Senior Software Engineer - Enterprise Data Services

About the role

Wellmark is seeking two talented Software Engineers to join the Enterprise Data Services Team within Information Products. In this role, you will design and deliver high-performing, scalable software solutions that support Wellmark’s evolving data and technology ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver high-performing, scalable software solutions that support Wellmark’s evolving data and technology ecosystem.
• Lead complex systems analysis and contribute to the development, testing, and optimization of applications that are efficient, reliable, and cost-effective.
• Collaborate closely with engineers and cross-functional partners to build and enhance platform capabilities using microservices architecture, automated testing, and CI/CD practices.
• Help drive the adoption of engineering best practices and emerging technologies while partnering across teams to deliver solutions aligned to business needs.
• Build strong relationships and contribute to technology enhancements and process improvements that enable data-driven decision-making across the organization.

Qualifications

• Hands-on engineering experience building backend services, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise-grade APIs or microservices, including RESTful and event-driven.
• Experience designing and delivering reusable platform capabilities, shared services, SDKs, templates, or internal developer enablement patterns that accelerate delivery across multiple teams.
• Experience with AWS technologies such as CDK, Lambda, Step Functions, Bedrock, S3, SNS, SQS, EventBridge, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Aurora/Postgres, EC2/ECS, CloudWatch, Glue, AWS Batch, and API Gateway.
• Expertise in AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) or comparable infrastructure-as-code frameworks, including authoring, testing, and maintaining reusable constructs and patterns.
• Experience designing and implementing secure, compliant solutions in regulated environments, such as HIPAA, SOC2, or similar, including authentication, authorization, data protection, audit logging, and policy enforcement.
• Experience implementing automated testing strategies across unit, integration, and end-to-end levels, and hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Enterprise Actions or similar tools.
• Exposure to real-time data pipelines, streaming integrations, or event-driven data processing.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, MIS, or related field of study, and at least 2 years of software development experience (ex. Angular, NodeJS, TypeScript, C++, .NET, Java, SQL) OR 6 years of related and applicable experience.
• Strong analytical problem-solving skills. Accuracy and high attention to detail. Previous experience troubleshooting and developing creative technical solutions. Ability to provide innovative solutions to complex issues.
• Demonstrated experience in software development lifecycle methodologies.
• Big picture thinker with the ability to translate the value of the WaaS strategy to company strategy when making design and development decisions.
• Demonstrated, strong ability to gather information, perform necessary research needed for root cause analysis, problem definition and formulation, recommend solution implementation, verification, and ongoing optimization, using data to support recommendations and best practices.
• Demonstrated ability to build relationships to reach outcomes that gain the support and acceptance of all parties. Ability to communicate key information in a timely manner to the appropriate stakeholder audience with the ability to adjust communication style that will best suit the audience.
• Ability to communicate with and coach/mentor team members, while setting an example in maintaining a positive attitude, staying calm under pressure, being approachable, and respecting and taking responsibility for failures.
• Ability to thrive in fast-paced environment with changing priorities. Excellent organizational skills. Strong time management skills with the ability to set and meet established timeframes with little direction, while assuring data and information integrity.
• Eagerness to learn and stay current on industry trends and have a continuous learning mindset.
• Ability to collaborate and work as a team to accomplish goals and/or solve problems. Ability to earn trust and respect from peers, leadership, and stakeholders. Ability to learn by actively listening and applying coaching feedback.
• Ability to lead, support and work within a diverse development team model including global staffing, crowd sourcing, etc.