Sr. Manager, Engineering

Blue Shield of CA; Long Beach (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Shield of CA seeks a Sr. Manager, Engineering in California to lead a team responsible for designing and delivering complex services, integrations, and cloud-native applications.

You will ensure strategy, structure, talent, standards, and execution discipline drive secure, scalable, reliable, and maintainable solutions. Responsibilities include partnering across Product, Architecture, Security, Platform, Infrastructure, and senior leadership to align priorities, remove obstacles, and

Qualifications

• We are seeking a seasoned leader with 8+ years of technology experience and 4+ years of people management.
• Proven ability to guide multiple teams and delivery across platforms, including cloud-native environments.
• Strong communication to translate technical tradeoffs and investments for executives.

Responsibilities

• Lead teams responsible for designing and delivering complex services and cloud-native applications.
• Partner with Product, Architecture, Security, Platform, Infrastructure and senior leadership to align priorities.
• Foster learning, set standards, and ensure reliability, security and maintainability of solutions.

Skills

People management

Strategic leadership

Cloud architecture

DevOps

CI/CD

Observability

Security

Budget management

Vendor management

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Your Role

The Sr. Manager, Engineering oversees a team responsible for designing and delivering complex services, integrations, cloud-native applications, and enterprise technology capabilities. This leader ensures teams have the strategy, structure, talent, standards, and execution discipline needed to deliver secure, scalable, reliable, and maintainable solutions.

Sr. Managers are expected to be strong people and execution leaders with enough technical depth to guide major decisions, resolve complex risks, improve engineering practices, and support modernization efforts. This role partners across Product, Architecture, Security, Platform, Infrastructure, business, vendor, and senior leadership teams to align priorities, remove obstacles, and drive outcomes that support Stellarus' mission and evolving technology strategy.

Our leadership model is about developing great leaders at all levels and creating opportunities for our people to grow - personally, professionally, and financially. We are looking for leaders that are energized by creative and critical thinking, building and sustaining high-performing teams, getting results the right way, and fostering continuous learning.

Your Knowledge and Experience

• Bachelor's degree or High School Diploma/GED and 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.

Hybrid

This role requires employees to be in-office based on our hybrid workplace model, balancing purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility. For most teams, this means coming into the office two days each week.

Employees living more than 50 miles from an office location will work with their manager to determine in-office time based on business need.