Senior Engineering Leader: Cloud, Platform & Delivery

Blue Shield of CA; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Stellarus is seeking a Sr. Manager, Engineering to lead a team responsible for designing and delivering complex services, integrations, cloud-native applications, and enterprise technology capabilities.

This leader ensures strategy, structure, talent, standards, and execution discipline to deliver secure, scalable, reliable, and maintainable solutions. This role partners across Product, Architecture, Security, Platform, Infrastructure, business, vendor, and senior leadership teams to align

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent with 4 years of additional relevant experience.
• 8 years of progressive technology experience in software/platform/enterprise engineering, engineering management, 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.

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, and support modernization efforts.
• Collaborate across Product, Architecture, Security, Platform, Infrastructure, business, vendor, and leadership to align priorities and drive outcomes.
• Lead with a focus on building high-performing teams, execution discipline, and continuous learning.

Skills

Team leadership

Cloud architecture

CI/CD

Observability

Secure development

Stakeholder management

Technical decision making

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Stellarus is seeking a Sr. Manager, Engineering to lead a team responsible for designing and delivering complex services, integrations, cloud-native applications, and enterprise technology capabilities.

This leader ensures strategy, structure, talent, standards, and execution discipline to deliver secure, scalable, reliable, and maintainable solutions. This role partners across Product, Architecture, Security, Platform, Infrastructure, business, vendor, and senior leadership teams to align