Manager, Engineering

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As an Engineering Manager at Premera, you will lead a team of engineers responsible for architecting, delivering, and supporting applications and technologies that support our business and provide value to our customers. As a leader, you will be responsible for motivating and inspiring your teams to build creative and innovative solutions to healthcare problems and opportunities.

This is a hybrid role, with some onsite days required. You must live within driving distance of our Mountlake Terrace campus, located about 15 miles north of Seattle, Washington.

What you’ll do: 

• Hire, mentor, coach, and lead a team of engineers to deliver on short and long-term organizational goals.

• Guide and support the engineering team throughout the entire product/service life cycle from ideation, design, build, test, and deploy, as well as the on-going run, grow, and transform activities.

• Identify and execute on opportunities to mature SecDevOps engineering practices through automation, continuous code deployment, and integrated security.

• Drive continuous improvement by championing modern engineering practices such as configuration/infrastructure as code and automated testing with a goal to provide consistency, quality, and reduced time to market.

• Drive, execute, and lead your teams with a relentless 'Focus on Customer' - always looking for ways to improve the customer experience.

• Lead with an ownership and data driven mentality with a focus on monitoring and instrumenting all aspects of application/services and infrastructure.

• Communicate effectively with teams across the enterprise by fostering an open and collaborative environment at all levels.

• Continually reassess and challenge the status quo and champion innovative solutions. Keep abreast of technical best practices and standards while leading change and adoption of new processes and technologies.

• Identify, plan, and execute technical priorities relevant to the life cycle management of the team’s products/services.

• Resolve impediments and align priorities with the team across the enterprise as well as with external groups and partners.

• Act as a technical and business leader sharing knowledge and expertise on business case development, Requests for Proposal (RFP), and vendor negotiation activities.

• Accountable for ensuring that the team adheres to Premera's System/Software/Secure Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Agile Practices, and Engineering Standards.

• Manage multiple deliverables and partner across the enterprise to influence direction, decisions, and priorities as needed. Identify risks to successful execution across all departments. Ensure timely resolution of issues within area of responsibility.

What you’ll bring:

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field, or (4) years of experience in information technology.

• (6) years of experience in information technology, application development, system administration/engineering, or systems development, which includes previous program or team leadership experience.

Preferred Qualifications (S&E)

• Experience with C#/.NE