Principal FDE Engineer - Hybrid Architect

Elevance Health; Indianapolis (IN); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Elevance Health is seeking a Principal Engineer - FDE to drive end-to-end application technology products and services for enterprise platforms. The role collaborates with business and technology stakeholders to define architecture and oversee design, development, testing, and deployment to meet strategic objectives.

The candidate will lead modernization efforts across AI, APIs, data, cloud, and legacy systems, ensuring security, reliability, and production readiness from day one.

Qualifications

• BA/BS in IT, CS or related field with 11+ years experience.
• Experience translating ambiguous business problems into production solutions.
• Hands-on leader across AI, applications, APIs, data, cloud, and legacy platforms.

Responsibilities

• Works with stakeholders to establish the overall applications architecture vision.
• Recommends new technology solutions aligned with enterprise objectives.
• Collaborate to define business requirements and oversee technical specs.
• Oversee design reviews and testing for architectural technologies.
• Lead overall application system technology and architecture development.
• Assess compatibility and integration of solutions and products.
• Partner with IT to lead architecture strategy and vision.
• Provide ongoing consulting on projects.
• Champion architectural standards, guidelines and reference models.
• Collaborate to define architectures for new strategic initiatives.

Skills

Mentoring

Team leadership

Project management

Multi database

Multi language

End-to-end architecture

Security & compliance

Production readiness

Reusable components

Education

BA/BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field

Job description

Elevance Health is seeking a Principal Engineer - FDE to drive end-to-end application technology products and services for enterprise platforms. The role collaborates with business and technology stakeholders to define architecture and oversee design, development, testing, and deployment to meet strategic objectives.

The candidate will lead modernization efforts across AI, APIs, data, cloud, and legacy systems, ensuring security, reliability, and production readiness from day one.