Distinguished Engineer

Elevance Health

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Hybrid
Location
Atlanta, GAIndianapolis, INMason, OH
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Full-time
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30 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 14 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $230,560–$381,666 across 6 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Distinguished Engineer

The Distinguished Engineer leads the design, development, and deployment of large-scale, production-grade artificial intelligence systems and platforms to drive enterprise-wide innovation. This role involves architecting scalable solutions using agentic systems, large language models, distributed systems, and event-driven architectures while modernizing legacy systems through automated code transformation. The individual will establish technical standards for governance, monitoring, and responsible AI while mentoring engineering teams and defining architecture patterns. Key technologies include Python, Java, microservices, and CI/CD pipelines. The role specifically addresses complex problems within the healthcare domain, including medical cost management, payment integrity, and clinical operations. Candidates must navigate specialized data environments involving FHIR/HL7 interoperability, retrieval-augmented generation, knowledge graphs, and vector databases to build robust AI-enabled products that solve critical business challenges in a regulated environment.

What does a Engineer earn?

Median $185000 from 250 postings across 57 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Architect and deliver scalable AI solutions using LLMs, agentic systems, and distributed architectures.
  • Define enterprise-wide technical directions including architecture patterns, integration standards, and reusable platform capabilities.
  • Lead the modernization of legacy systems through automated code transformation and service decomposition.
  • Design and implement AI-enabled software development lifecycle practices to improve engineering velocity.
  • Establish governance frameworks and best practices for monitoring, evaluation, and responsible AI.
  • Develop enterprise AI platforms featuring gateways, vector databases, and semantic models.
  • Translate business strategies into scalable AI-enabled products and capabilities for healthcare domains.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship while influencing high-level enterprise technology decisions.

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 including distributed systems and large-scale architectures.
  • Experience developing software using Python, Java, or comparable object-oriented programming languages.
  • Experience designing and implementing APIs, microservices, event-driven architectures, and applying cloud, CI/CD, and DevOps practices.
  • Experience delivering enterprise AI solutions in healthcare domains (preferred).
  • Deep expertise in agentic AI, LLMs, RAG, knowledge graphs, and other advanced AI technologies (preferred).
  • Experience defining enterprise data strategies and modern data architectures (preferred).
  • Experience building enterprise AI platforms including gateways, vector databases, and governance frameworks (preferred).

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