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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 Application Services Development Manager manages the delivery of high-quality, highly available, highly scalable digital solutions to meet enterprise needs. The IT Application Manager will report to the Sr Director, IT Applications. In this role, you will be accountable for defining and implementing a good foundation on the BSC Digital Platform, managing and mentoring a technical development team, and partnering with the product owners and managers to ensure the team has the capabilities and capacity to meet business needs. 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 WorkIn 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 the overall implementation of departmental goals and objectives
- Be responsible for building and growing talent; support your team through encouragement and by example
- Collaborate with Digital Product owners and IT Product managers to plan for capability and capacity to meet current and future business needs
- Resolve issues and remediates risks to delivery, including working with peers who are accountable for the components the web platforms depend on (infrastructure, data sources, web services) to execute successful delivery
- Manage the engagement and oversight of vendor contractors
- Partners across IT Portfolio teams to deliver strategic and operational projects aligned with the highest business priorities
- Requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- Requires at least 7 years prior relevant experience, including 3 years of management experience gained as a team leader, supervisor, or project/program manager
- Experience with Agile methodologies
- Ability to influence cross-functionally and at all levels
- Possess a wide range of technical leadership skills necessary for leading and working side by side with tech leads, developers, system analysts, and architects
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audience
- 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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