Blue Shield Of California

Sr. Manager, IT Development

Blue Shield Of California$120K — $150K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required
  • 10+ years relevant experience with at least 4 years in a management role
  • Strong understanding of Agile delivery and backlog management
  • Ability to manage multiple complex workstreams and interact across all management levels
  • Experience in advanced management approaches including risk management and delegation
  • Excellent verbal/written communication, analytical, and presentation skills
  • Desired knowledge of AI/ML concepts and tools.

Responsibilities

  • Manage staffing and recruitment for the team
  • Implement departmental goals and objectives effectively
  • Oversee systems design, programming, and data processing operations
  • Build and support team talent through mentorship
  • Establish strategic direction for the project or business unit
  • Ensure transparency in delivery status and updates to stakeholders
  • Collaborate with vendors and internal teams for coordinated project delivery
  • Monitor KPIs and suggest adjustments as needed.

Benefits

  • Hybrid workplace model promoting in-person collaboration and flexibility
  • Two in-office days per week for most teams
  • Accommodations for employees with medical conditions
  • Support for personal and professional growth for all employees
  • Commitment to creating a supportive workplace culture.
Full Job Description
Job Description

Your Role

The Application Services team plays a critical role in enhancing customer and technical collaboration while delivering all application development through a Platform and Technology Product Operation Model. The Sr Manager will report to the Director, IT Product Management. In this role you ensure successful delivery of engineering outcomes across platform or technology product teams but coordinating technical scope, timelines, and team velocity.

Responsibilities

Your Work

In this role, you will:
  • Manage staffing, including recruiting and hiring new team members as needed, based on assessments of the talent of the existing team's talent and the labor needs
  • Be responsible for overall implementation of departmental goals and objectives
  • Manage control of activities such as systems design and analysis, applications and systems programming, database management, network systems, telecommunications, and data processing operations
  • Be responsible for building and growing talent; support your team through encouragement and by example
  • Implement strategic direction for the project, business unit or function as part of senior management team
  • Owns end-to-end delivery status, ensuring transparency, accountability, and timely updates across stakeholders
  • Collaborates closely with external vendors, as well as internal product and engineering leads to coordinate and manage delivery when third-party solutions are part of the implementation
  • Collaborate with Product and Engineering Leads to scope, prioritize, and sequence work
  • Remove blockers and ensure delivery stays aligned with roadmaps and business outcomes
  • Monitor KPIs and delivery metrics; recommend adjustments as needed


Qualifications

Your Knowledge and Experience
  • Requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  • Requires at least 10-year prior relevant experience, including 4 years of management experience
  • Requires strong understanding of Agile delivery models and backlog management
  • Requires ability to manage multiple complex workstreams and successfully interact with all levels of management
  • Requires understanding of advanced management approaches such as scheduling for internal & external resources, prioritizing across competing requests, budget management and oversight, coaching & mentoring direct reports, risk management, and delegation
  • Requires excellent verbal / written communication, collaboration, analytical and presentation skills
  • Desired experience with AI/ML concepts and tools
  • Desired expertise in best-practices process improvement or project management processes
  • Preferred healthcare experience in enrollment, billing & payment


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 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.

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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
Size
7,000 employees
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Founded
1981

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