Engineering Delivery Lead (Cloud-Native & Secure Systems)

Blue Shield of CA; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Stellarus is seeking a Manager, Engineering to lead and grow a team delivering complex services, integrations, and cloud-native applications. You will ensure the team has strategy, structure, and execution discipline to deliver secure, scalable, and maintainable solutions.

The role requires strong people leadership, deep technical background, and the ability to guide major decisions while partnering with product, security, and architecture teams to advance Stellarus' technology strategy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience with 4+ years in relevant fields.
• 7+ years in software engineering, full stack, platform engineering, or related tech.
• 2+ years in management or people leadership roles.
• Strong understanding of Agile delivery, backlog, risk, and prioritization.
• Technical fluency in cloud-native development, APIs, CI/CD, and secure coding.
• Familiarity with front-end frameworks, backend services, databases, RESTful integrations, cloud platforms, containers, IaC.
• Ability to collaborate with Product, Design, QA, Security, Platform, and business teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; experience in regulated/healthcare/enterprise environments preferred.

Responsibilities

• Oversee a team delivering complex services, integrations, and cloud-native apps.
• Ensure strategy, structure, talent, standards, and execution discipline.
• Guide major decisions, resolve risks, and support modernization.
• Collaborate across Product, Architecture, Security, Platform, Infrastructure, and leadership.

Skills

People leadership

Execution leadership

Agile delivery

Backlog management

Risk management

Strategy alignment

Cross-functional collaboration

Technical depth in cloud-native

RESTful integrations

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

API design

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

4 years relevant experience in lieu of degree

Tools

CI/CD

IaC

APIs

AI-assisted coding tools

Job description

Stellarus is seeking a Manager, Engineering to lead and grow a team delivering complex services, integrations, and cloud-native applications. You will ensure the team has strategy, structure, and execution discipline to deliver secure, scalable, and maintainable solutions.

The role requires strong people leadership, deep technical background, and the ability to guide major decisions while partnering with product, security, and architecture teams to advance Stellarus' technology strategy.