Lead Engineer

Elevance Health (Anthem); Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Elevance Health (Anthem) is seeking a Lead Engineer to own end-to-end delivery on medium enterprise-wide technology platforms and drive architecture decisions.

You will balance in-office collaboration with flexible work, lead multi-team design reviews, and architect scalable, secure solutions for business-critical systems. Strong communication with customers and stakeholders is essential.

Qualifications

• BA/BS in IT, CS, or related field with 7+ years experience.
• Experience with multi-platform and multi-dimensional systems.
• Experience with business and technical applications.

Responsibilities

• Maintains relationships with customers to determine business requirements.
• Leads requirements gathering meetings with stakeholders.
• Leads efforts with Web and marketing teams to increase web presence.
• Owns the change request process and coordinates with other teams.
• Develops and defines application scope and objectives.
• Performs technical design and code reviews.
• Coordinates on-call support and system monitoring.

Skills

Requirements gathering

System architecture

JAD sessions

Vendor evaluation

DevOps

API design

Education

BA/BS in Information Technology or Computer Science

7+ years related experience

AWS Certified Solutions Architect (preferred)

Tools

AWS

Job description

Lead Engineer

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 Lead Engineer is responsible for full delivery of end-to-end system development and maintenance on medium Enterprise-wide technology platforms, and delivery of application technology solutions and data information planning effort.

How you will make an impact:

• Maintains active relationships with customers to determine business requirements and leads requirements gathering meetings.


• Leads efforts with Web and marketing team to increase the presence of web products.


• May implement improvements in stability, performance, and scalability across major business-critical systems.


• May implement process to reduce barriers and roadblocks in projects, services, and processes in order to operate more efficiently.


• 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. Coordinates and manages on-call support and owns the system monitoring process.


• Owns the technical development environment and works on the Enterprise team. Leads multiple or large projects and facilitates large group JAD sessions for requirements, modeling in several disciplines.


• Leads vendor evaluation and analysis.


• Creates architectural solutions that articulate the business context, conceptual design, and component-level logical design.


• Recommends new technologies based upon business value drivers and return on investment


• Drives new technologies towards implementation and exploitation


• Works on infrastructure improvements for the application along with devops & development teams


• Works with product owners, performance testing team and dev leads to improve application performance and improve security


• Establishes overall systems architecture vision and ensures specific components are appropriately designed and leveraged


• Contributes to the holistic vision of Enterprise Architecture.


• Defines architecture standards and anticipate areas where architecture standards may need to be developed that are in-line with customer, IT and industry standards.


• Directs the construction of architecture components (e.g., data architecture, application architecture, technical architecture).


• Works with business units to translate business strategy into discrete requirements compatible with current technical architectures.


• Defines systems, technical, and application architectures for new strategic initiatives;


• Develops and maintains an architectural blueprint and evolutionary roadmap that defines and communicates


• Explains how the roadmap maintains and delivers cost effectiveness, business value, and competitiveness.


• Estimates effort and cost for small to large initiatives.


• Creates MCP tools and AI agents for Agentic ecosystem using Node/Python.


• Build API gateway and AI gateway.


• Build AI based systems such as chatbots & workflow automations.


• Identifies opportunities to leverage AI efficiently and securely and improve team productivity.


• Creates End to End solution architecture for small to large initiatives by collaborating with all necessary teams.

Minimum Requirements:

Requires an BA/BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field of study and a minimum of 7 years related experience; multi platform, and multi-dimensional experience required, as well as experience with business and technical applications; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.

Preferred Skills, Capabilities, and Experiences:

Experience mentoring others and providing troubleshooting support is strongly preferred.

Multi database and/or multi language strongly preferred.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect is preferred

Ability to produce physical architecture diagrams and recom