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Blue Shield of California's mission is to ensure all Californians have access to high-quality health care at a sustainably affordable price. We are transforming health care in a way that truly serves our nonprofit mission by lowering costs, improving quality, and enhancing the member and physician experience.
To fulfill our mission, we must ensure a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment where all employees can be their authentic selves and fully contribute to meet the needs of the multifaceted communities we serve. Our comprehensive approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion combines a focus on our people, processes, and systems with a deep commitment to promoting social justice and health equity through our products, business practices, and presence as a corporate citizen.Blue Shield has received awards and recognition for being a certified Great Place to Work, best place to work for LGBTQ equality, leading disability employer, one of the best companies for women to advance, Bay Area's top companies in volunteering & giving, and one of the world's most ethical companies. Here at Blue Shield of California, we are striving to make a positive change across our industry and the communities we live in - join us!Your RoleThe Applications Support and Continuous Delivery team charter is to advance platform design disciplines where the end goal is to build and establish a platforms engineering team to effectively build and evangelize designs for referenced implementations and patterned solutions as reusable assets in developing or enhancing our platforms (i.e., Pega, AIP, Facets, PIMS). This will be achieved in developing platform development standards, best practices, building in testability and cultivating quality craftsmanship into our platforms to best support shepherding each Portfolio's Development service outcomes into Production. Critical capabilities designing for reference implementations/patterns, advocate and partnering with various IT Portfolios and platform consumers, standardizing adoption, guiding IT service developers with platform use/implementation and forming community and feedback loops around other platform solution engineers will be success factors that will drive Platform Solution engineering excellence. The Platform Solutions Engineer, Principal will report into the Sr. Manager.In this role as a technical leader, you thrive best in creating impact by exercising your technical leadership and capabilities, influence, having access and partnership with EA, Infrastructure and Development/ Support partners across the enterprise to enable building of Business/IT service solutions with common platform standards and in interpreting, for development teams, how to correctly build against EA's vision.The principal will have independent access, influence, authority into all platform teams putting together the appropriate blueprints into how platforms should operate. Key qualities include platform systems evaluation, having strategic thought observing anti-patterns, and identifying needs that support platform demands for the service development community, continually striving for engineering excellence that enables portfolios to deliver backlog in a faster and standardized manner.Your WorkIn this role, you will:- Own, manage and execute platform management practice for key foundational IT platforms
- Partner with enterprise architecture to define platform solution patterns. Ensure these solutions practices are understood and adopted by all the various IT teams (agile development teams)
- Lead the team of developers to provide reference implementations for various solutions patterns on IT platforms
- Train various development teams on platform adoption / usage and best practices through platform solution patterns and reference implementation
- Partner with enterprise architecture team to understand enterprise technology roadmap and ensure the solution architecture/design created by IT Portfolio teams reflect them
- Provide leadership, mentorship and advisory services to IT portfolio and product(agile) teams to ensure that solutions are in line with the strategic architecture direction
- Demonstrate strong problem-solving ability and analytical skills
- Participate with other senior leaders to establish strategic plans and objectives
- Provide technical leadership in establishing a platform community of practice with various stakeholders
- Effectively communicate approach, value, risk, alternatives, and status of goal progress with executive & senior management, business sponsors, and product managers
- Be self-directed, work with limited management direction and exercise considerable latitude in determining technical objectives of assignment
- Apply significant knowledge of IT and healthcare industry trends
- Manage the identification and resolution of technical debt
- Requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- Requires at least 10 years of prior relevant experience
- Very strong technical acumen & deep working knowledge of Agile Methods, Service Architecture, and enterprise Cloud Integration
- Primary Expertise: Java, Spring Framework, Apache Camel, Kafka, REST, API, IBM API Connect, Gateway Script, IBM Data Power, OAUTH, Open-ID, FHIR, Cloud integration (Google, Azure), Docker, Kubernetes, Containers, Microservices
- Valuable Experience: Git (Bitbucket), Jira, Jenkins, Tableau, Splunk, Business Objects, Service Market Place, Python, Facets (Claims), Tidal, Informatica, Oracle, SQL, Unix, other scripting
- Strong ability to influence, collaborate, and build relationships with key stakeholders, vendors, and cross-functional teams
- Ability to assess potential opportunities, risks, and issues, and make recommendations to resolve or course-correct as necessary
- Ability to effectively manage meetings and work regularly with a variety of stakeholders
- Effective verbal and written communication skills including the ability to create, translate, and execute technical deliverables
- Proven experience educating & influencing others and collaborating across all functions and levels in a highly matrixed organization
- Healthcare experience in claims processing & payments is preferred (Facets, FHIR)
- Experience with relevant software development tools, industry protocols, troubleshooting & support procedures, monitoring & quality controls, and communication/documentation software
- Honest. We hold ourselves to the highest ethical and integrity standards. We build trust by doing what we say we're going to do and by acknowledging and correcting where we fall short
- Human. We strive to be our authentic selves, listening and communicating effectively, and showing empathy towards others by walking in their shoes
- Courageous. We stand up for what we believe in and are committed to the hard work necessary to achieve our ambitious goals
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