You could be the one who changes everything for our 28 million members by using technology to improve health outcomes around the world. As a diversified, national organization, Centene's technology professionals have access to competitive benefits including a fresh perspective on workplace flexibility.

Position Purpose: Drives the collaboration with business and IT stakeholders to translate complex business requirements into comprehensive functional and non-functional technical specifications, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and solution design.

• Develops and/or reviews departmental business system requirements and business systems design documents, customer acceptance test plans, and post-implementation plans. May include review and audit of deliverables produced by other team members.
• Designs, implements, and ensures that database systems achieve 100% uptime with 24/7/365 operational availability
• Develops proposed systems which meet the required database and interface specifications, based upon identified business needs
• Optimizes database administration tasks including configuration management, backup/recovery, performance tuning, monitoring, and space management
• Troubleshoots and resolves critical problems across various tiers in the database systems
• Researches and provides both business and technical solutions based on business needs and specifications and deploys them into the production infrastructure following change management procedures
• Monitors, tests, analyzes and evaluates the existing infrastructure environment and optimize it based on resiliency, technological advancements, and cost
• Monitors and review levels of IT services specified in the service-level agreements (SLAs) with the business
• Acts as a lead over a team of business systems analysts, as necessary, managing analytical resources, scheduling project work, assigning projects and tasks to team members, and reporting overall team status and accomplishments to management.
• Maintains system protocols by writing and updating procedures
• Provides references for users by writing and maintaining user documentation; provide help desk support; train users
• Prepares technical reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends
• Involved in clarifying requirements and implementing solutions that meet the business needs
• Documents business requirements and potential solutions for system functionality and reporting needs
• Produces documentation on operational run books, business and technical solutions, and overall technology concepts
• Complies with all policies and standards

Education/Experience: A Bachelor's degree in a quantitative or business field (e.g., statistics, mathematics, engineering, computer science) and Requires 4 – 6 years of related experience.

Or equivalent experience acquired through accomplishments of applicable knowledge, duties, scope and skill reflective of the level of this position.

Technical Skills:

• Database Skills - Snowflake (Preferred), Oracle, PLSQL, SQL Server, Terradata
• ETL Development SSIS or Informatica (Preferred)
• Programming Skills with Python (Preferred) or PowerShell
• SQL Programming Language
• Report Development with SSRS or Power BI

Soft Skills:

• Health Care Industry Experience
• Good Communication Skills
• Ability to Multi-Task

Centene offers a comprehensive benefits package including: competitive pay, health insurance, 401K and stock purchase plans, tuition reimbursement, paid time off plus holidays, and a flexible approach to work with remote, hybrid, field or office work schedules. Actual pay will be adjusted based on an individual's skills, experience, education, and other job-related factors permitted by law, including full-time or part-time status. Total compensation may also include additional forms of incentives. Benefits may be subject to program eligibility.

Centene is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity, and values the ways in which we are different. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered in accordance with the LA County Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act