Sr. Manager, Engineering

Blue Shield of CA; Oakland (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Shield of CA seeks a Sr. Manager, Engineering to lead a set of teams delivering complex services, cloud-native applications, and enterprise capabilities.

You will ensure strategy, structure, and execution discipline to deliver secure, scalable, reliable solutions. The role requires strong leadership with technical depth to guide major decisions, reduce risk, and modernize platforms while collaborating with Product, Architecture, Security, Platform, and senior leadership across the

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent with 4 years of relevant experience.
• 8 years of progressive technology experience in software/ platform/ infrastructure engineering, engineering management, or related disciplines.
• 4 years of prior people management experience with coaching and evaluating technical teams.
• Experience leading multiple teams, platforms, products, or technology domains with delivery accountability.
• Strong knowledge of modern software engineering, cloud architecture, DevOps, SRE, automation, APIs, secure development, and lifecycle management.
• Demonstrated ability to shape engineering practices and drive CI/CD, observability, secure development, and scalable architecture.
• Experience modernizing enterprise platforms or applications, reducing technical debt and improving resilience.
• Ability to manage multiple complex workstreams and communicate with all management levels.
• Experience with budget management, vendor management, contracts, and technology roadmaps preferred.
• Strong communication for senior and cross-functional audiences.
• Experience in regulated healthcare, cloud-native, or platform-based environments preferred.

Responsibilities

• Oversee design and delivery of complex services, integrations, and cloud-native applications.
• Guide major technical decisions, resolve risks, and support modernization efforts.
• Partner with Product, Architecture, Security, Platform, Infrastructure, and leadership teams.
• Develop leaders, build high-performing teams, and foster continuous learning.
• Drive outcomes that align with technology strategy and business goals.

Skills

Cloud architecture

DevOps

CI/CD

Observability

Secure development

Platform engineering

AI enablement

Technical leadership

Stakeholder management

Regulated healthcare

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

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.