Distinguished Engineer

Elevance Health

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Location
Atlanta, GAMason, OH
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3 days ago
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About Elevance Health

Elevance Health (formerly Anthem, Inc.) is a leading American managed healthcare company and the largest for-profit entity in the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, serving approximately 115 million people through health plans and Carelon services.

Elevance Health currently has 11 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $236,396–$339,618 across 6 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Distinguished Engineer

As a Distinguished Engineer within the IT Architecture team, you will drive the definition, standardization, and alignment of application architecture across horizontal capabilities and various lines of business. You will be responsible for ensuring interoperability with enterprise strategy while leading cross-functional forums to resolve design conflicts and promote the reuse of common capabilities. Your daily work involves defining technical directions, including integration standards and reusable platform capabilities, while leading AI-driven modernization of legacy systems through automated code transformation and service decomposition. You will implement AI-enabled software development lifecycle practices and establish governance frameworks for responsible AI. The role requires expertise in Python, Java, or similar object-oriented languages, along with experience in APIs, microservices, event-driven architectures, cloud technologies, CI/CD, and DevOps practices to solve complex architectural challenges and improve engineering velocity across the enterprise.

What does a Engineer earn?

Median $185000 from 256 postings across 54 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Define enterprise-wide technical direction including architecture patterns, integration standards, and reusable platform capabilities.
  • Lead the AI-driven modernization of legacy systems through automated code transformation and service decomposition.
  • Design and implement AI-enabled software development lifecycle practices to improve engineering velocity and quality.
  • Establish technical standards, governance frameworks, and best practices for monitoring and responsible AI systems.
  • Drive the standardization and alignment of application architecture across horizontal capabilities and business lines.
  • Lead cross-functional architecture forums to resolve design conflicts and promote the reuse of common capabilities.
  • Influence enterprise technology decisions through deep expertise and hands-on engineering leadership.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
  • Minimum of 15 years of experience in software engineering.
  • Experience leading, designing, implementing, and operating distributed systems and large-scale architectures.
  • Experience developing software solutions using Python, Java, or comparable object-oriented programming languages.
  • Experience designing and implementing APIs, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
  • Experience applying cloud, CI/CD, and DevOps practices.
  • Advanced experience establishing enterprise technology standards and influencing technical direction across multiple teams (preferred).
  • Experience serving as a technical authority for software engineering practices, architecture, platform strategy, and modern application architectures (preferred).

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