AI Solutions Engineer Lead

Elevance Health; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Elevance Health seeks an AI Solutions Engineer Lead to drive end‑to‑end AI-enabled system development for large enterprise platforms. You will lead architectural decisions, guide the integration of AI agents and code assistants, and mentor engineering teams across the SDLC.

The role emphasizes hands‑on engineering, setting best practices, and ensuring secure, compliant delivery. This position requires a strong background in cloud‑native development and cross‑functional collaboration in a hybrid

Qualifications

• Requires a BA/BS in IT or CS with 9+ years of experience.
• Proven leadership in AI/ML projects across the SDLC.
• Experience mentoring teams and leading large projects.
• Strong knowledge of privacy, security, and regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and architecture of AI-enabled solutions across enterprise platforms.
• Drive adoption of AI capabilities and establish best practices.
• Mentor teams and scale AI-enabled engineering across portfolios.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define technical direction and roadmaps.
• Oversee change management, testing, and deployment of AI systems.
• Ensure secure SDLC and adherence to compliance standards.

Skills

AI Leadership

Team Mentoring

Communication

Cloud-Native Dev

CI/CD

Security & Compliance

Education

BA/BS in IT or CS

Tools

GitHub Copilot

Cursor

Claude Code

ChatGPT

Codex-style agents

JIRA

Job description

Location: 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 AI Solutions Engineer Lead(Engineer Lead Senior) is responsible for leading the end to end application system development and maintenance on large complex enterprise wide technology platforms. This role requires a strong hands‑on engineer with deep experience building AI‑enabled systems and using AI agents and coding assistants across the SDLC (planning, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support). The ideal candidate will drive adoption of AI capabilities across the portfolio, establish best practices, and mentor teams to scale AI‑enabled engineering.

How You Will Make An Impact

Primary duties may include, but are not limited to:

• Lead development and architecture of agentic AI solutions, including orchestration, tool integration, and reusable enterprise patterns.
• Daily or weekly use of AI coding tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Codex‑style agents, or similar.
• Define and implement model evaluation frameworks (quality, accuracy, safety, and performance metrics) and guide teams on continuous improvement.
• Demonstrates knowledge of industry trends, responsible AI, data privacy, and secure handling of sensitive information.
• Improve AI output quality through prompt optimization and model tuning.
• Maintains active relationships with customers to determine business requirements, leads requirements gathering meetings and reviews designs with the business.
• Anticipates broad technical change and ensures that company technology stays ahead of the curve.
• Understands the entire architecture for a major part of our business and is able to articulate the scaling and reliability limits.
• 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.
• May participates in developing the multi-year technology strategy for critical areas of the business that may encompass multiple systems.
• Partners with technical and non technical stakeholder to identify the long term technical trajectory of the technology infrastructure.
• Creates architecture and anticipates future technology needs.
• Leads the conversations internally about the direction of major areas of the technology, drives wide‑team consensus to the adoption of this direction, and uses this direction when engaging engineers.
• Coordinates and manages on‑call support and owns the system monitoring process.
• Reviews and monitors initiatives for end to end impact and coordination.
• Participates in review and decision making for enterprise solutions.

Minimum Requirements

Requires a BA/BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field of study, and a minimum of 9 years experience; experience with multi dimensional platforms, and business and technical applications required; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.

Preferred Skills, Capabilities, And Experiences

• Experience mentoring others, driving teams to achieve results, leading multiple and/or large projects, and provide troubleshooting support strongly preferred.
• Multi database and/or multi language strongly preferred.
• Experience with US healthcare, payer, claims, clinical, HIPAA, PHI, regulated industry, or enterprise security experience.
• Project leadership experience including Agile project management, Scaled Agile Frameworks (SAFE).
• Knowledge of Agile/SAFe delivery and portfolio management tools.
• Strong communication skills and ability to explain AI concepts to non‑technical audiences.
• Experience integrating AI into tools such as JIRA or similar delivery platforms.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals including, cloud‑native development, APIs and microservices, CI/CD, automated testing, and secure SDLC strongly preferred.
• Experience building or integrating AI agents, tool/function calling, RAG, memory, model routing, evaluations, guardrails, observability, and secure API/tool access strongly preferred.
• Experience building LLM or SLM applications.
• Ability to review, test, and harden AI‑generated code.

Who We Are

Elevance 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 Work

At 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 may contact [e-mail] for assistance.

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.