Cloud Engineer, Sr. Principal

Your Role

The Developer and Employee Experience team is responsible for the creation of the standard and automation pipelines that enable our partnering IT teams to build, release, and manage their systems. We are setting the path for how we'll migrate to the Cloud and ensure that we are guiding the movement to a more modern DevOps operating model. The Sr. Principal Enterprise Cloud Engineer will report to the Vice President of Developer & Employee Experience. In this role, you will drive the creation and maintenance of enterprise technology capabilities and technology patterns to enable our teams to move to the Cloud. You will also define integrated roadmaps that guide our strategic investments to support our enterprise initiatives for Blue Shield of California. Our leadership model is about developing great leaders at all levels and creating opportunities for our people to grow - personally, professionally, and financially. We are looking for leaders that are energized by creative and critical thinking, building and sustaining high-performing teams, getting results the right way, and fostering continuous learning.

Your Work

In this role, you will:

1. Help create the sense of psychological safety, enabling teams to try and learn new areas of technology.
2. Solve technical problems of the highest scope and complexity for the entire organization.
3. Collaborate with and lead other architects and engineers to create and document standards and patterns that can be leveraged for future reuse, and actively seek opportunities to leverage industry solutions for new business offerings and services.
4. Drive innovation across engineering with a willingness to experiment and boldly confront problems of immense complexity and scope.
5. Exert significant influence over Blue Shield of California's long-term goals and execution.
6. Ensure that our standards for style, maintainability, and best practices are suitable for the unique problems of scale and diversity of use represented by Blue Shield of California.
7. Drive significant improvements for Blue Shield of California's use, ease of development, and technical efficiency through effective collaboration and prolific technical contributions.
8. Provide mentorship for engineers, with a particular focus on Staff+ engineers, to help them grow in their responsibilities.
9. Share expertise across the entire organization.
10. Ship extremely high-impact features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other members of the organization.
11. Serve as a trusted advisor to leaders and business stakeholders in the development of the strategic portfolio or business unit plans.
12. Provide comprehensive analytical thinking to ensure transformation costs, impact and value are properly understood, estimated, and controlled across people, process, and technology.
13. Collaborate with customers, vendors, industry consultants, and senior company leadership to continuously learn and identify opportunities to advance our business strategy.
14. Define the technology roadmap and architecture to accelerate cloud initiatives.
15. Understanding of business process design methods and tools is a plus.
16. Strong situational analysis and decision-making abilities.
17. Ability to tailor communications to the C-suite level.

Your Knowledge and Experience

1. Master's degree preferred. Minimum Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
2. 12+ years relevant business and hands-on IT experience using various technologies like Linux and/or Windows, firewalls, IPAM solutions, monitoring/logging tools using Azure monitor or Splunk.
3. 3+ years of experience working in the healthcare industry is desired.
4. 5+ years of architecture practice experience with one or more cloud technologies such as Azure, Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services.
5. Expert engineer who champions and continuously drives the advancement of the architecture operating model, governance, processes, policies, standards, and framework for the Developer and Employee Experience capability.
6. Creates, refines, and puts into practice repeatable architecture frameworks and processes to enable complex cross-functional initiatives related to major business initiatives.
7. Provides vision and strategic direction and application for one or more architecture domains (business, information, application, and technology).
8. Develop and maintain strategies and solutions for the enterprise in collaboration with executive leadership across the business and IT.
9. Possesses the excellent interpersonal skills necessary to articulate the value of a strong enterprise architecture function to critical business stakeholders.
10. 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.
11. Demonstrated proficiency in understanding enterprise architecture life cycle methodologies.

Pay Range:

The pay range for this role is: $172,260.00 to $258,280.00 for California.

Notes:

Please note that this range represents the pay range for this and many other positions at Blue Shield that fall into this pay grade. Blue Shield salaries are based on a variety of factors, including the candidate's experience, location (California, Bay area, or outside California), and current employee salaries for similar roles.

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