Senior Engineering Leader: Cloud & Platform Delivery

Blue Shield of CA; Springfield Meadows (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Blue Shield of California seeks a Sr. Manager, Engineering to lead multiple teams responsible for designing and delivering complex services, cloud-native applications, and enterprise tech capabilities.

You will align strategy, structure, and execution to deliver secure and scalable solutions while guiding modernization efforts. This role partners across Product, Architecture, Security, and senior leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or High School Diploma/GED with 4 years of additional relevant experience.
• 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.
• Experience modernizing enterprise platforms or applications, reducing technical debt, improving operational resilience, and maintaining secure, supportable technologies.
• Ability to manage multiple complex workstreams, prioritize across competing demands, and interact effectively with all levels of management.
• Experience with budget management, vendor management, contracts, investment planning, resource planning, and technology roadmaps preferred.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to translate technical concepts, tradeoffs, risks, and investment needs for senior and cross-functional audiences.
• Experience supporting large-scale technology delivery in complex, regulated, healthcare, cloud-native, or platform-based environments preferred.

Skills

Leadership

Cloud architecture

DevOps

CI/CD

Site Reliability Engineering

Observability

AI enablement

APIs

Technology lifecycle management

Education

Bachelor's degree

High School Diploma/GED with 4+ years experience

Tools

Cloud platforms

Job description

Blue Shield of California seeks a Sr. Manager, Engineering to lead multiple teams responsible for designing and delivering complex services, cloud-native applications, and enterprise tech capabilities.

You will align strategy, structure, and execution to deliver secure and scalable solutions while guiding modernization efforts. This role partners across Product, Architecture, Security, and senior leadership.