Anticipated End Date:2026-08-31
Position Title:Lead Engineer
Job Description:Lead EngineerLocation: This role requires associates to be in-office 1-2 days per week, fostering collaboration and connectivity, while providing flexibility to support productivity and work-life balance. This approach combines structured office engagement with the autonomy of virtual work, promoting a dynamic and adaptable workplace. Alternate locations may be considered if candidates reside within a commuting distance from an office.
Please note that per our policy on hybrid/virtual work, candidates not within a reasonable commuting distance from the posting location(s) will not be considered for employment, unless an accommodation is granted as required by law.
The
Lead Engineer is responsible for full delivery of end-to-end system development and maintenance on medium Enterprise-wide technology platforms, and delivery of application technology solutions and data information planning effort.
How you will make an impact: - Maintains active relationships with customers to determine business requirements and leads requirements gathering meetings.
- Leads efforts with Web and marketing team to increase the presence of web products.
- May implement improvements in stability, performance, and scalability across major business-critical systems.
- May implement process to reduce barriers and roadblocks in projects, services, and processes in order to operate more efficiently.
- Owns the change request process and coordinates with other teams as necessary.
- Develops and owns list of final enhancements.
- Develops and defines application scope and objectives and supervises the preparation of technical and/or functional specifications from with programs will be written.
- Performs technical design reviews and code reviews.
- Ensures unit test is completed and meets the test plan requirements, system testing is completed and system is implemented according to plan.
- Responsible for delivery of application technology solutions and data information planning effort. Coordinates and manages on-call support and owns the system monitoring process.
- Owns the technical development environment and works on theEnterprise team. Leads multiple or large projects and facilitates large group JAD sessions for requirements, modeling in several disciplines.
- Leads vendor evaluation and analysis.
- Creates architectural solutions that articulate the business context, conceptual design, and component-level logical design.
- Recommends new technologies based upon business value drivers and return on investment
- Drives new technologies towards implementation and exploitation
- Works on infrastructure improvements for the application along with devops & development teams
- Works with product owners, performance testing team and dev leads to improve application performance and improve security
- Establishes overall systems architecture vision and ensures specific components are appropriately designed and leveraged
- Contributes to the holistic vision of Enterprise Architecture.
- Defines architecture standards and anticipate areas where architecture standards may need to be developed that are in-line with customer, IT and industry standards.
- Directs the construction of architecture components (e.g., data architecture, application architecture, technical architecture).
- Works with business units to translate business strategy into discrete requirements compatible with current technical architectures.
- Defines systems, technical, and application architectures for new strategic initiatives;
- Develops and maintains an architectural blueprint and evolutionary roadmap that defines and communicates
- the strategic direction for these architectures in support of business and technical strategies.
- Explains how the roadmap maintains and delivers cost effectiveness, business value, and competitiveness.
- Estimates effort and cost for small to large initiatives.
- Creates MCP tools and AI agents for Agentic ecosystem using Node/Python.
- Build API gateway and AI gateway.
- Build AI based systems such as chatbots & workflow automations.
- Identifies opportunities to leverage AI efficiently and securely and improve team productivity.
- Creates End to End solution architecture for small to large initiatives by collaborating with all necessary teams.
Minimum Requirements:Requires an BA/BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field of study and a minimum of 7 years related experience; multi platform, and multi-dimensional experience required, as well as experience with business and technical applications; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.
Preferred Skills, Capabilities, and Experiences:- Experience mentoring others and providing troubleshooting support is strongly preferred.
- Multi database and/or multi language strongly preferred.
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect is preferred
Ability to produce physical architecture diagrams and recommend feasible improvements preferred. - Ability to work with dev team to come up to have a good backlog of tech debt features to improve application preferred.
Job Level:Non-Management Exempt
Workshift:Job Family:IFT > Engineering/Dev
Please be advised that Elevance Health only accepts resumes for compensation from agencies that have a signed agreement with Elevance Health. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Elevance Health.
Who We AreElevance Health is a health company dedicated to improving lives and communities - and making healthcare simpler. We are a Fortune 25 company with a longstanding history in the healthcare industry, looking for leaders at all levels of the organization who are passionate about making an impact on our members and the communities we serve.
How We WorkAt Elevance Health, we are creating a culture that is designed to advance our strategy but will also lead to personal and professional growth for our associates. Our values and behaviors are the root of our culture. They are how we achieve our strategy, power our business outcomes and drive our shared success - for our consumers, our associates, our communities and our business.
We offer a range of market-competitive total rewards that include merit increases, paid holidays, Paid Time Off, and incentive bonus programs (unless covered by a collective bargaining agreement), medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) +match, stock purchase plan, life insurance, wellness programs and financial education resources, to name a few.
Elevance Health operates in a Hybrid Workforce Strategy. Unless specified as primarily virtual by the hiring manager, associates are required to work at an Elevance Health location at least once per week, and potentially several times per week. Specific requirements and expectations for time onsite will be discussed as part of the hiring process.
The health of our associates and communities is a top priority for Elevance Health. We require all new candidates in certain patient/member-facing roles to become vaccinated against COVID-19 and Influenza. If you are not vaccinated, your offer will be rescinded unless you provide an acceptable explanation. Elevance Health will also follow all relevant federal, state and local laws.
Elevance Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, citizenship status, color, creed, disability, ethnicity, genetic information, gender (including gender identity and gender expression), marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status or any other status or condition protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process should submit the following form: Accessibility Accommodation Request Form and a member of the team will be in contact. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws, including, but not limited to, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act.
Prospective employees required to be screened under Florida law should review the education and awareness resources at HB531 | Florida Agency for Health Care Administration.
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