Engineering Tech Lead Senior

Elevance Health; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Elevance Health seeks an Engineering Tech Lead Senior to own end-to-end development of enterprise platforms. You will drive design, development, and integration of backend services with modern UI, while guiding technical direction and change management.

The role emphasizes collaboration with stakeholders, architectural oversight, and delivering scalable, secure solutions in a hybrid in-office setting.

Qualifications

• Requires a BA/BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field with a minimum of 9 years experience.
• Multi dimensional platform experience and expert level experience with business and technical applications.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end application system development and maintenance on large enterprise platforms.
• Develop, enhance, and maintain enterprise applications using Java, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, REST APIs, Microservices.
• Implement ORM/JPA/Hibernate models and integrate with relational or NoSQL databases.
• Build, optimize, and troubleshoot microservices including inter-service communication and API orchestration.
• Participate in converting monolithic applications to microservices-based architectures.
• Build responsive and high-performance UI components using JavaScript / TypeScript with Angular or React.
• Integrate UI with backend services, ensuring security, usability, and reliability.
• Owns the change request process and coordinates with other teams as necessary.
• Reviews and monitors initiatives for end to end impact and coordination.
• Leads the conversations about the direction of major technology areas and drives consensus.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

REST

Microservices

JPA/Hibernate

Angular/React

TypeScript

Git

CI/CD

DevOps

AI/ML integration

Model inference pipelines

Education

BA/BS in IT or CS

Tools

Git

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

PLEASE NOTE: This position is not eligible for current or future visa sponsorship.

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.

Engineering Tech Lead Senior

is responsible for leading the end to end application system development and maintenance on large complex enterprise wide technology platforms.

How You Will Make An Impact

• Develop, enhance, and maintain enterprise applications using Java, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, REST APIs, Microservices.
• Implement ORM/JPA/Hibernate models and integrate with relational or NoSQL databases.
• Build, optimize, and troubleshoot microservices including inter-service communication and API orchestration.
• Participate in converting monolithic applications to microservices-based architectures.
• Build responsive and high-performance UI components using JavaScript / TypeScript with Angular or React.
• Integrate UI with backend services, ensuring security, usability, and reliability.
• 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.
• 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

• 8 to 10 years of hands‑on development experience in software engineering, including hands‑on design, development, architecture, and technical leadership strongly preferred.
• Strong expertise in Java, Spring Boot, REST, Microservices, JPA/Hibernate, ORM frameworks, and frontend development using Angular/React with TypeScript, along with hands‑on experience in Git, CI/CD pipelines, and core DevOps practices preferred.
• Practical exposure in integrating AI/ML components into enterprise solutions (e.g., predictive models, automation tools, generative AI integration) preferred.
• Experience evaluating AI frameworks and implementing: Model inference pipelines, Embedding AI into microservices, Using vector stores, APIs, or cloud AI services strongly preferred.

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.