Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island is seeking a Manager for Data & Integration Platforms to provide strategic and operational leadership for the enterprise data ecosystem. The role involves overseeing data, ELT, API, and AI platforms, leading a multidisciplinary team, and ensuring modern, scalable, and secure data infrastructure to support advanced analytics and enterprise interoperability.
Responsibilities
- Define and execute strategy for enterprise data, integration, AI and API platforms aligned to business, architecture, and cloud objectives
- Own and evolve data, AI, API, and integration platforms as productized capabilities, driving governance, intake, prioritization, and cross‑team alignment to deliver measurable business value
- Manage platform budgets, vendor relationships, operational metrics, and continuous optimization
- Establish and govern enterprise standards for API design, integration patterns, security, observability, and lifecycle management while owning and operating the API and integration platforms that enable scalable service‑to‑service communication
- Monitor emerging technology and market trends and update the data and integration platform design practices and tools as capabilities change over time
- Oversee architecture and evolution of modern data platforms to enable scalable and reusable integrations and data capabilities supporting analytics, interoperability, and AI use cases following industry best practices
- Drive adoption of modern engineering practices, including CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, cloud-native architecture, automated testing, and environment standardization
- Enable and govern AI and intelligent integrations across platforms in alignment with enterprise security, privacy, and ethical AI standards
- Implement and enforce data governance, privacy, and security controls, ensuring compliance with architectural standards, regulatory requirements, and organizational policies
- Maintain documentation including standards, SOPs, release notes, and platform governance artifacts
- Communicate platform vision, roadmaps, KPIs, opportunities and risks and operational health to technology and business stakeholders in clear, concise, and accessible terms
- Provide leadership and coaching to data, integration, and API product managers and engineers, fostering a high-performing, collaborative, and growth-oriented team environment
- Perform other duties as assigned
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field; or an equivalent combination of education and related work experience
- Five to seven years of experience in data engineering, integration engineering, cloud engineering, or related disciplines
- Three to five years of leadership experience in team or technical management roles
- Strong expertise in data architecture, ELT frameworks, data warehousing, lakehouse patterns, and metadata management
- Experience with Snowflake, Azure Data Platforms, Netezza, Microsoft SQL, PostgreSQL and Cosmos
- Knowledge of data governance frameworks, data quality programs, and regulatory compliance
- Proficiency with cloud platforms (e.g., Azure), including storage, compute, integration, and data services
- Experience with API management platforms (Google Apigee, Azure APIM), RESTful service design, messaging systems, and event-driven architectures
- Strong understanding of SQL, Python, and modern data pipeline tooling (e.g., Matillion, Databricks, Azure Data Factory, dbt, Datastage)
- Knowledge of CI/CD, Git-based workflows, containerization, and infrastructure-as-code tools
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts for business audiences
- Demonstrated ability to lead teams, prioritize diverse workstreams, and deliver high-quality outcomes in a fast-paced environment
- Strong work effectively in dynamic, cross-functional environments
- Ability to lead multiple complex initiatives in a fast-paced environment
- Strategic and critical thinking with a focus on customer experience and business value
- Strong organizing skills, with the ability to prioritize and respond to shifting deadlines
- Problem-solving, strategic thinking, and stakeholder management capabilities
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT Management, or related field
- Certifications in cloud technologies (Azure preferred), data engineering, or integration platforms
- Experience leading large-scale data modernization or cloud modernization initiatives
- Knowledge in prompt engineering, LLM tuning and NLP tasks
- Experience with observability for prompts/models (hallucination detection, guardrails, cost/latency tracking)
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangements that include remote and hybrid opportunities and paid time off
- Tuition reimbursement and assist with student-loan repayment
- Health, dental, and vision insurance as well as programs that support your mental health and well-being
- Bonuses and investment plans
- Paid time to volunteer
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