Platform Engineer - Product Development and Quoting

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!

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.

This role will partner with product team members and other engineers in support of the Market Solutions and Large Group Sell and Renew product teams, which are focused on improving the product development and quoting lifecycle as well as making the experience of doing business with Wellmark as seamless, efficient, and accurate as possible.

As a Platform Engineer, you will provide technical leadership across the technology ecosystem supporting product and benefit configuration, quoting, document generation, and the distribution of shared product and benefit information to downstream systems. You will provide system-level technical leadership and have accountability for this highly integrated technology ecosystem. You will partner closely with Solution Architects, Product Managers, business stakeholders, Security, Infrastructure, other shared services and engineering teams throughout solution shaping and technical planning.

You will help translate logical architecture into implementable designs, define integration strategies and physical design patterns, assess infrastructure and operational impacts, and ensure dependencies and risks are understood before PI execution. You will play a key role in ensuring these capabilities work together effectively, meet evolving business needs, and align with Wellmark technology and architecture standards.

• Experience collaborating across an enterprise to ensure successful partners and relationships are built and nurtured.
• Demonstrated systems engineering experience designing, integrating, and supporting complex, integrated enterprise technology solutions.
• Proficient in developing and supporting modern web applications and services using Angular, Node.js, JavaScript/Type Script, or comparable frameworks and runtime technologies.
• Experience designing and supporting integrated solutions using AWS or a comparable cloud platform, including APIs, event-driven architectures, messaging, and shared data services.
• Experience designing and supporting solutions using relational and No
  
  SQL databases, including technologies such as Amazon Aurora/SQL and MongoDB.
• Experience working within Agile product delivery or software engineering environments.
• Previous formal or informal leadership experience

• 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…