Distinguished Engineer

The Elevance Health Companies, Inc.; Mason (OH); Hybrid; USD 230,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Merit increases

Paid holidays

Paid Time Off

Incentive bonus programs

Medical

Dental

Vision

Short and long term disability

Job summary

The Elevance Health Companies, Inc. is seeking a Distinguished Engineer in a hybrid role focused on leading the design, development, and deployment of large-scale, production-grade AI systems across the enterprise.

The role guides technical direction and drives modernization using agentic systems, LLMs, and event-driven architectures. You will mentor engineers, define architecture standards, and partner with teams to accelerate AI-enabled development while ensuring governance and responsible AI

Qualifications

• Requires a bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field and a minimum of 15 years in software engineering, including leadership of distributed systems and large-scale architectures.
• Experience designing, developing, and maintaining software solutions using Python, Java, or comparable OO languages, APIs, microservices, event-driven architectures, cloud, CI/CD and DevOps practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, and deployment of large-scale, production-grade AI systems and platforms for enterprise-wide innovation.
• Architect and deliver scalable, resilient AI solutions using agentic systems, LLMs, distributed systems, and event-driven architectures.
• Define enterprise-wide technical direction, architecture patterns, integration standards, and reusable platform capabilities.
• Lead AI-driven modernization of legacy systems through automated code transformation, service decomposition, and continuous optimization.
• Design and implement AI-enabled SDLC practices to improve engineering velocity and quality.
• Establish standards, governance, and best practices for AI systems including monitoring and responsible AI.
• Partner with engineering teams to enable AI-assisted development and drive improvements.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship while influencing enterprise technology decisions.

Skills

Distributed systems

APIs

Microservices

DevOps

Python

Java

Cloud

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Job description

Position Title

Distinguished Engineer

Anticipated End Date

2026-11-30

Please note: This position is not eligible for current or future visa sponsorship.

Hybrid: This role requires associates to be in-office 3 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 Distinguished Engineer is responsible for leading the design, development, and deployment of large-scale, production-grade artificial intelligence (AI) systems and platforms that enable enterprise-wide innovation and modernization.

How you will make an impact

• Architect and deliver scalable, resilient AI solutions leveraging technologies such as agentic systems, large language models (LLMs), distributed systems, and event-driven architectures.
• Define enterprise-wide technical direction, including architecture patterns, integration standards, and reusable platform capabilities.
• Lead AI-driven modernization of legacy systems through automated code transformation, service decomposition, and continuous optimization.
• Design and implement AI-enabled software development lifecycle (SDLC) practices to improve engineering velocity and quality.
• Establish technical standards, governance frameworks, and best practices for AI systems, including monitoring, evaluation, and responsible AI.
• Partner with engineering teams and stakeholders to enable adoption of AI-assisted development and drive continuous improvement in system performance and productivity.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship while influencing enterprise technology decisions through deep expertise and hands‑on engineering.

Minimum Requirements

• Requires a bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field and a minimum of 15 years of experience in software engineering, including experience leading, designing, implementing, and operating distributed systems and large-scale architectures, or any combination of education and experience which would provide an equivalent background.
• Experience designing, developing, and maintaining software solutions using Python, Java, or comparable object-oriented programming languages also required, as well as experience designing and implementing APIs, microservices, and event-driven architectures, and applying cloud, CI/CD, and DevOps practices.

Preferred Skills, Capabilities, and Experiences

For this role, we’re seeking a distinguished technical leader who combines enterprise-level strategic thinking, deep business understanding, and exceptional hands‑on software engineering capabilities.

The ideal candidate must demonstrate a proven track record of personally designing, building, and delivering production‑grade solutions while influencing enterprise technology strategy, developing technical talent, and driving measurable business outcomes.

AI Expertise and Strategic Thinking

• Deep understanding of AI, generative AI, agentic systems, LLMs, intelligent automation, and modern data architectures.
• Experience designing and operating large-scale agentic or autonomous systems in production.
• Expertise with:
  • Agent frameworks (LangChain, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, etc.)
  • Vector databases and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
  • LLMOps, evaluation, and monitoring frameworks
  • Experience with multi-agent coordination, planning, and memory architecture.

Enterprise Data Architecture and Strategy

• Deep expertise in cloud-native enterprise data platforms, lakehouse and analytical architectures, governed data products, data integration, interoperability, metadata management, data quality, lineage, and secure access across complex domains.

Semantic, Context, and Knowledge Architecture

• Hands‑on experience designing semantic and context layers, business vocabularies and metrics, ontologies, knowledge graphs, entity relationships and resolution, and reusable knowledge representations that connect enterprise data to AI.
• Familiarity with RDF/OWL, SPARQL, SHACL, graph databases, and semantic modeling is highly valued.

AI on Enterprise Data and Conversational Analytics

• Experience implementing trustworthy natural‑language analytics, text-to-SQL with governed semantic definitions, RAG/GraphRAG, semantic retrieval, context engineering, and AI agents that query, reason over, and act on enterprise data.
• Demonstrated attention to provenance, authorization, evaluation, explainability, and numerical accuracy.

Healthcare Data and Decision Intelligence

• Ability to apply enterprise data, semantics, analytics, ML, and AI to provider data and analytics, utilization management, prior authorization, clinical interoperability (FHIR/HL7), medical cost management, shift‑left payment integrity, value-based care, employer analytics, claims, and care management.
• Experience connecting clinical, member, provider, benefit, contract, and policy data is especially valuable.

Job Level: Non-Management Exempt.

Job Family: IFT > IT Architecture.

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 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.

Benefits

• Merit increases
• Paid holidays
• Paid Time Off
• 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
• Financial education resources

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-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.

NOTE: Workday keeps job postings active through 11:59:59 PM on the day before the listed end date. Example: If the end date is 3/13, the posting will automatically come down on 3/12 at 11:59:59 PM. In other words - the job is posted until 3/13, not through 3/13.

Elevance Health is a health company dedicated to improving lives and communities - and making healthcare simpler.

Previously known as Anthem, Inc., we have evolved into a company focused on whole health and updated our name to better reflect the direction the company is heading.

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Fueled by our bold purpose to improve the health of humanity, we are transforming from a traditional health benefits organization into a lifetime trusted health partner.

Our nearly 100,000 associates serve approximately 100M+ people, at every stage of health.

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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Elevance Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veterans.