Sr. Manager, Technical Engineering
Blue Shield of CaliforniaAbout the role
Your Role
The Platform Engineering team is a technology innovation team focused on our Internal Development platform and related solutions. The Senior Manager, Platform Engineering will report to the Senior Director, Developer Experience. In this role you will Mentor and lead a consolidated effort to modernize our classic technical stack into a streamlined, highly self-service platform. You will also drive innovation with a well-considered “build vs buy” approach. Apply AI centric solutions as a force multiplier embedded throughout your teams. 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 Work
In this role, you will:
- Provide day-to-day oversight of a team of cloud engineers and managers
- Lead highly collaborative engagements cross functionally with engineers and leaders across the organization
- Invoke an “Everything As Code” philosophy for all strategic initiatives
- Provide code-first mentorship within your team and the broader organization
- Collaborate with peer organizations to design consensus-based engineering solutions
- Focus on platform stability and cost responsibility within your team
- Drive operational efficiency and technical excellence by leveraging well known success practices and industry standards.
- Champion AI augmented development patterns within your team.
Your Knowledge and Experience
- Requires a bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, management information system, or equivalent experience
- Requires at least 10 years of relevant experience
- Requires at least a minimum 4 years of experience managing divers functional technical teams
- Full stack competency in at least one OOP programming language (JAVA, Python, .NET, etc)
- Prefers at least 5 years of experience working within one of the three primary Cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Prefers at least 5 years of experience working with container technologies and supporting tools (i.e. Docker, Podman, Kubernetes)
- Prefers at least 5 years of experience with IAC and Configuration Management tools
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