Job description
Join Our Team: Do Meaningful Work and Improve People’s Lives
Our purpose, to improve customers’ lives by making healthcare work better, is far from ordinary. And so are our employees. Working at Premera means you have the opportunity to drive real change by transforming healthcare.
To better serve our customers, we’re creating a culture that promotes employee growth, collaborative innovation, and inspired leadership.
Forbes ranked Premera among America’s 2022 Best Midsize Employers
because we are committed to creating an environment where employees can do their best work and where best-in-class talent comes, stays, and thrives!
COVID-19 Vaccination Policy:
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As a Director, Engineering, you will enable and lead multiple software or platform engineering teams that own Applications/Services for Premera IT. You will collaborate across Premera to deliver products and services to keep pace with customer needs. In addition, this role will lead the strategy for agile engineering and agile adoption in large scale using SAFe/LeSS. This position will provide leadership, coordination, and strategic planning to accomplish departmental and corporate goals and objectives
What you will do:
- Lead multiple Engineering teams that own applications/services.
- Drive a DevOps transformation establishing modern engineering processes, practices, and culture.
- Drive a Live Site culture within and peer engineering teams.
- Drive technical strategy, design and implementation for the applications/services owned by the teams.
- Influence technical strategy, design, and implementation of peer engineering teams and overall Premera.
- Partner effectively with peers in architecture, business, and Product/Program Management to establish healthy roadmaps for the application/services.
- Plan and oversee the capacity planning, training, and technical support approach for reporting organization.
- Lead Agile function that includes coaches and other agile roles
- Establish and execute a roadmap for Agile engineering including ADO standards for agile execution
- Provide technical and execution leadership for initiatives assigned.
- Lead technical evaluation and DevOps model for any third-party platform/software/service that may be required to be implemented to support a business scenario.
- Develop technology strategies that support long-term growth and sustainability. Develop an operational plan that is flexible in a changing environment.
- Continually seek and consider innovative solutions to business problems and apply as relevant in support of the organization's mission, culture, and philosophy. Develop best practices and drive the process of creative thinking and solutions. Lead change and adoption of new processes and technologies.
- In collaboration with senior leaders, develop and achieve a resilient organizational structure and workforce to support long-term objectives. Provide opportunities and framework for team members' career advancement. Responsible for the interpretation, communication, and understanding of department and company goals, mission, and philosophy to associates. Provide consistent performance feedback.
- Working with leadership, determine where financial and human capital resources are best utilized and allocated to maintain operational excellence. Responsible for establishing and operating within department budget.
- Maintain knowledge of competing projects and programs across departments and outside area of accountability. Collaborate with peers to prioritize projects, deliverables and resolve competing priorities. As part of a collective senior management team, provide recommendations.
What you will do:
- Twelve years’ experience in software or platform engineering
- Five years of experience managing engineers or teams.
- Experience with Live Site monitoring and operating in DevOps Agile environment.
- Four years of experience designing secure, scalable, and cost-efficient PaaS (Platform as a Service) solutions on the Microsoft Azure platform or equivalent cloud platform.
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field or four years’ work experience.
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What we offer
- Medical, vision and dental coverage
- Life and disability insurance
- Retirement programs (401K employer match and pension plan)
- Wellness incentives, onsite services, a discount program and more
- Tuition assistance for undergraduate and graduate degrees
- Generous Paid Time Off to reenergize
- Free parking
Equal employment opportunity/affirmative action:
Premera is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Premera seeks to attract and retain the most qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
If you need an accommodation to apply online for positions at Premera, please contact Premera Human Resources via email at careers@premera.com or via phone at 425-918-4785.
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