Senior Engineering Manager: Platform & Cloud Leadership

Blue Shield of CA; Virginia Beach (VA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Shield of CA seeks a Sr. Manager, Engineering to lead a multi-disciplinary team responsible for designing and delivering complex services, integrations, and cloud-native applications across enterprise technology platforms.

You will enable secure, scalable, and maintainable solutions through strong strategy, talent, and execution discipline. This role requires extensive experience in software and platform engineering, modern cloud architectures, DevOps, SRE, and a proven track record in

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.
• 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 teams have strategy, structure, talent, standards, and execution discipline to deliver secure, scalable, reliable, and maintainable solutions.
• Shape engineering practices, improve consistency across teams, and drive adoption of CI/CD, observability, and secure development.

Skills

Team leadership

Strategic planning

Cloud architecture

DevOps

CI/CD

Observability

Secure development

Stakeholder management

Budget & vendor management

Communication

Healthcare/regulatory familiarity

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

High School Diploma/GED

Job description

Blue Shield of CA seeks a Sr. Manager, Engineering to lead a multi-disciplinary team responsible for designing and delivering complex services, integrations, and cloud-native applications across enterprise technology platforms.

You will enable secure, scalable, and maintainable solutions through strong strategy, talent, and execution discipline. This role requires extensive experience in software and platform engineering, modern cloud architectures, DevOps, SRE, and a proven track record in