Platform Engineer: Internal Dev Platform & DX

Wellmark, Inc.; Des Moines (IA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Wellmark, Inc. is seeking a Platform Engineer to lead the design and delivery of internal developer platforms and developer experience initiatives. You will drive platform improvements, collaborate with architects and product teams, and champion self-service capabilities across the organization.

The role emphasizes working within an agile environment, building integrations with cloud and source control, and guiding platform adoption to boost developer productivity and governance compliance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or direct and applicable work experience.
• 7+ years of experience including development, innovative solutions, infrastructure, architecture design and operations.
• 4+ years of experience in IT infrastructure, architecture design, operations.
• Informal leadership, coaching, mentoring, architecture design, stakeholder consulting, problem solving and strong communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical designs for highly integrated complex application platforms to optimize security, information leverage and reuse, integration, performance, and availability while adhering to architecture standards.
• Consult with Solution Architects and project teams to create and document design deliverables for application platforms and collaborate on solutions.
• May oversee planning, developing, and estimating of technical solutions and collaborate with other technical teams.
• Collaborate with Lead Architect, business systems analyst and stakeholders on process improvements.
• Consult with business stakeholders to ensure architectures align with business expectations.
• Oversee and provide technical guidance on supported solutions, including vendor evaluations and integrations.
• Support architecture governance standards and provide guidance on IT policies, security and infrastructure.
• Provide training and mentorship on technical design and solution implementation.
• Build strong business relationships to align designs with business needs.
• Develop and apply industry best practices and recommend emerging technologies.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Platform design

Technical leadership

Agile delivery

Dev platform experience

Automation

AWS integrations

APIs & SDKs

CI/CD integration

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

AWS

CI/CD tools

Observability tools

Job description

Wellmark, Inc. is seeking a Platform Engineer to lead the design and delivery of internal developer platforms and developer experience initiatives. You will drive platform improvements, collaborate with architects and product teams, and champion self-service capabilities across the organization.

The role emphasizes working within an agile environment, building integrations with cloud and source control, and guiding platform adoption to boost developer productivity and governance compliance.