Blue Shield Of California

Sr. Manager, Engineering

Blue Shield Of California$135K — $160K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or High School Diploma/GED and 4 years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
  • 8 years of progressive technology experience in software engineering or related disciplines.
  • 4 years of people management experience with responsibility for technical teams.
  • Proven experience leading multiple teams or technology domains with accountability for outcomes.
  • Strong knowledge in modern software engineering, DevOps, and cloud architecture.
  • Demonstrated ability to improve engineering practices and drive CI/CD adoption.
  • Experience in modernizing enterprise platforms and improving operational resilience.

Responsibilities

  • Lead an engineering team delivering secure, scalable technology solutions.
  • Define and execute engineering roadmaps and operational plans aligned to business goals.
  • Establish governance, KPIs, dashboards, and reporting for delivery health and business value.
  • Build and sustain high-performing engineering organizations through effective talent management.
  • Guide technical talent in resolving complex issues in delivery and architecture.
  • Partner across various teams to align priorities and drive cross-functional execution.
  • Drive modernization and technical debt reduction, focusing on innovation and productivity.

Benefits

  • Hybrid workplace model providing flexibility and in-person collaboration.
  • Opportunity to work closely with senior leadership and cross-functional teams.
  • Focus on continuous learning and improvement within a supportive culture.
  • Engagement in high-impact projects that contribute to the company's technological strategy.
Full Job Description
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.

Responsibilities

Your Work

In this role, you will:
  • Lead an engineering team responsible for delivering secure, scalable, reliable technology solutions.
  • Define and execute engineering roadmaps, delivery priorities, operational plans, and team objectives aligned to business, product, platform, and enterprise goals.
  • Establish and improve operating models, governance, engineering standards, KPIs, dashboards, SLAs/SLOs, and executive-level reporting to show delivery health, platform maturity, operational performance, and business value.
  • Build, grow, and sustain high-performing engineering organizations through hiring, workforce planning, coaching, performance management, leadership development, and succession planning.
  • Guide senior technical talent in resolving complex delivery, architecture, reliability, security, scalability, integration, and operational issues.
  • Partner with Product, Architecture, Security, Platform, Infrastructure, business, and vendor stakeholders to align priorities, manage dependencies, and drive cross-functional execution.
  • Drive modernization, technical debt reduction, reliability improvements, automation, AI adoption, developer productivity, and practical transformation across assigned teams or technology areas.
  • Ensure engineering teams apply consistent practices for secure development, CI/CD, cloud-native architecture, observability, operational reliability, testability, maintainability, and scalable system design.
  • Own delivery status and organizational performance across multiple workstreams, ensuring transparency, accountability, risk visibility, and timely communication to stakeholders.
  • Manage budgets, resource plans, vendor relationships, licensing, contracts, investment plans, and technology roadmaps where applicable.
  • Influence strategic decisions and advise leaders on delivery risks, technical tradeoffs, operational needs, resource constraints, and opportunities to improve scalability, quality, and business impact.
  • Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, engineering excellence, pragmatic decision-making, innovation, continuous learning, and measurable improvement.


Qualifications

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.

Physical Requirements:

Office Environment - roles involving part to full time schedule in Office Environment. Based in our physical offices and work from home office/deskwork - Activity level: Sedentary, frequency most of work day.

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About Blue Shield Of California

Blue Shield of California is a not-for-profit health plan provider that has been providing Californians with access to high-quality healthcare for over 80 years. The company offers a range of health insurance products and services to individuals, families, and employers. Blue Shield of California is committed to improving the health and wellbeing of its members and the communities it serves. The company is also committed to sustainability and has implemented a number of initiatives to reduce its environmental impact.
Learn more about Blue Shield Of California
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7,000 employees
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Founded
1981

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