Senior Engineering Leader - Cloud, Platform & Reliability

Blue Shield of CA; Hartford (CT); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Shield of CA seeks a Sr. Manager, Engineering to lead multiple teams delivering complex services, integrations, and cloud-native architectures.

You will ensure strategy, structure, talent, and standards enable secure, scalable, and maintainable solutions across enterprise platforms. The role emphasizes strong communication, governance, and collaboration with senior stakeholders to drive delivery outcomes in a regulated, healthcare-focused environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or High School Diploma/GED plus 4 years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Oversee a team responsible for designing and delivering complex services, integrations, cloud-native applications, and enterprise technology capabilities.
• Ensure strategy, structure, talent, standards, and execution discipline to deliver secure, scalable, reliable, and maintainable solutions.

Skills

Software engineering

Platform engineering

Cloud architecture

DevOps

Site Reliability Engineering

Automation

APIs

Secure development

CI/CD

Observability

Operational reliability

Scalable architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree or High School Diploma/GED with 4 years of experience

Job description

Blue Shield of CA seeks a Sr. Manager, Engineering to lead multiple teams delivering complex services, integrations, and cloud-native architectures.

You will ensure strategy, structure, talent, and standards enable secure, scalable, and maintainable solutions across enterprise platforms. The role emphasizes strong communication, governance, and collaboration with senior stakeholders to drive delivery outcomes in a regulated, healthcare-focused environment.