Senior Engineering Leader, Platform & Cloud Delivery

Blue Shield of CA; Las Vegas (NV); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Shield of CA is seeking a Sr. Manager, Engineering to lead a team delivering complex services, integrations, and cloud-native applications.

You will ensure strategy, talent, standards, and execution discipline to deliver secure, scalable, and maintainable solutions. The role requires extensive technology leadership, stakeholder management, and governance across multiple domains, with focus on DevOps, CI/CD, and secure development in regulated healthcare environments.

Qualifications

• 4 years of additional 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.

Skills

Team leadership

Software engineering

Cloud architecture

DevOps

CI/CD

Observability

Secure development

Stakeholder management

Budget management

Vendor management

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

High School Diploma/GED

Job description

Blue Shield of CA is seeking a Sr. Manager, Engineering to lead a team delivering complex services, integrations, and cloud-native applications.

You will ensure strategy, talent, standards, and execution discipline to deliver secure, scalable, and maintainable solutions. The role requires extensive technology leadership, stakeholder management, and governance across multiple domains, with focus on DevOps, CI/CD, and secure development in regulated healthcare environments.