Senior Platform & Microservices Architect

Blue Shield of CA; Milwaukee (WI); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Shield of CA is seeking a Principal, Application Architecture to guide architecture direction for our payer, provider, pharma, and partner workflows. You will translate platform strategy into concrete design decisions, guardrails, and implementation standards for distributed systems and microservices across clouds.

You will stay close to code and system design to ensure credible, executable architecture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or 4 years of additional relevant experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture decisions for major platform capabilities and cross-domain initiatives.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud-native platforms

Microservices

API design

Data modeling

Mentoring

Technical leadership

OpenAPI

DDD

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

PostgreSQL

OpenAPI tooling

Job description

Blue Shield of CA is seeking a Principal, Application Architecture to guide architecture direction for our payer, provider, pharma, and partner workflows. You will translate platform strategy into concrete design decisions, guardrails, and implementation standards for distributed systems and microservices across clouds.

You will stay close to code and system design to ensure credible, executable architecture.