Your Role

The IT Applications team plays a critical role in enhancing business and IT collaboration while delivering all application development through a Portfolio based model. The Senior Principal Applications Services Engineer will report to the Vice President of IT Applications. In this role you will play a key role as part of the IT Applications leadership team in delivering and collaborating on all aspects of Application cloud migration strategy and Application Services design, development, and support. 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:

• Be recognized as an expert and thought leader - Plan, execute and oversee the migration of Blue Shield's business application portfolio to Microsoft's Azure cloud
• Be responsible for solution designs for 60 million IT Applications portfolio
• Define and roll out standards and best practices for IT Application development
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture directors and business directors to align IT Applications roadmap with EA and business roadmaps
• Research, design, test, and evaluate new technologies and vendor solutions
• Scan industry trends and enable specific use case-based adaptation / evaluation
• Autonomously lead multiple cross-functional teams throughout the entire life cycle of solution development, including deployment and post-deployment
• Provide ongoing coaching and mentoring to technical leads and principal engineers while leading the establishment of communities of practice to facilitate collaboration and best-practice sharing among key individual contributors
• Develop, prepare, and present complex analysis for Senior/Executive Management review
• Influence, maintain and sustain ITs reputation for fiscal responsibility

Your Knowledge and Experience

• Requires a minimum of 12 years of relevant experience, including 10 years of experience in Software design/development, cloud native architecture and implementations, mobile applications, application architecture, software as a service (SaaS), software integration, automated software testing, continuous integration/continuous delivery, working in DevSecOps
• Master's or bachelor's degree preferred; Computer science or other related experience
• Viewed as the leading expert and/or resource within the field by peers within and outside the organization
• Experience with developing productive relationships with business leaders across the organization to influence how applications can enable new sources of value
• Strong communication skills with a proven ability to understand key technical concepts and communicate effectively with technical staff, business stakeholders and senior management to enhance understanding and drive decisions that lead to positive outcomes
• Proven ability to collaborate, build relationships and influence individuals at all levels in a matrix-management environment (as well as external vendors and service providers) to ensure that segregation and overlapping roles are identified and coordinated
• Strong organizational skills, the ability to perform under pressure and management of multiple priorities with competing demands for resources

Pay Range:

The pay range for this role is: $ 172260.00 to $ 258280.00 for California.

Note:

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.