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Sr. Director, Developer Experience

Company:
Blue Shield of California
Location:
Oakland, CA
Posted:
May 03, 2025
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Description:

Your Role

The Developer and Employee Experience team is responsible for creating the ability to service our employee communities by providing them modern tools that increase efficiency and our ability to impact healthcare overall. The Senior Director, Developer Experience will report to the Vice President of Developer and Employee Experience. In this role you will you will partner to create a path to transform how our application teams deliver outcomes and ensure that we are fully adopting cloud. Our leadership model is about developing great leaders at all levels and creating opportunities for our people to grow – personally, professionally, and financially. We are looking for leaders that are energized by creative and critical thinking, building and sustaining high-performing teams, getting results the right way, and fostering continuous learning.

Your Work

In this role, you will:

Establish culture of empowerment and accountability across the organization by championing transformational change

Lead IT Financial management processes to drive the adoption and utilization of TBM and FinOps practices that provide transparency into IT costs, TCO, show back, consumption, and operational and financial performance

Drive software engineering expertise coupled with cloud architecture experience to drive innovation, optimize processes, and accelerate growth

Drive relationship management skills with an ability to establish partnerships with senior leadership in all IT domains

Provide leadership to support, grow, and empower teams responsible for creating and supporting our cloud strategy, automated path to production through our Internal Development Platform, while maintaining our focus on cost optimization through our FinOps practice

Be a champion for Innovation – understand and articulate trends that create business and financial value for the organization. Be aware of emerging technologies and their impact on the business; work with technology architecture to sponsor and evangelize new technologies across the enterprise

Lead collaboration with the Product, Engineering and IT Security teams to design and build world class capabilities. Influencing and then enabling the modernization of our application release and management, as we embrace DevSecOps and our product “mind-set”

Oversee the planning and delivery of cloud transformation initiatives, and develop goals aligned with customer needs, delivery speed, and cost and service objectives.

Maintain currency through an active life cycle process for all areas of responsibility

Your Knowledge and Experience

Requires a master's degree in computer science, information technology, management information system, or equivalent experience

Requires at least 15 years of relevant experience

Requires at least 8 years of experience managing technical teams including at least 5 years of progressive experience of managing diverse technical teams, concurrently

Experience with leading development teams through transformation as we embrace modern DevSecOps practices with use of CI/CD

Experience operating complex multi-datacenter and multi-cluster environments, and strong understanding of multi-tenancy and security

Experience in automation/configuration management using Ansible or an equivalent preferred

Knowledge base & experience in Cloud automation, core infrastructure technologies, information security and cloud migration

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