Distinguished Engineer

Elevance Health is hiring a Distinguished Engineer to lead the design, development, and modernization of enterprise workflow experiences. The role provides hands-on technical leadership for scalable AI solutions, enterprise architecture, legacy modernization, and AI-enabled engineering practices.

Responsibilities:

• Will partner closely with product, design, business units, platform teams, and enterprise architecture to simplify complex processes, improve user experience, and deliver modern workflow-enabled products
• Architect and deliver scalable, resilient AI solutions leveraging technologies such as agentic systems, large language models (LLMs), distributed systems, and event-driven architectures
• Define enterprise-wide technical direction, including architecture patterns, integration standards, and reusable platform capabilities
• Lead AI-driven modernization of legacy systems through automated code transformation, service decomposition, and continuous optimization
• Design and implement AI-enabled software development lifecycle (SDLC) practices to improve engineering velocity and quality
• Establish technical standards, governance frameworks, and best practices for AI systems, including monitoring, evaluation, and responsible AI
• Collaborate with UX, product management, engineering, operations, architecture, security, compliance, and business stakeholders to deliver reliable, secure, and maintainable product experiences
• Partner with engineering teams and stakeholders to enable adoption of AI-assisted development and drive continuous improvement in system performance and productivity
• Lead modernization of legacy workflow tools, forms, portals, manual processes, and fragmented user experiences into streamlined digital products
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship while influencing enterprise technology decisions through deep expertise and hands-on engineering options, and strategic recommendations for AI investments