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Kaiser Permanente

Integrated healthcare provider and payer platform

IT Consultant 4 - Solutions

Enterprise ApplicationsPosted on Nov 9
Full-timePleasanton, CA, USANo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience configuring Oracle HCM Benefits and Absence Management, including plans and programs, eligibility, enrollment rules, accruals, absence plans, and related business rules.
  • Strong functional knowledge of Benefits and Leave/Absence processes, and the ability to translate business requirements into effective system configuration.
  • Experience troubleshooting complex configuration and production issues, including understanding downstream impacts to payroll, eligibility, integrations, and employee transactions.
  • Working knowledge of Oracle HCM integrations and data structures, including HDL/HSDL, extracts, interfaces, and how Benefits/Absence configuration interacts with other HCM modules.
  • Experience supporting testing and releases, including configuration validation, regression and user acceptance testing support, defect resolution, and deployment of configuration changes.
  • A bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, CIS, or a related field, plus at least six years of experience in IT consulting, business analysis, or a related field; equivalent work experience may substitute for the degree requirement.

Responsibilities

  • Provide support for customers, assigned applications, and information systems, including software implementation, integration, configuration, and testing.
  • Support solution design, research ways to translate requirements into workable technical solutions, and support evaluation of third-party vendors as directed.
  • Complete work assignments and support business-specific projects by applying subject-area expertise, supporting work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines, ensuring the team follows procedures and policies, coordinating and assigning resources to meet priorities and deadlines, collaborating cross-functionally on business decisions, solving complex problems, escalating high-priority issues or risks, and identifying improvement opportunities.
  • Provide information, resources, advice, and expertise to coworkers and customers; build relationships with cross-functional stakeholders; influence others through technical explanations and examples; adapt to competing demands and new responsibilities; seek and address performance feedback; provide feedback to others and managers; create and execute development plans; support team collaboration; and adapt to change, difficulties, and feedback.
  • Develop requirements for complex process or system solutions within assigned business domains by interfacing with stakeholders and appropriate IT teams, and lead junior team members in the development process as appropriate.
  • Use multiple business-requirements-gathering methodologies to identify business, functional, and non-functional requirements across multiple business domains.
  • Develop and document business cases assessing the costs, benefits, return on investment, and total cost of ownership of proposed solutions.
  • Support the evolution of applications, systems, and processes toward a desired future state by maintaining an understanding of how current processes affect business operations across multiple domains.
  • Map current-state processes against future-state processes.
  • Identify the impact of requirements on upstream and downstream solution components.
  • Recommend to management and business stakeholders how to integrate requirements with current systems and business processes across regions or domains.
  • Identify and validate value gaps and opportunities for process enhancements or efficiencies.
  • Provide insight during solution-design sessions with IT teams to help translate requirements into workable business solutions.
  • Identify and recommend additional data or services needed to address key business issues related to process or solution design.
  • Participate in evaluating third-party vendors as directed.
  • Support continuous process improvement by participating in the development, implementation, and maintenance of standardized tools, templates, and processes across multiple business domains.
  • Recommend regional or national process improvements that align with sustainable best practices and the strategic and tactical goals of the business.

Desired Qualifications

  • Two years of experience in software or system testing across multiple IT environments.
  • Two years of software or application development experience.

About the Company

Kaiser Permanente

Integrated healthcare provider and payer platform

Kaiser Permanente runs an integrated healthcare platform that lets members manage and pay medical, premium, and pharmacy bills online. It serves Medicare Advantage, Individual and Family, and non-employer plans, offering options to pay as a guest or set up payment plans. The platform works by presenting a centralized online portal where users can view bills, choose how to pay, and handle multiple types of charges in one place. Revenue comes from premiums and medical services fees, while the service aims to reduce administrative work for both providers and patients and encourage on-time payments. What sets Kaiser Permanente apart is its combination of healthcare services with a single billing experience across multiple plan types, focusing on a user-friendly, centralized payment process rather than handling billing through separate systems. Its goal is to provide a straightforward, reliable way for members to manage and pay their bills, improving convenience and payment timeliness.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
Grant
Total funding
$7.5M
Headquarters
Oakland, CA
Founded
1945

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