Company: Blue Shield Of California
Location: Oakland, CA
Posted on: March 27
Your Role
The Applications Support and Continuous Delivery team charter and role for this position is to advance platform and application solution design disciplines where the end goal is to build and establish platform engineering disciplines and best practices to effectively build and evangelize designs which utilize EA reference implementations and patterned solutions for asset reuse developing new or optimizing existing platforms (i.e., Pega, AIP, Facets, PIMS).
The Platform / IT Applications Solutions Engineer, Principal will report to 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 EAs proposed designs.
The principal will have independent yet partnered influence, authority our application and platform solution teams putting together the appropriate blueprints into how platforms should operate as we productize platforms for use by agile product delivery teams. 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 Work
In this role, you will:
Your Knowledge and Experience
Employer will sponsor visas for this position.
ABOUT THE TEAM Blue Shield of Californias 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 genuinely 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 continued commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion upholds our values and advances our goal of creating a healthcare system that is worthy of our family and friends while addressing health disparities, promoting social justice, and integrating health equity through our products, business practices, and presence as a corporate citizen.
Blue Shield has received awards and recognition for being a certified Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work, Military Friendly Employer, People Companies that Care, a Leading Disability Employer, and one of Californias top companies in volunteering and giving. Here at Blue Shield, we strive to make a positive change across our industry and communities join us!
Our Values:
Our Workplace Model:
At Blue Shield of California, we believe in fostering a workplace environment that balances purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility. As we continue to evolve our workplace model, our focus remains on creating spaces where our people can connect with purpose whether working in the office or through a hybrid approach by providing clear expectations while respecting the diverse needs of our workforce.
Two Ways of Working:
Hybrid (Default): Work from a business unit-approved office at least two (2) times per month (for roles below Director-level) or once per week (for Director-level roles and above). Exceptions:
Member-facing and approved out-of-state roles remain remote.
Employees living more than 50 miles from their assigned offices are expected to work with their managers on a plan for periodic office visits.
For employees with medical conditions that may impact their ability to work in-office, we are committed to engaging in an interactive process and providing reasonable accommodations to ensure their work environment is conducive to their success and well-being.
On-Site: Work from a business unit-approved office an average of four (4) or more days a week.
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.
Equal Employment Opportunity:
External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest records and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, State and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disability status and any other classification protected by Federal, State and local laws.
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