Manager, IT Development

Job Description

Your Role

The Application Services team plays a critical role in enhancing customer and technical collaboration while delivering all application development through a Platform and Technology Product Operation Model. The Manager, IT Development role will report to the Director, IT Development (Integration and Interoperability Platform). In this role you will ensure the successful delivery of platform engineering that will enable API management, message-oriented middleware, managed file transfer, FHIR integration, and event streaming. You will coordinate technical scope, timelines, and team velocity as well as lead efforts to modernize release management practices, accelerating the use of automation and AI to improve delivery speed, reliability, and scalability. This role is ideal for a strategic and hands-on leader who thrives in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment and is passionate about building high-performing teams and enabling enterprise integration. 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.

Responsibilities

Your Work

In this role, you will:

• Lead platform engineering delivery in support of message-oriented middleware, managed file transfer, API management, and FHIR-based integration.
• Coordinate technical scope, delivery timelines, and team velocity across multiple workstreams.
• Modernize release management practices by accelerating the adoption of CI/CD pipeline automation, DevOps principles, and AI/ML-driven tooling.
• Oversee resource planning, performance management, and strategic talent allocation to support platform priorities.
• Collaborate with internal product owners, engineering leads, and external vendors to enable efficient and effective delivery of messaging, API, file transfer, and FHIR solutions.
• Partner with architects, technical leads, and business stakeholders to scope, prioritize, and sequence integration initiatives.
• Monitor KPIs and delivery metrics; recommend and implement improvements to enhance agility, quality, and operational reliability.
• Champion best practices in platform governance, including reusable asset development, lifecycle management, and secure data exchange protocols.
• Foster a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and developer enablement.
• Build and execute a modernization strategy for integration delivery, leveraging automation, AI/ML, and low-code/no-code tools to support the evolving Product/Platform operating model.
• Proactively identify and remove delivery blockers, ensuring platform efforts remain aligned with roadmaps and business outcomes.
• Drive continuous improvement across messaging, file transfer, API, and FHIR delivery pipelines and processes.

Qualifications

• Your Knowledge and Experience
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 7+ years of experience in technical delivery, program management, or platform engineering leadership roles.
• At least 3 years of leadership experience strongly preferred.
• Strong understanding of Agile delivery models, backlog management, and iterative development practices.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and interact effectively with all levels of management.
• Familiarity with enterprise messaging and exchange tools/platforms such as Azure API Management, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, Kafka, Retarus, IBM Sterling, IBM MQ, and/or Axway.
• Experience with work scheduling, prioritization, coaching, risk management, and delegation.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, collaboration, analytical, and presentation skills.
• Results-oriented leadership while promoting a positive and collaborative work environment.
• Desired experience with AI/ML concepts and tools, especially in the context of automation and platform operations.
• Desired expertise in process improvement, project management methodologies, or platform modernization.
• Desired knowledge of healthcare operations and a broad understanding of the industry.

About the Team

About Stellarus and the Ascendiun Family of Companies

Stellarus, launched in January 2025, is designed to scale innovative healthcare solutions that support customers in creating a health care experience deserving of their family, friends, and neighbors.

Stellarus is part of a family of organizations that is overseen by a nonprofit corporate entity named Ascendiun. The Ascendiun Family of Companies also includes Blue Shield of California and its subsidiary, Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan and Altais, a clinical services company.

Stellarus' vision is to empower its customers to create a healthcare experience that is worthy of their family, friends, and neighbors. Stellarus' objective is to offer innovative, modern, scalable solutions that challenge the health care status quo. This very closely aligns with Blue Shield of California's vision by using innovation to improve quality, affordability, and experience for members.

To achieve our mission, we foster an environment where all employees can thrive and contribute fully to address the needs of the various communities we serve. We are committed to creating and maintaining a supportive workplace that upholds our values and advances our goals.

Our Values:

At Stellarus, our core values of agility, trust, drive, courage and service shape our approach to developing innovative product offerings.

Our Workplace Model:

At Stellarus and the Ascendiun Family of Companies, we believe in fostering a workplace environment that balances purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility. As we continue to evolve our workplace model, our focus remains on creating spaces where our people can connect with purpose - whether working in the office or through a hybrid approach - by providing clear expectations while respecting the diverse needs of our workforce.

Two Ways of Working:

• Hybrid (Default): Work from a business unit-approved office at least two (2) times per month (for roles below Director-level) or once per week (for Director-level roles and above).Exceptions:

o Member-facing and approved out-of-state roles remain remote.

o Employees living more than 50 miles from their assigned offices are expected to work with their managers on a plan for periodic office visits.

o For employees with medical conditions that may impact their ability to work in-office, we are committed to engaging in an interactive process and providing reasonable accommodations to ensure their work environment is conducive to their success and well-being.

• On-Site: Work from a business unit-approved office an average of four (4) or more days a week.

Physical Requirements:

Office Environment - roles involving part to full time schedule in Office Environment. Based in our physical offices and work from home office/deskwork - Activity level: Sedentary, frequency most of work day.

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Equal Employment Opportunity:

External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest records and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, State and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disability status and any other classification protected by Federal, State and local laws.