Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield is seeking a Distinguished Engineer to lead cross-functional efforts in delivering high-quality, scalable solutions. This leadership role will focus on technology transformation, guiding execution, and ensuring alignment with business goals and engineering excellence.
Responsibilities
- Define and communicate the technical vision, strategy, and direction for the company and the engineering team. Oversee the design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of products and solutions that meet the highest standards of quality, performance, and security
- Lead, manage, and inspire a team of engineers across multiple disciplines and locations. Establish and enforce best practices, processes, and methodologies for engineering excellence. Drive innovation and continuous improvement in engineering culture, practices, and tools
- Identify and resolve technical challenges and risks that may impact the delivery of products and solutions. Provide technical guidance, feedback, and mentorship to engineers and engineering managers
- Collaborate with senior executives, product managers, customers, and partners to understand the business goals, requirements, and expectations. Represent the company and the engineering team in external events, conferences, and forums. Stay abreast of the latest trends, technologies, and best practices in the industry
- Define, evolve, and apply engineering standards across initiatives while advancing an AI-first payer operating model
- Ensure solution designs align with reference and solution architectures
- Promote platform thinking to improve scalability, modularity, and interoperability
- Accelerate delivery while minimizing future risk and technical debt
- Establish engineering metrics, strengthen governance, and drive continuous improvement
- Establish and promote standardized development practices, including peer reviews
- Ensure secure coding standards and automated environment management
- Drive automation and orchestration across the software development life cycle, including continuous delivery
- Ensure solutions meet both functional and non-functional requirements
- Apply reliability engineering practices to strengthen production operations
- Lead resolution of the most complex technical issues while reducing technical debt
- Champion a culture of building solutions the right way, delivering quickly, running reliably, and continuously optimizing
- Federal employee, government programs, and regulatory alignment, including CMS, Medicare, Medicaid, and state-based requirements
- Health insurance core operations, including enrollment, authorization, claims, billing, and payment integrity; TriZetto Facets experience required
- AI-driven automation
- Cloud-native, digital-ready modernization; Azure and AWS experience required
- Partnership with Enterprise Architecture, Product Delivery, and Technology Services teams
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
- 10 years software engineering experience, with at least 5 years in a senior engineer or technical lead role with a proven track record of delivering successful products and solutions that meet the needs of customers and stakeholders
- Proven track record of designing and delivering large-scale, complex, and distributed software systems
- Expertise in multiple programming languages, frameworks, and paradigms, such as Java, Python, C#, .NET, Node.js, React, Angular, etc
- Strong knowledge of cloud computing, microservices, DevOps, data engineering, and machine learning
- Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate with diverse teams and stakeholders
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, with the ability to balance trade-offs and risks
- Health Insurance Technology and Industry experience
Benefits
- CareFirst offers a comprehensive benefits package
- Various incentive programs/plans
- 401k contribution programs/plans (all benefits/incentives are subject to eligibility requirements)
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