Distinguished Engineer

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Distinguished Engineer

Please note: This position is not eligible for current or future visa sponsorship

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 Distinguished Engineer is responsible for leading the design, development, and deployment of large-scale, production-grade artificial intelligence (AI) systems and platforms that enable enterprise-wide innovation and modernization.

How you will make an impact:

• 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.
• Partner with engineering teams and stakeholders to enable adoption of AI-assisted development and drive continuous improvement in system performance and productivity.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship while influencing enterprise technology decisions through deep expertise and hands-on engineering.

Minimum Requirements:

• Requires a bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field and a minimum of 15 years of experience in software engineering, including experience leading, designing, implementing, and operating distributed systems and large-scale architectures, or any combination of education and experience which would provide an equivalent background.
• Experience designing, developing, and maintaining software solutions using Python, Java, or comparable object-oriented programming languages also required, as well as experience designing and implementing APIs, microservices, and event-driven architectures, and applying cloud, CI/CD, and DevOps practices.

Preferred Skills, Capabilities, and Experiences:

For this role, we’re seeking a distinguished technical leader who combines enterprise-level strategic thinking, deep business understanding, and exceptional hands-on software engineering capabilities. The ideal candidate must demonstrate a proven track record of personally designing, building, and delivering production-grade solutions while influencing enterprise technology strategy, developing technical talent, and driving measurable business outcomes.

• AI Expertise and Strategic Thinking: Deep understanding of AI, generative AI, agentic systems, LLMs, intelligent automation, and modern data architectures. Experience designing and operating large-scale agentic or autonomous systems in production. Expertise with:

Agent frameworks (LangChain, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, etc.)

Vector databases and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)

LLMOps, evaluation, and monitoring frameworks

• Experience with multi-agent coordination, planning, and memory architecture.
• Enterprise Data Architecture and Strategy: Deep expertise in cloud-native enterprise data platforms, lakehouse and analytical architectures, governed data products, data integration, interoperability, metadata management, data quality, lineage, and secure access across complex domains.
• Semantic, Context, and Knowledge Architecture: Hands-on experience designing semantic and context layers, business vocabularies and metrics, ontologies, knowledge graphs, entity relationships and resolution, and reusable knowledge representations that connect enterprise data to AI. Familiarity with RDF/OWL, SPARQL, SHACL, graph databases, and semantic modeling is highly valued.
• AI on Enterprise Data and Conversational Analytics: Experience implementing trustworthy natural-language analytics, text-to-SQL with governed semantic definitions, RAG/GraphRAG, semantic retrieval, context engineering, and AI agents that query, reason over, and act on enterprise data. Demonstrated attention to provenance, authorization, evaluation, explainability, and numerical accuracy.
• Healthcare Data and Decision Intelligence: Ability to apply enterprise data, semantics, analytics, ML, and AI to provider data and analytics, utilization management, prior authorization, clinical interoperability (FHIR/HL7), medical cost management, shift-left payment integrity, value-based care, employer analytics, claims, and care management. Experience connecting clinical, member, provider, benefit, contract, and policy data is especially valuable.

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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 incentive bonus programs (unless covered by a collective bargaining agreement), medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) +match, stock purchase plan, life insurance, wellness programs and financial education resources, to name a few.

Elevance Health operates in a Hybrid Workforce Strategy. Unless specified as primarily virtual by the hiring manager, associates are required to work at an Elevance Health location at least once per week, and potentially several times per week. Specific requirements and expectations for time onsite will be discussed as part of the hiring process.

The health of our associates and communities is a top priority for Elevance Health. We require all new candidates in certain patient/member-facing roles to become vaccinated against COVID-19 and Influenza. If you are not vaccinated, your offer will be rescinded unless you provide an acceptable explanation. Elevance Health will also follow all relevant federal, state and local laws.

Elevance Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, citizenship status, color, creed, disability, ethnicity, genetic information, gender (including gender identity and gender expression), marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status or any other status or condition protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process should submit the following form: Accessibility Accommodation Request Form and a member of the team will be in contact. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws, including, but not limited to, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act.

Prospective employees required to be screened under Florida law should review the education and awareness resources at HB531 | Florida Agency for Health Care Administration.

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