Platform Engineer

Wellmark, Inc.; Iowa; On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield is seeking a Platform Engineer to lead the technical designs for highly integrated application platforms, promoting security, reuse, and performance. You will collaborate with Architects, Product Managers, and engineers to shape solutions and guide modernization initiatives across multiple products and systems.

In this role, you will coach teams, influence architectural decisions, and advance engineering practices while leveraging emerging technologies including

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or direct and applicable work experience.
• Minimum 7 years of experience including development and IT infrastructure, architecture design, operations.
• Proven ability to adapt to major changes in work tasks or environment.
• Experience coaching/mentoring others to strengthen knowledge and skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical designs for highly integrated complex application platforms to optimize security, information leverage and reuse, integration, performance, and availability and ensure solutions adhere to architecture standards.
• Consult with Solution Architects and project teams in the creation and documentation of design deliverables for application platforms.
• May oversee and lead planning, developing and estimating of technical solutions; collaborate with other technical teams.
• Collaborate with Lead Architect for assigned domain, business systems analyst and other stakeholders to provide insight/direction regarding process improvements.
• Consults with business stakeholders regarding technical planning to ensure architectures align with business expectations.
• Oversee, review and provide technical guidance on design efforts; evaluate vendors and integrate new solutions.
• Support architecture governance standards and provide design specifications for approvals; advise on IT policies, security and infrastructure.
• Provide training and mentorship on technical design and solution implementation; review and QA.
• Build strong relationships with the business to ensure designs meet needs and deliverables.
• Develop and apply best practice technology, design and methods; research new technologies to add value.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Informal leadership

Mentoring others

Problem solving

Communication skills

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or direct work experience

Tools

Angular 2+

NodeJS

TypeScript

C#

.NET

Java

SQL

Job description

Why Wellmark?

We are a mutual insurance company owned by our policy holders across Iowa and South Dakota, and we’ve built our reputation on over 80 years’ worth of trust. We are not motivated by profits. We are motivated by the well-being of our friends, family, and neighbors-our members. If you're passionate about joining an organization working hard to put its members first, to provide best-in-class service, and one that is committed to sustainability and innovation, consider applying today!

Why Wellmark Technology?

Wellmark is building innovative, modern solutions using cutting edge technology. We are driving organizational transformation and business strategy by empowering our technology team to innovate new and elegant solutions to enhance the customer experience. Together, we are leaning into the future, owning the outcome, and driving organizational change to transform how we work.

Learn more about our unique benefit offerings here.

Want to know more? You can learn about life at Wellmark here.

As a Platform Engineer supporting the Health Services teams, you will play a key leadership role in advancing Wellmark's engineering capabilities and delivering scalable, resilient, and modern technology solutions. Working across product teams, architecture, and business functions, you will help establish technical direction, promote engineering best practices, and drive consistency in how solutions are designed, delivered, secured, and operated. You will serve as a trusted technical leader who influences architectural decisions, accelerates modernization efforts, and helps teams effectively leverage emerging technologies, including AI, automation, and digital workplace capabilities.

This role operates beyond the boundaries of a single team, partnering with Product Managers, Architects, Engineers, and business stakeholders to solve complex problems and improve delivery outcomes across multiple products and systems. You will identify and remove technical friction, champion engineering excellence, and help scale effective practices across the organization. Through coaching, mentorship, and hands‑on engagement, you will enable product teams to make sound technical decisions, strengthen engineering discipline, and continuously improve quality, security, maintainability, and delivery velocity. While supporting responsible adoption of automation, AI, and low‑code capabilities, your primary focus will be creating leverage across teams by advancing technical leadership, reducing complexity, and driving sustainable engineering practices throughout the enterprise.

Required:

• Bachelor's Degree or direct and applicable work experience
• Minimum 7 years of experience to include any combination of the following:
• Development Experience: (Ex: Angular 2 (or newer), NodeJS (or newer), TypeScript, C#, .NET, Java, SQL)
• Providing innovative solutions to complex issues
• Minimum 4 years of experience in IT infrastructure, architecture design, operations
• Proven ability to adapt when experiencing major changes in work tasks or work environment.
• Informal leadership experience typically gained through leading projects.
• Demonstrated experience coaching/mentoring others by providing guidance and feedback to help an employee or groups of employees strengthen their knowledge and skills to accomplish a task or solve a problem
• Proven experience with designing technical architecture and keeping abreast of existing and emerging technologies.
• Experiencing consulting with stakeholders to understand needs with the intention of providing advice and counsel. Also interacting appropriately with others to guide individuals or groups to accomplish work, reach consensus or take action.
• Demonstrated experience in problem solving/troubleshooting skills (conceptual, technical, IT) - Breaks down problems and identifies all of their facets, including hidden or tricky aspects, to find root-cause of problems. Generates a range of solutions and courses of action with benefits, costs, and risks associated with each. Probes appropriate sources for answers, and thinks 'outside the box' to find options. Tests proposed solutions against the reality of likely effects before going forward.
• Demonstrated communication skills: verbal and written - Articulate; Communicates information/concepts clearly and concisely to individuals or groups; delivers presentations suited to the characteristics and needs of the stakeholders/audience. Clearly and concisely conveys written information orally or in writing to individuals or groups to ensure that they understand the information and the message. Listen and respond appropriately to others.

Preferred:

• Bachelor’s degree
• Experience working within an Agile team environment
• Leadership typically gained through a combination of delivery work and informal leadership that demonstrates competencies
• Experience partnering with global staffing vendors to deliver implementations and product value

Job Responsibilities

• a. Lead the technical designs for highly integrated complex applicationplatforms to optimize security, information leverage and re-use, integration, performance, and availability and ensure solutions developed adhere and aligns to the architecture standards. Fulfill service level agreements and ensure solutions remains current with industry best practices, technologies and with Wellmark's standards.
• b. Consult with Solution Architects and project teams in the creation & documentation of design deliverables for applicationplatforms. Collaborate with Solution and Lead Architects to design and implement effective technology solutions, while using innovative business and technology processes to identify and implement improvement initiatives, eliminate redundancies and maximizes re-use of applications.
• c. May oversee and lead planning, developing and estimating of technical solutions. When appropriate, collaborate and work with other technical teams to better provide subject matter expertise and insights.
• d. Collaborate with Lead Architect for assigned domain, business systems analyst and other stakeholders to provide insight/ direction regarding process improvements.
• e. Consults with business stakeholders regarding subject matter knowledge related to technical planning in order to ensure architectures are developed in alignment with business expectations.
• f. Oversee, review and provide technical guidance on the design efforts of Wellmark's supported solutions; including but not limited to the evaluation of vendors during the selection process, integrating with new vendors, design, implementation and administration.
• g. Will adhere and are held accountable for the support and influence of Wellmark's architecture governance standards and technical standards. Provide design specifications to governing boards for proper approvals. Provides guidance for regarding IT policies, security and infrastructure.
• h. Will provide training and mentorship of others regarding technical design and solution implementation; including review and quality assurance.
• i. Build strong relationships and business acumen with the business to ensure technical designs are aligned with business needs. Provide exceptional customer service and solutions.
• j. Develops and applies industry best practice technology, design and methodology approaches to designplatformspecific technical designs. Researches and recommends new emerging technologies, techniques and tools that will add value to the organization.
• k. Other duties as assigned.

An Equal Opportunity Employer

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