AI Adoption Architect for Enterprise Solutions

Elevance Health; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 255,000 - 382,000; Full time

Job summary

Elevance Health is seeking a Distinguished Engineer - AI Adoption to accelerate enterprise AI adoption. You will lead cross‑functional efforts, evaluate technologies, and build reusable frameworks and prototypes to enable business units to apply AI safely and effectively.

The role requires in-depth technical leadership across cloud platforms, APIs, microservices, and modern DevOps practices, with a focus on responsible AI and scalable patterns.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field with 15+ years in software engineering.
• Experience leading, designing, implementing, and operating distributed systems and large-scale architectures.
• Experience designing and maintaining software solutions using Python, Java, or comparable OO languages.
• Experience designing and implementing APIs, microservices, and event-driven architectures, and applying cloud, CI/CD, and DevOps practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise AI adoption by partnering with business units, engineering teams, product leaders, architecture, security, legal, compliance, and procurement to identify, evaluate, and implement practical AI solutions.
• Translate business problems into AI-enabled solution designs, including agentic workflows, LLM applications, retrieval-augmented generation, automation, decision support, and AI-assisted engineering capabilities.
• Evaluate AI vendors, platforms, foundation models, agentic tools, and orchestration frameworks through hands-on testing, proofs of concepts, benchmarks, and assessments.
• Define enterprise-wide AI adoption patterns, including vendor integration standards, API patterns, model selection guidance, data access approaches, observability, guardrails, and deployment models.
• Provide hands-on engineering leadership in building and testing AI solutions across cloud platforms, enterprise systems, APIs, microservices, event-driven architectures, and DevOps environments.

Skills

AI adoption

Leadership

Vendor assessment

Prototyping

Technical architecture

Cloud

DevOps

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS/Engineering

Tools

Python

Java

APIs

Microservices

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Job description

Elevance Health is seeking a Distinguished Engineer - AI Adoption to accelerate enterprise AI adoption. You will lead cross‑functional efforts, evaluate technologies, and build reusable frameworks and prototypes to enable business units to apply AI safely and effectively.

The role requires in-depth technical leadership across cloud platforms, APIs, microservices, and modern DevOps practices, with a focus on responsible AI and scalable patterns.