[Hiring] EIT Engineering Team Lead @BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee

Role Description

The Authentication Engineering team is seeking an experienced Engineering Team Lead to drive the evolution of enterprise authentication and federation experiences across the organization. The role is responsible for leading a team of engineers focused on designing, building, and scaling authentication solutions that support numerous partner/external-facing applications. The ideal candidate will bring strong technical skills in federation technologies and identity protocols, along with the ability to lead and mentor engineers in delivering solutions.

As a hands-on technical product owner, you will partner closely with architecture, infrastructure, security, and application development teams to:

• Mature and standardize authentication capabilities
• Expand federation standards
• Improve user access experiences

This role is critical to ensuring secure, resilient, and scalable identity services that support the organization’s broader technology and business objectives, while maintaining operational excellence in a highly regulated environment. This is a fully remote role that combines technical leadership, architecture, and hands-on engineering, with responsibility for guiding the team’s technical direction and delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in a Computer Sciences related field or equivalent work experience.
• 5 years of experience with information technology concepts, application development and/or enterprise system maintenance methodology, terminology, and standards required.
• 5 years of systems maintenance and/or programming experience required.
• 3 years of expert working knowledge of at least one programming language and/or one enterprise system in use at BCBST.

Requirements

• Strong experience with identity and federation platforms (PingIdentity suite or similar applications).
• Deep understanding of authentication and federation protocols (SAML, OAuth, OIDC).
• Proven experience leading and mentoring engineering teams while remaining hands-on with technical solutions.
• Experience designing and supporting large-scale SSO integrations and identity ecosystems.
• Participation in an on-call rotation is required to support critical authentication platforms.

Benefits

• Remote work opportunity.
• Professional development opportunities.
• Engagement in a collaborative team environment.

Company Description

BCBST BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, Inc. is committed to recruiting, hiring, training, and promoting individuals in all job classifications without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, citizenship, pregnancy, veteran status, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.