, believe it or not, a pension plan that is vested after 3 years of service. Wellness incentives with a wide range of mental well-being resources for you and your dependents, including counseling services, stress management programs, and mindfulness programs, just to name a few. Generous paid time off to reenergize. Looking for continuing education? We have tuition assistance for both undergraduate and graduate degrees. Employee recognition program to celebrate anniversaries, team accomplishments, and more. For our hybrid employees, our on-campus model provides flexibility to create your own routine with access to on-site resources, networking opportunities, and team engagement. Commuter perks make your trip to work less impactful on the environment and your wallet. Free convenient on-site parking. Subsidized on-campus cafes make lunchtime connections with colleagues fun and affordable. Participate in engaging on-site activities such as health and wellness events, coffee connects, disaster preparedness fairs and more. Our complementary fitness & well-being center offers both in-person and virtual workouts and nutritional counseling. Need a brain break? Challenge someone to a game of shuffleboard or ping pong while on campus. Equal employment opportunity/affirmative action: Premera is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Premera seeks to attract and retain the most qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other protected characteristic under applicable law. If you need an accommodation to apply online for positions at Premera, please contact Premera Human Resources via email at careers@premera.com or via phone at 425-918-4785. The pay for this role will vary based on a range of factors including, but not limited to, a candidate’s geographic location, market conditions, and specific skills and experience. The salary range for this role is posted below; we generally target up to and around the midpoint of the range. National Plus Salary Range: $101,900.00 - $173,200.00 *National Plus salary range is used in higher cost of labor markets including Western Washington and Alaska. We’re happy to discuss compensation further during the interview because we believe that open communication leads to better outcomes for all. We’re committed to creating an environment where all employees are celebrated for their unique skills and contributions.

Define end-to-end testing and healthcare-specific test strategies, provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and oversee vendor compliance. | Bachelor's degree in computer science or information systems with 8+ years software development experience, preferably in healthcare or regulated environments. | Workforce Classification: Telecommuter Join Our Team: Do Meaningful Work and Improve People’s Lives Our purpose, to improve customers’ lives by making healthcare work better, is far from ordinary. And so are our employees. Working at Premera means you have the opportunity to drive real change by transforming healthcare. Premera is committed to being a workplace where people feel empowered to grow, innovate, and lead with purpose. By investing in our employees and fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous development, we’re able to better serve our customers. It’s this commitment that has earned us recognition as one of the best companies to work for. Learn more about our recent awards and recognitions as a greatest workplace. Learn how Premera supports our members, customers and the communities that we serve through our Healthsource blog: https://healthsource.premera.com/. About the role of the Quality Engineer IV Are you interested in defining and driving quality? Do you enjoy taking the lead on projects and mentoring less experienced engineers? Then, the Quality Engineer IV (QE IV) in Premera’s IT Engineering department may be the role for you. The QE IV will have a critical role in filling a gap in Premera’s Quality Engineering capability by introducing dedicated healthcare domain expertise to define end-to-end testing requirements across all programs and production operations. The QE IV will be accountable for defining what must be validated from a member, provider, and claims perspective, ensuring that testing reflects real-world healthcare workflows and regulatory requirements. In this position, the QE IV will help lead a partnership with product, engineering, and testing teams to map end-to-end customer journeys, translate business processes into comprehensive test scenarios, and identify critical edge cases, data dependencies, and compliance considerations. In addition, the Quality Engineer IV leads healthcare-specific test data strategy, defining data models and reusable datasets that support accurate, compliant, and scalable testing, including enterprise initiatives such as AI-driven test data management. This Engineer complements the existing Quality Engineering (QE) structure by establishing clear accountability for domain-driven test definition, enabling technical QE resources to focus on execution strategy and automation, and allowing vendor teams to efficiently execute against well-defined scenarios. What you’ll do Partner with business and IT leaders to identify and understand multi-faceted problems or improvement opportunities. Partner with the development teams, business