Cloud Engineer, Sr. Principal

Your Role

The Developer and Employee Experience team is responsible for 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:

• Help create the sense of psychological safety, enabling teams to try and learn new areas of technology.

• Solve technical problems of the highest scope and complexity for the entire organization

• Collaborates with and leads other architects and engineers to create and document standards and patterns that can be leveraged for future re-use, and actively seek opportunities to leverage industry solutions for new business offerings and services

• Drives innovation across engineering with a willingness to experiment and bodly confront problems of immense complexity and scope

• Exert significant influence over BlueShield of California long-term goals and execution

• Ensure that our standards for style, maintainability, and best practices are suitable for the unique problems of scale and diversity of use represented by BlueShield of California

• Drive significant improvements for BlueShield of California use, ease of development, and technical efficiency through effective collaboration and prolific technical contributions.

• Provide mentorship for engineers, with a particular focus on Staff+ engineers, to help them grow in their responsibilities.

• Share expertise across the entire organization

• Ship extremely high-impact features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other members of the organization

• Serves as a trusted advisor to leaders and business stakeholders in the development of the strategic portfolio or business unit plans

• Provides comprehensive analytical thinking to ensure transformation costs, impact and value are properly understood estimated and controlled across people, process and technology

• Collaborates with customers, vendors, industry consultants and senior company leadership to continuously learn and identify opportunities to advance on our business strategy

• Defines the technology roadmap and architecture to accelerate cloud initiatives

• Understanding of business process design methods and tools a plus

• Strong situational analysis and decision making abilities

• Ability to tailor communications to the C-suite level