Platform Engineer - Internal Developer Platform & Developer

• Full-time
• Department:
  Technology
• Pay Grade: 26

Why Wellmark
:
We are a mutual insurance company owned by our policy holders across Iowa and South Dakota, and we’ve built our reputation on over 80 years’ worth of trust. We are not motivated by profits. We are motivated by the well-being of our friends, family, and neighbors–our members. If you’re passionate about joining an organization working hard to put its members first, to provide best-in-class service, and one that is committed to sustainability and innovation, consider applying today!

Why Wellmark Technology?Wellmark is building innovative, modern solutions using cutting edge technology. We are driving organizational transformation and business strategy by empowering our technology team to innovate new and elegant solutions to enhance the customer experience. Together, we are leaning into the future, owning the outcome, and driving organizational change to transform how we work.

Utilizes established relationships with Wellmark leaders and acts as a consultant on platform capabilities, engineering delivery challenges, process improvements, and technology enhancements. Provides technical leadership and contributes to the direction and evolution of the internal developer platform initiatives, including software catalogs, platform integrations, self-service experiences, and continuous improvement of developer workflows.

Preferred:

• Experience working within Agile product delivery or software engineering environments.
• Experience building or supporting internal developer platforms, developer portals, and self-service engineering capabilities.
• Experience developing internal developer platform integrations, automation, and self-service capabilities using AWS services, APIs, SDKs, and infrastructure as code
• Experience integrating internal developer platforms with source control, cloud platforms, CI/CD systems, security tooling, documentation, observability solutions, service management systems, and enterprise data sources.
• Experience developing self-service workflows, templates, automation, documentation, and onboarding capabilities that improve developer productivity and platform adoption.
• Experience identifying developer friction and driving measurable improvements across developer journeys, tools, processes, platforms, and teams.
• Experience using platform health, adoption, usage, reliability, or developer productivity measures to identify opportunities and evaluate outcomes.
• Experience operating and continuously improving an internal engineering platform, including monitoring, troubleshooting, documentation, and service ownership.
• Experience applying product management principles to internal engineering platforms, including gathering developer feedback, prioritizing capabilities, and measuring platform adoption, effectiveness, and alignment with engineering standards.

Required:

• Bachelor's Degree or direct and applicable work experience
• Minimum 7 years of experience including development experience, innovative solutions, infrastructure, architecture design and operations
• Minimum 4 years of experience in IT infrastructure, architecture design, operations
• Informal leadership, coaching, mentoring, architecture design, stakeholder consulting, problem solving and strong communication skills.

a. Lead the technical designs for highly integrated complex application platforms to optimize security, information leverage and reuse, integration, performance, and availability and ensure solutions developed adhere and align to the architecture standards.

b. Consult with Solution Architects and project teams in the creation and documentation of design deliverables for application platforms and…