Platform Engineer

Wellmark, Inc. • Des Moines, IA

9d • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Platform Engineer, you will lead technical design efforts in collaboration with Solution Architects for highly integrated and complex application platforms. You will optimize security, information leverage and reuse, integration, performance, and availability, while ensuring solutions adhere to architecture standards. You will serve as a subject matter expert and resource for development and project teams, and work cross-functionally with business stakeholders and Solution Architects on technical planning and system delivery. You will advise on business process improvements and provide guidance on IT policies, procedures, tools, security, and infrastructure. You will also research and recommend emerging technologies, techniques, and tools that can add value to the organization.

The role includes leading and documenting technical designs, consulting with architects and project teams, and providing technical guidance on supported solutions, vendor evaluation and integration, design, implementation, and administration. You will support architecture governance and technical standards, provide design specifications for approval, and train and mentor others. The position is hybrid and is in the Technology department.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or direct and applicable work experience.
• At least 7 years of experience, including any combination of development experience and providing innovative solutions to complex issues.
• At least 4 years of experience in IT infrastructure, architecture design, and operations.
• Development experience with technologies such as Angular 2 or newer, NodeJS or newer, TypeScript, C#, .NET, Java, or SQL.
• Ability to adapt to major changes in work tasks or work environment.
• Informal leadership experience, typically gained through leading projects.
• Experience coaching or mentoring others by providing guidance and feedback to strengthen knowledge and skills.
• Experience designing technical architecture and keeping abreast of existing and emerging technologies.
• Experience consulting with stakeholders to understand needs and provide advice and counsel, and guiding individuals or groups to accomplish work, reach consensus, or take action.
• Problem-solving and troubleshooting skills, including breaking down complex problems, identifying root causes, generating and assessing solutions, and testing proposed solutions against likely outcomes.
• Verbal and written communication skills, including clear and concise communication, audience-appropriate presentations, and active listening.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Experience working within an Agile team environment.
• Leadership experience gained through a combination of project and informal leadership demonstrating relevant competencies.
• Experience partnering with global staffing vendors to deliver projects.
• Proficiency in HROR is highly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical designs for complex, highly integrated application platforms, optimizing security, information leverage and reuse, integration, performance, and availability while ensuring alignment with architecture standards and industry best practices.
• Consult with Solution Architects and project teams to create and document application-platform design deliverables.
• Collaborate with Solution and Lead Architects to design and implement technology solutions, identify improvement initiatives, eliminate redundancies, and maximize application reuse.
• When appropriate, oversee and lead planning, development, and estimation of technical solutions, collaborating with other technical teams to provide subject matter expertise.
• Collaborate with the Lead Architect for the assigned domain, business systems analysts, and other stakeholders to provide direction on process improvements.
• Consult with business stakeholders on technical planning to ensure architectures align with business expectations.
• Oversee, review, and provide technical guidance on supported solutions, including vendor evaluation, integration, design, implementation, and administration.
• Support and influence architecture governance and technical standards; provide design specifications for approval and guidance on IT policies, security, and infrastructure.
• Train and mentor others in technical design and solution implementation, including review and quality assurance.
• Build relationships and business acumen with stakeholders to align technical designs with business needs and provide customer-focused solutions.
• Apply industry best practices in technology, design, and methodology; research and recommend emerging technologies, techniques, and tools.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

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