About Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota
At Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, we are committed to paving the way for everyone to achieve their healthiest life. We are looking for dedicated and motivated individuals who share our vision of transforming healthcare. As a Blue Cross associate, you are joining a culture that is built on values of succeeding together, finding a better way, and doing the right thing. If you are ready to make a difference, join us.
The Impact You Will Have
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota is looking for a Principal Health Care Analyst to join our Health Service Analytics team! In this role, the Principal Health Care Analyst will drive critical healthcare insights while keeping the engine running. This role blends hands-on analytics and technical ownership, supporting ROI and trend analysis while maintaining and optimizing backend data processes in Databricks, Python, and SQL. You’ll ensure monthly reporting runs seamlessly, troubleshoot and enhance pipelines, and deliver high-impact ad hoc analyses for business partners—ranging from savings opportunities to historical and utilization trends.
Ideal candidates bring strong technical depth, a proactive problem-solving mindset, and the ability to translate complex data into meaningful insights—healthcare domain experience (plan or provider) is a plus.
Your Responsibilities
- Uses databases for analysis and dissemination of information.
- Performs complex analysis of data.
- Researches, analyzes data, applies statistical methods when appropriate, and provides interpretation of outcomes.
- Identifies issues to be researched, determining affected areas, estimating the impact and contributing to the resolution.
- Leads teams to develop analytic approaches, measurement plans, data analysis, and report results on health care utilization, expenditures, outcomes, and benchmarks.
- Initiates actions to discover new analyses that will contribute to the strategic needs of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota.
- Works with leadership to understand and interpret the impacts to cost and quality of proposals using relevant data sources and analytic methods.
- Helps drive the implementation of new products and systems by providing actionable information and recommendations that evaluate the impact of the proposed products and systems.
- Represents the division on corporate projects and may have leadership roles on these teams.
- Independently manages issues that may arise on multiple tasks or projects with limited or no management involvement.
- Acts as a resource and/or mentor for other members of the department an