Senior Engineering Leader: Cloud-Native Platforms & Delivery

Blue Shield of CA; Hartford (CT); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Stellarus seeks a Sr. Manager, Engineering to lead teams delivering complex services, cloud-native apps, and enterprise platforms with a focus on secure, scalable, and reliable solutions.

You will guide strategic decisions, modernize practices, and work with product, security, and infrastructure leaders to align priorities and drive critical outcomes. This role emphasizes leadership development and measurable delivery impact.

Qualifications

• 8 years of progressive technology experience in software engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, enterprise engineering, engineering management, technical delivery, or related disciplines.
• 4 years of prior people management experience with direct responsibility for supervising, coaching, and evaluating technical teams.
• Experience leading multiple teams, platforms, products, or technology domains with accountability for delivery, people leadership, operational outcomes, and stakeholder management.
• Strong knowledge of modern software engineering, platform engineering, cloud architecture, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, automation, AI enablement, APIs, secure development, and technology lifecycle management.
• Demonstrated ability to shape engineering practices, improve consistency across teams, and drive adoption of CI/CD, observability, secure development, operational reliability, and scalable architecture practices.

Responsibilities

• Oversee a team responsible for designing and delivering complex services, integrations, cloud-native applications, and enterprise technology capabilities.
• Guide major decisions, resolve complex risks, improve engineering practices, and support modernization efforts.
• Partner across Product, Architecture, Security, Platform, Infrastructure, business, vendor, and senior leadership to align priorities and drive outcomes.
• Develop leaders at all levels and foster continuous learning and growth within the organization.

Skills

People management

CI/CD

Cloud architecture

DevOps

Observability

Secure development

Platform engineering

Technical delivery

Stakeholder management

Budget & vendor management

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Stellarus seeks a Sr. Manager, Engineering to lead teams delivering complex services, cloud-native apps, and enterprise platforms with a focus on secure, scalable, and reliable solutions.

You will guide strategic decisions, modernize practices, and work with product, security, and infrastructure leaders to align priorities and drive critical outcomes. This role emphasizes leadership development and measurable delivery impact.