Platform Engineer - Product & Quoting Ecosystem

Wellmark, Inc.; Des Moines (IA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Wellmark is seeking a Platform Engineer in Des Moines to drive product development and quoting lifecycle improvements. You will lead cross-functional teams, design integrated solutions, and partner with product managers, architects, and security to ensure scalable, secure configurations.

You will translate architecture into implementable designs, guide infra planning, and mentor teammates while aligning with Wellmark standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• 7+ years of experience across development, infra, architecture, and operations.
• 4+ years of IT infrastructure, architecture design, operations.
• Lead technical designs for highly integrated complex platforms aligning to architecture standards.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management.

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 developed adhere and align to the architecture standards.
• Consult with Architects and project teams in the creation and documentation of design deliverables for application platforms and collaborate on effective technology solutions.
• May oversee and lead planning, developing and estimating of technical solutions and collaborate with other technical teams.
• Collaborate with Architects, business systems analyst, and stakeholders regarding process improvements.
• Consult with business stakeholders regarding technical planning to ensure architectures align with business expectations.
• Oversee, review and provide technical guidance on supported solutions, including vendor evaluations and integrations.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Agile methodologies

Communication

Mentoring

Architecture design

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

AWS

Amazon Aurora/SQL

MongoDB

Job description

Wellmark is seeking a Platform Engineer in Des Moines to drive product development and quoting lifecycle improvements. You will lead cross-functional teams, design integrated solutions, and partner with product managers, architects, and security to ensure scalable, secure configurations.

You will translate architecture into implementable designs, guide infra planning, and mentor teammates while aligning with Wellmark standards.