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Blue Shield of California · 1 day ago

Platform Engineer, Sr. Principal

California, United States

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

12+ years exp

Blue Shield of California is a healthcare organization that aims to improve the quality and affordability of healthcare services. The Sr. Principal Platform Engineer will be responsible for developing enterprise architecture blueprints and guiding the organization’s migration to the Cloud, while fostering high-performing teams and innovative solutions.

Financial ServicesHealth InsuranceNon Profit

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Responsible for the development and maintenance of enterprise architecture blueprints that articulate our business strategy, future state business and technology architecture, and multiyear execution roadmap, with a focus on AI and Agentic AI best practices

Applies expert level architecture knowledge and skills across multiple domain areas (business, information, application and technology) in driving the advancement of our corporate strategy

Collaborates with and leads other architects to create and document standards and patterns that can be leveraged for future re-use, and actively seek opportunities to leverage industry solutions for new business offerings and services

Develops and maintains reference architecture which includes the reference model, guiding principles, standards, patterns and usage guidelines

Create contextual and conceptual models that help document and simplify potentially complex topics

Serve as a trusted advisor to leaders and business stakeholders in the development of the strategic portfolio or business unit plans

Provides comprehensive analytical thinking to ensure transformation costs, impact and value are properly understood, estimated and controlled across people, process and technology

Collaborate with customers, vendors, industry consultants and senior company leadership to continuously learn and identify opportunities to advance on our business strategy

Defines the technology roadmap and architecture to accelerate cloud initiatives, using AI and Agentic AI tools and capabilities

Understanding of business process design methods and tools a plus

Strong situational analysis and decision-making abilities

Ability to tailor communications to the C-suite level

Qualification

Cloud services expertiseArchitecture practice experienceAIAgentic AI knowledgeCloud technology standardsProgramming proficiencyKubernetes experienceSituational analysisInterpersonal skillsDecision-making abilitiesCommunication skills

Required

Requires a college degree or equivalent experience

Requires a minimum of 12 years relevant business and IT experience with wide array of cloud services across Azure, GCP, or AWS

5+ years of architecture practice experience

Expert architect who champions and continuously drives the advancement of the architecture operating model, governance, processes, policies, standards, and framework for the Enterprise Architecture capability

Creates, refines and puts into practice repeatable architecture frameworks and processes to enable complex cross-functional initiatives related to major business initiatives

Provides vision and strategic direction for one or more architecture domains (business, information, application and technology)

Develop and maintain strategies and solutions for the enterprise in collaboration with executive leadership across the business and IT

Possesses the excellent interpersonal skills necessary to articulate the value of a strong enterprise architecture function to critical business stakeholders

Advanced knowledge and experience with cloud technologies, defining technology standards and implementation roadmaps for one or more of the following: Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services

In-depth knowledge of implementing and leveraging AI, Agentic AI and LLM models

Demonstrated proficiency in understanding cloud life cycle methodologies

Proficiency in at least one relevant programming language (Python, C#, Java, etc.)

In depth knowledge of multiple cloud hosting providers, including Microsoft Azure and AWS

Kubernetes experience strongly desired

Company

Blue Shield of California

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Blue Shield of California is a health insurance service provider.

Founded in 1939

San Francisco, California, USA

5001-10000 employees

https://www.blueshieldca.com

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