Principal Engineer - FDE

Elevance Health (Anthem); Mason (OH); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Elevance Health seeks a Principal Engineer - FDE to collaborate with business and technology stakeholders on end-to-end application technology products and platforms. You will shape architecture, set standards, and ensure delivery aligns with enterprise objectives in a hybrid in-office/remote environment in Ohio.

The role demands deep technical leadership across AI, APIs, data, cloud, and legacy systems, with a focus on scalability, security, and compliance in a complex enterprise setting.

Qualifications

• Requires a BA/BS in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field with 11+ years experience; or equivalent.
• Experience mentoring, leading teams, and delivering complex technical projects.

Responsibilities

• Establish and evolve applications architecture vision for multi-product environment.
• Define business requirements with stakeholders.
• Oversee technical and functional specifications and design reviews.
• Ensure architecture standards, frameworks, and reference models are followed.
• Collaborate with IT to drive architecture strategy and vision.

Skills

Mentoring

Team leadership

Project leadership

Troubleshooting

Multi-database

Multi-language

AI awareness

Security & compliance

Education

BA/BS in IT or CS

Tools

APIs

Cloud platforms

Data platforms

Job description

Anticipated End Date:
2026-09-30

Position Title:
Principal Engineer - FDE

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 Principal Engineer - FDE works with the business and technology stakeholder's on the development and delivery of end to end application technology products and services for enterprise wide technology application platforms that are aligned to the organizations strategic objectives and initiatives.

How you will make an impact

• Works with stakeholders to establish the overall applications architecture vision and ensures specific components are appropriately designed and leveraged in a multi-product environment.
• Recommends new technology solutions and products are delivered to stakeholders and align with enterprise strategic objectives.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and technology to define business requirements.
• Oversee the development and delivery of technical and/or functional specifications.
• Oversee the technical design reviews and testing to architectural technologies for application solutions and products meet business requirements.
• Leading and define the overall application system technology and architecture, development.
• Assesses the compatibility and integration of solutions and products.
• Works with IT to lead IT Business Transformation application architecture strategy and vision.
• Provides continuous consulting services and direction on projects.
• Champions and responsible for architectural standards, guidelines, principles, frameworks, and reference models.
• Collaborate with all stakeholders to define architectures for new strategic initiatives as well.

Minimum Requirements

• Requires a BA/BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field of study, and a minimum of 11 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 complex technical projects, and providing troubleshooting support.
• Multi database and/or multi language.
• Experience owning the end-to-end technical mission-translating an ambiguous business problem into a working production solution, from architecture and rapid prototyping through integration, testing, deployment, and stabilization.
• Hands-on technical leader-designing and building across AI, applications, APIs, data, cloud, and legacy platforms while guiding other FDEs and federated engineering partners.
• Experience engineering trust and production readiness from day one-embedding security, privacy, compliance, evaluations, observability, human oversight, and reliability into the solution rather than treating them as late-stage approvals.
• Experience turning field delivery into reusable enterprise capability-converting mission learnings into reusable components, integration patterns, evaluation packs, development standards, and platform backlog enhancements that make subsequent missions faster and less expensive.

Job Level: Non-Management Exempt

Workshift:

Job Family: IFT > Engineering/Dev

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