partners, architecture, and customers to understand project requirements, provide technical excellence and oversight, and resolve technical challenges guaranteeing code quality. Serve as the primary engineering and strategic implementation partners, ensuring clear, effective , and timely communication. Oversee the review process of code, ensuring compliance with best practices, Premera standards, and architectural guidelines. Responsible for vendor oversight and code sign-off ensuring an effective relationship and high-quality outcomes of vendor work. Analyze project data and metrics to identify trends, patterns, and areas of concern, and make data-driven recommendations to enhance the delivery of software. Train and enforce governance processes to ensure compliance with company standards, best practices, and regulatory requirements. Oversee engineering excellence and continuous automation. This includes testing associated with cross-functional project team and in-team efforts. Act as technical and business leader sharing knowledge, and expertise with others inside team as well as with other customers. Proactively contribute to knowledge sharing across Premera developer community. Stay current in best practices, technology trends and the organization’s business while mentoring and sharing knowledge gained with others. Maintain expertise in one or more technical areas. Provide advice and mentoring to other engineers. Perform other duties as assigned. What you’ll bring Bachelor’s degree in computer science or information systems. (Required) Eight (8) years of software development experience, knowledge of software development lifecycle, and skills to utilize one or more programming languages. (Required) Experience in healthcare industry or a highly regulated environment. (Strongly Preferred) Experience working with cloud solutions. (Preferred) Technical knowledge and experience with specific technical tools used at Premera (i.e. Facets) or required for open position. (Preferred) Previous experience in an Agile environment. (Preferred) Exposure to API and service-based technologies. (Preferred) Experience using and creating automated test tools. (Preferred) Premera total rewards Our comprehensive total rewards package provides support, resources, and opportunities to help employees thrive and grow. Our total rewards are more than a collection of perks, they're a reflection of our commitment to your health and well-being. We offer a broad array of rewards including physical, financial, emotional, and community benefits, including: Medical, vision, and dental coverage with low employee premiums. Voluntary benefit offerings, including pet insurance for paw parents. Life and disability insurance. Retirement programs, including a 401K employer match and, believe it or not, a pension plan that is vested after 3 years of service. Wellness incentives with a wide range of mental well-being resources for you and your dependents, including counseling services, stress management programs, and mindfulness programs, just to name a few. Generous paid time off to reenergize. Looking for continuing education? We have tuition assistance for both undergraduate and graduate degrees. Employee recognition program to celebrate anniversaries, team accomplishments, and more. For our hybrid employees, our on-campus model provides flexibility to create your own routine with access to on-site resources, networking opportunities, and team engagement. Commuter perks make your trip to work less impactful on the environment and your wallet. Free convenient on-site parking. Subsidized on-campus cafes make lunchtime connections with colleagues fun and affordable. Participate in engaging on-site activities such as health and wellness events, coffee connects, disaster preparedness fairs and more. Our complementary fitness & well-being center offers both in-person and virtual workouts and nutritional counseling. Need a brain break? Challenge someone to a game of shuffleboard or ping pong while on campus. Equal employment opportunity/affirmative action: Premera is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Premera seeks to attract and retain the most qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other protected characteristic under applicable law. If you need an accommodation to apply online for positions at Premera, please contact Premera Human Resources via email at careers@premera.com or via phone at 425-918-4785. Premera is hiring in the following states, with some limitations based on role or city: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin. The pay for this role will vary based on a range of factors including, but not limited to, a candidate’s geographic location, market conditions, and specific skills and experience. The salary range for this role is posted below; we generally target up to and around the midpoint of the range. National Salary Range: $118,900.00 - $202,100.00 National Plus Salary Range: $135,600.00 - $230,500.00 *National Plus salary range is used in higher cost of labor markets including Western Washington and Alaska. We’re happy to discuss compensation further during the interview because we believe that open communication leads to better outcomes for all. We’re committed to creating an environment where all employees are celebrated for their unique skills and contributions.