Engineer Lead Senior

Elevance Health (Anthem); Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 151,000 - 271,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

comprehensive benefits package

incentive and recognition programs

equity stock purchase

401k contribution

Job summary

Elevance Health is seeking an Engineer Lead Senior to drive key web and data initiatives in a hybrid in-office/work-from-home setup. The role demands leadership, deep technical expertise, and collaboration with business and technology teams.

Salary ranges from $150,640 to $271,152, reflecting location and experience. The position emphasizes architecture, on-call coordination, and end-to-end delivery of technology solutions within healthcare contexts.

Qualifications

• Requires BA/BS in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field and 9+ years of experience.
• Master's degree is preferred.
• Hands-on AI experience is strongly preferred.
• Experience mentoring others and driving large projects is preferred.
• Multi-database and multi-language experience is preferred.
• Java-based web applications experience; healthcare experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Maintains active relationships with customers to determine business requirements and leads requirements gathering meetings.
• Leads efforts with web and marketing teams to increase the presence of web products.
• Anticipates broad technical changes and keeps company tech ahead of the curve.
• Prioritizes projects and makes trade-offs for enterprise system changes.
• Understands architecture for major parts of the business and communicates scaling/reliability limits.
• Owns change request process and coordinates with other teams as needed.
• Develops and owns list of final enhancements and defines application scope/objectives.
• Performs technical design reviews and code reviews.
• Ensures unit tests and system testing are completed and implemented as planned.
• Delivers application technology solutions and data planning.
• Contributes to multi-year technology strategy for critical areas.

Skills

AI experience

Mentoring teams

Project leadership

Client requirements

Java web applications

Healthcare domain knowledge

Education

BA/BS in Information Technology or Computer Science

Master's degree (preferred)

Tools

AWS

Job description

Engineer Lead Senior

Anticipated End Date: 2026-08-28

Job Description: Engineer Lead Senior

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.

How you will make an impact

• Maintains active relationships with customers to determine business requirements, leads requirements gathering meetings and reviews designs with the business.
• Leads efforts with Web and marketing team to increase the presence of web products.
• Anticipates broad technical change and ensures that company technology stays ahead of the curve.
• Prioritize projects and make trade-offs with respect to the enterprise systems changes based on broader business needs.
• 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 an BA/BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field of study a minimum of 9 years' experience; multi-dimensional platform experience, expert level experience with business and technical applications; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.

Preferred Skills, Capabilities and Experiences

• Master's degree preferred.
• Hands on AI experience strongly preferred.
• Experience mentoring others drive teams to achieve results, lead multiple or large projects and provide troubleshooting supports strongly preferred.
• Multi database and/or multi language strongly preferred.
• Java based web applications experience strongly preferred; mobile app experience is nice to have.
• Cloud platform experience preferred; AWS experience strongly preferred.
• Healthcare experience preferred.

For candidates working in person or virtually in the below location(s), the salary* range for this specific position is $150,640 to $271,152.

Locations: California; Virginia

In addition to your salary, Elevance Health offers benefits such as a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements).

• comprehensive benefits package
• incentive and recognition programs
• equity stock purchase
• 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements)

The salary offered for this specific position is based on a number of legitimate, non-discriminatory factors set by the Company.

The Company is fully committed to ensuring equal pay opportunities for equal work regardless of gender, race, or any other category protected by federal, state, and local pay equity laws .

*The salary range is the range Elevance Health in good faith believes is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future and actual compensation may vary from posting based on geographic location, work experience, education and/or skill level. Even within the range, the actual compensation will vary depending on the above factors as well as market/business considerations. No amount is considered to be w