Blue Shield of California · 6 hours ago
Application Developer, Sr. Principal
Oakland, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
12+ years expBlue Shield of California is seeking a highly skilled Application Services Engineer, Sr Principal, to provide deep technical leadership and drive delivery excellence across full stack platforms. The role involves solution design for a large IT Applications portfolio, architectural leadership, and mentoring engineers while aligning IT Applications roadmap with business goals.
Financial ServicesHealth InsuranceNon Profit
Responsibilities
Be responsible for solution designs for 60+ million IT Applications portfolio
Provide architectural and engineering leadership across multiple platform features or technical domains, ensuring alignment with strategic business goals
Lead the technical execution of platform delivery, resolving roadblocks and ensuring adherence to best practices and standards
Define and roll out standards and best practices for IT Application development
Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture directors and business directors to align IT Applications roadmap with EA and business roadmap
Research, design, test, and evaluate new technologies and vendor solutions
Scan industry trends and enable specific use case-based adaptation / evaluation
Autonomously lead multiple cross-functional feature teams throughout the entire life cycle of solution development, including deployment and post-deployment
Provide ongoing coaching and mentoring to technical leads and principal engineers while leading the establishment of communities of practice to facilitate collaboration and best practice sharing among key individual contributors
Partner with Talent Acquisition to interview and assess candidates, ensuring the hiring of full stack engineers with the right technical capabilities
Develop, prepare, and present complex analysis for Senior/Executive Management review
Influence, maintain and sustain ITs reputation for fiscal responsibility
Qualification
Required
Requires a college degree or equivalent experience
Requires a minimum of 12 years of prior relevant experience
At least 10 years of experience in Software design/development, cloud native architecture and implementations, mobile applications, application architecture, software as a service (SaaS), software integration, automated software testing, continuous integration/continuous delivery, working in DevSecOps strongly preferred
Viewed as the leading expert and/or resource within the field by peers within and outside the organization
Experience in developing productive relationships with business leaders across the organization to influence how applications can enable new sources of value
Strong communication skills with a proven ability to understand key technical concepts and communicate effectively with technical staff, business stakeholders and senior management to enhance understanding and drive decisions that lead to positive outcomes
Proven ability to collaborate, build relationships and influence individuals at all levels in a matrix-management environment (as well as external vendors and service providers) to ensure that segregation and overlapping roles are identified and coordinated
Strong organizational skills, the ability to perform under pressure and management of multiple priorities with competing demands for resources
Company
Blue Shield of California
Blue Shield of California is a health insurance service provider.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
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Gary Culp
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