Platform Engineer - Product Development and Quoting

Wellmark•Des Moines, IA

About The Position

The Platform Engineer partners with product team members and engineers supporting the Market Solutions and Large Group Sell and Renew product teams. These teams aim to improve the product development and quoting lifecycle and make doing business with Wellmark seamless, efficient, and accurate. The role provides technical leadership across the technology ecosystem for product and benefit configuration, quoting, document generation, and distribution of shared product and benefit information to downstream systems. It carries system-level technical leadership and accountability for this highly integrated ecosystem. The engineer works closely with Solution Architects, Product Managers, business stakeholders, Security, Infrastructure, shared services, and other engineering teams during solution shaping and technical planning. The role translates logical architecture into implementable designs; defines integration strategies and physical design patterns; assesses infrastructure and operational impacts; and ensures dependencies and risks are understood before PI execution. It helps ensure capabilities work together effectively, meet evolving business needs, and align with Wellmark technology and architecture standards.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree or direct and applicable work experience.
Minimum 7 years of experience, including development, innovative solutions, infrastructure, architecture design, and operations.
Minimum 4 years of experience in IT infrastructure, architecture design, and operations.
Informal leadership, coaching, and mentoring skills.
Architecture design, stakeholder consulting, and problem-solving skills.
Strong communication skills.

Nice To Haves

Experience collaborating across an enterprise to build and nurture successful partnerships and relationships.
Demonstrated systems engineering experience designing, integrating, and supporting complex, integrated enterprise technology solutions.
Proficiency developing and supporting modern web applications and services using Angular, Node.js, JavaScript/TypeScript, or comparable frameworks and runtime technologies.
Experience designing and supporting integrated solutions using AWS or a comparable cloud platform, including APIs, event-driven architectures, messaging, and shared data services.
Experience designing and supporting solutions using relational and NoSQL databases, including technologies such as Amazon Aurora/SQL and MongoDB.
Experience working within Agile product delivery or software engineering environments.
Previous formal or informal leadership experience.

Responsibilities

Lead technical designs for highly integrated, complex application platforms, optimizing security, information leverage and reuse, integration, performance, and availability, and ensuring solutions adhere to architecture standards.
Consult with Architects and project teams to create and document application platform design deliverables and collaborate on effective technology solutions.
May oversee and lead technical solution planning, development, and estimation, collaborating with other technical teams.
Collaborate with Architects, business systems analysts, and stakeholders 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 evaluations and integrations.
Support architecture governance standards and provide guidance on IT policies, security, and infrastructure.
Provide training and mentorship on technical design and solution implementation.
Build strong business relationships to ensure technical designs align with business needs.
Develop and apply industry best practices and recommend emerging technologies.
Perform other duties as assigned.