Platform Engineer, Sr. Principal

Blue Shield of California • Oakland, CA

9h

About The Position

Your Role The Developer and Employee Experience team is responsible for the creation of the standards 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 Agentic AI driven DevOps operating model. The Sr. Principal Platform 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.

Requirements

• Requires a college degree or equivalent experience
• Requires a minimum of 12 years relevant business and IT experience with wide array of cloud services across Azure, GCP, or AWS
• 5+ years of architecture practice experience
• Expert architect who champions and continuously drives the advancement of the architecture operating model, governance, processes, policies, standards, and framework for the Enterprise Architecture capability
• Creates, refines and puts into practice repeatable architecture frameworks and processes to enable complex cross-functional initiatives related to major business initiatives
• Provides vision and strategic direction for one or more architecture domains (business, information, application and technology)
• Develop and maintain strategies and solutions for the enterprise in collaboration with executive leadership across the business and IT
• Possesses the excellent interpersonal skills necessary to articulate the value of a strong enterprise architecture function to critical business stakeholders
• Advanced knowledge and experience with cloud technologies, defining technology standards and implementation roadmaps for one or more of the following: Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services.
• In-depth knowledge of implementing and leveraging AI, Agentic AI and LLM models.
• Demonstrated proficiency in understanding cloud life cycle methodologies
• Proficiency in at least one relevant programming language (Python, C#, Java, etc.)
• In depth knowledge of multiple cloud hosting providers, including Microsoft Azure and AWS
• Kubernetes experience strongly desired

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the development and maintenance of enterprise architecture blueprints that articulate our business strategy, future state business and technology architecture, and multiyear execution roadmap, with a focus on AI and Agentic AI best practices.
• Applies expert level architecture knowledge and skills across multiple domain areas (business, information, application and technology) in driving the advancement of our corporate strategy.
• Collaborates with and leads other architects 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
• Develops and maintains reference architecture which includes the reference model, guiding principles, standards, patterns and usage guidelines
• Create contextual and conceptual models that help document and simplify potentially complex topics
• Serve 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
• Collaborate 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, using AI and Agentic AI tools and capabilities.
• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level