• Be part of the Leadership Team that will drive architecture, process, and technology change throughout the Engineering Organization through transformational leadership. • Build leaders who are focused on continually improving the talent and capabilities of your software engineers. • Provide guidance to deliver software solutions to support the product roadmap for our industry. • Inspire your teams to “Execute and Win”, where winning is delivering real value to our customers and solving their business needs. • Challenge the team to deliver high quality products and help eliminate toil and automate solutions in order to become more efficient and self-sustaining. • Remove impediments across all teams by providing guidance and making key technical decisions, clearly communicating tradeoffs to business stakeholders. • Work with software engineers and architects to develop and maintain “Best Practices” policies and procedures for application technical implementation. • Establish monitoring and appropriate metrics for sustaining a highly available software platform in the future.

Role Description You could be the one who changes everything for our 28 million members by using technology to improve health outcomes around the world. As a diversified, national organization, Centene's technology professionals have access to competitive benefits including a fresh perspective on workplace flexibility. Position Purpose: - Manages the team members accountable for designing, developing, and implementing complex enterprise software solutions. - Collaborates closely with technical and non-technical roles such as data modelers, architects, business analysts, data stewards, and subject matter experts (SMEs) to provide design, technical analysis, development/configuration, testing, implementation, and support expertise representing the interest of the business across the enterprise. - Serves in a team leadership capacity with large-scale Application Development projects/programs. - Leads the build-out or expansion of coding standards initiatives. - Reports application progress and outcomes. - Provides coaching and career development planning to junior Application Developers. - Coordinates the work of 3rd party Development teams, holds 3rd party vendors accountable to our standards, policies, and performance expectations. - Identifies and evaluates risks and participates in mitigation and control activities. - Provides continuity with Application and Infrastructure Management operational groups during service transition. - Partners with Security and SRE teams, makes sure all security and change management policies are followed. - Assists in the design and development of proof of concept and prototype application environments. - Manages the hiring and training of new and existing staff, conducts performance/salary reviews, and provides leadership, technical guidance, and coaching to Developers executing all aspects of applications development. - Leads teams of Developers to help ensure the stable operation of application development activities. - Shares knowledge and develops staff capabilities to strengthen understanding of application development industry, business issues, and best practices; evaluates implications to IT. - Develops and communicates departmental objectives; inspires and motivates team members to achieve results. - Holds teams accountable to meet functional, quality, and timeline objectives. - Performs other duties as assigned. - Complies with all policies and standards. Qualifications - Requires a Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of related experience, or equivalent experience acquired through accomplishments of applicable knowledge, duties, scope, and skill reflective of the level of this position. Requirements - One or more of the following skills are desired: - Healthcare experience - AWS - Application Development Benefits - Competitive pay - Health insurance - 401K and stock purchase plans - Tuition reimbursement - Paid time off plus holidays - Flexible approach to work with remote, hybrid, field, or office work schedules Actual pay will be adjusted based on an individual's skills, experience, education, and other job-related factors permitted by law, including full-time or part-time status. Total compensation may also include additional forms of incentives. Benefits may be subject to program eligibility. Company Description Centene is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and values the ways in which we are different. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other characteristic protected by applicable law. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered in accordance with the LA County Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act.

• Build and lead a robust team of data and backend engineers by attracting top talent, mentoring individuals and managing conflict. • Work with product managers and lead the team to design and implement product features, while improving the quality of the current big-data intensive tools that exist for audiences and targeting. • Lead the team to utilize, homogenize and make available for peer teams to use, diverse large-volume datasets built around user preferences, behavior, identity and location - gathered from a user's mobile as well as other connected platforms. • Strong understanding of how data-intensive systems are expressed in the UX shown to customers. • Grow the technical expertise of the team around system design, quality and testing, scalability, performance and fault tolerance. • Manage OKRs, roadmaps, career conversations, performance and accountability, and thereby carefully plan, track, and report on work of the team and identify problems early. • Work closely with many peer teams to ensure that our systems are designed in a scalable and maintainable manner. • Nurture a culture of technical quality from design, through code review, to production. • Drive optimization, testing and tooling to improve data quality.

• Design, build, and improve machine learning systems that power safety across personalization surfaces such as recommendations, search, and emerging AI experiences • Contribute to the platformization of safety systems, enabling scalable and reusable solutions across teams • Develop and operate high-throughput, low-latency backend services powered by ML models • Partner with Product, Trust & Safety, and Content Platform to translate safety needs into practical technical solutions • Work on both traditional ML models and generative AI systems, including integrating third-party and in-house foundational models • Contribute to evaluation frameworks, including labeling strategies, ground truth creation, and model validation approaches • Collaborate with foundational model teams to embed safety into LLM-based and agent-driven experiences • Use metrics and experimentation to continuously improve system performance, safety outcomes, and user experience