Senior Software Engineer - Enterprise Data Services at Wellmark
Des Moines, IA
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Jun 28, 2026
Des Moines, IA
Jul 20, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
Senior level · 6+ years · Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 170 people in the Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 130–220
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $126,460 (middle half $101,550–$140,390).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The role is titled 'Senior Software Engineer' but the Required section sets a notably low bar: a Bachelor's degree plus 2 years of experience (or 6 years without a degree). The seniority assessment is based on the 6-year path and the scope described (leading complex systems analysis, mentoring, driving best practices), which aligns with Senior rather than Mid.
Degree requirement is set to None because the JD explicitly accepts '6 years of related and applicable experience' as an alternative to the Bachelor's degree.
The overall years minimum is set to 6, reflecting the experience-only path stated in the Required section; the 2-year path requires a degree and is the lower bound only when paired with a Bachelor's.
All AWS services and cloud/engineering skills appear under a 'Preferred' heading in the JD, so they are marked as preferred rather than required.
The Required section lists example languages/frameworks ('ex. Angular, NodeJS, TypeScript, C++, .NET, Java, SQL') as illustrative examples of software development experience, not as individual hard gates on specific technologies. Angular is emitted as the primary with the others as alternatives to represent this single 'software development experience' requirement.
The role sits on an Enterprise Data Services / data lakehouse team, giving it a secondary data-engineering flavor (hence the alt SOC of 15-1243), but the primary day-to-day work described is building backend microservices and platform software, pointing to 15-1252.
No compensation range was provided in the posting.
Location is inferred as Des Moines, IA — Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield's headquarters — as no explicit city is stated in the posting.
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