Director, Enterprise Delivery

Blue Shield of CA; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Stellarus is seeking a Chief Information Officer to oversee technology strategy, engineering, and operations in partnership with Blue Shield of California. You will lead multiple engineering teams, drive platform reliability, and partner with Product, Architecture, Security, and business leaders to deliver secure, scalable technology solutions.

The role focuses on operational excellence, modernization, and measurable business outcomes, with a hybrid in-office work model and emphasis on

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or High School Diploma/GED + 4 years relevant experience
• 10 years of software engineering, technology ops or related roles
• 6 years of people management with direct reports
• Experience leading multiple engineering teams with delivery accountability
• Ownership of production systems end-to-end and improving reliability
• Stabilizing and modernizing legacy systems in production environments
• Strong understanding of modern engineering practices and platform reliability
• Ability to lead cross-functional execution with Product, Architecture, Security, Platform, and business
• Experience partnering with stakeholders to drive strategic execution
• Experience with cloud-native, platform-based environments at scale (preferred)
• Experience driving CI/CD, observability and secure development practices (preferred)
• Experience establishing engineering standards across teams (preferred)
• Experience in large-scale tech delivery in regulated environments (preferred)
• Experience leading through organizational change and growth (preferred)
• Portfolio planning and resource prioritization experience (preferred)
• Master’s degree in CS, Engineering, IS or related field preferred

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering delivery, platform operations, and technology services to meet business objectives
• Guide architecture, delivery execution, production stability, and issue resolution
• Partner with Product, Architecture, Security, and business leaders to improve execution and reliability
• Drive modernization and operational maturity across engineering organizations
• Ensure technology solutions are secure, scalable, and high performing

Skills

Leadership

Cloud-native architectures

CI/CD

Observability

Secure development

Reliability engineering

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication skills

Production systems ownership

Regulated environments

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree preferred

Job description

Your Role

The Stellarus Chief Information Officer is responsible for overseeing corporate technology strategy, engineering, and operations that support the partnership with Blue Shield of California. The organization drives operational excellence, strategic alignment, and the successful delivery of technology solutions that enable business growth, improve operational efficiency, and ensure secure, scalable, reliable, and high-performing technology services. The Director, Enterprise Delivery will report to the Sr. Director, Technology, Infrastructure, and Stabilization.

In this role, you will provide senior leadership across engineering delivery, platform operations, and technology services aligned to the organization’s highest-priority business objectives. You will lead engineering managers and technology leaders responsible for solution delivery, production operations, platform reliability, service performance, and continuous improvement, ensuring technology solutions are delivered with speed, quality, security, and operational excellence.

This role requires strong engineering and operational leadership, with the ability to guide architecture, delivery execution, production stability, and complex issue resolution while driving modernization and operational maturity. You will partner closely with Product, Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, and business leaders to improve execution, strengthen reliability, manage risk, and deliver measurable business outcomes through technology.

Our leadership model is about developing great leaders at all levels and creating opportunities for our people to grow – personally, professionally, and financially. We are looking for leaders that are energized by creative and critical thinking, building and sustaining high-performing teams, getting results the right way, and fostering continuous learning.

Your Knowledge and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree or High School Diploma/GED and 4 years of additional relevant experience in lieu of a degree
• 10 years of prior relevant experience in software engineering, technology operations and management, or related technology roles
• 6 years of prior people management experience with direct responsibility for supervising, coaching, and evaluating direct reports, including experience leading engineering managers and/or senior engineers
• Demonstrated experience leading multiple engineering teams, domains, or portfolios with accountability for delivery, people leadership, and operational outcomes
• Proven track record of owning production systems end-to-end, resolving technical debt, and improving reliability, resilience, and operational performance across complex, large-scale platforms
• Demonstrated experience stabilizing, modernizing, and improving legacy systems in high-pressure, production-critical environments
• Strong understanding of modern engineering practices, including cloud-native architectures, system design, CI/CD, observability, secure development, and operational reliability
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional execution and partner effectively with Product, Architecture, Security, Platform, and business stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to balance strategic leadership with execution focus, including delivery, team development, engineering quality, scalability, and risk management
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate technical concepts, tradeoffs, and risks for senior and cross-functional audiences
• Experience leading engineering organizations in cloud-native, platform-based environments at scale preferred
• Experience driving adoption of CI/CD, observability, secure development, and reliability practices across multiple teams or domains preferred
• Experience establishing engineering standards and improving consistency of engineering practices across teams, domains, or portfolios preferred
• Experience supporting large-scale technology delivery in complex or regulated environments preferred
• Experience leading through organizational change, growth, or transformation within an engineering organization preferred
• Experience with portfolio planning, investment prioritization, and resource tradeoff decisions across competing engineering demands preferred
• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field preferred

Hybrid

This role requires employees to be in-office based on our hybrid workplace model, balancing purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility. For most teams, this means coming into the office two days each week.

Employees living more than 50 miles from an office location will work with their manager to determine in-office time based on business need.