Engineer Lead Sr, FDE

Elevance Health•Indianapolis, IN

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Engineer Lead Sr FDE is responsible for leading end-to-end application system development and maintenance for large, complex, enterprise-wide technology platforms. 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. 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.

Requirements

Requires a BA/BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field of study and a minimum of 9 years of experience, including experience with multidimensional platforms and business and technical applications; or any combination of education and experience that would provide an equivalent background.

Nice To Haves

Experience with LLMs, agentic AI, RAG, MCP/tool calling, Python, APIs, and cloud AI platforms strongly preferred.
Strong full-stack engineering and system design background strongly preferred.
Experience with evaluation frameworks, prompt/model testing, and responsible AI strongly preferred.
Ability to operate effectively across business and technical stakeholders strongly preferred.
Experience mentoring others and driving teams to achieve results strongly preferred.
Experience leading multiple and/or large-scale projects strongly preferred.
Experience providing troubleshooting and production support strongly preferred.
Experience working across multiple databases and/or programming languages strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Lead the design and delivery of AI-enabled and agentic solutions from problem framing through production.
Define the technical approach for LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), tool integration, orchestration, human-in-the-loop, and evaluation patterns.
Work directly with business, product, and engineering teams to convert ambiguous problems into working solutions.
Mentor E14 engineers and ensure reusable AI patterns are captured for future FDG missions.
Maintains active relationships with customers to determine business requirements, leads requirements-gathering meetings, and reviews designs with the business.
Leads efforts with Web and Marketing teams to increase the presence of web products.
Anticipates broad technical changes and ensures company technology stays ahead of the curve.
Prioritizes projects and makes trade-offs for enterprise system changes based on broader business needs.
Understands the architecture for major areas of the business and can articulate scaling and reliability limits.
Owns the change request process and coordinates with other teams as necessary.
Develops and owns the final list of enhancements.
Defines application scope and objectives and oversees the preparation of technical and/or functional specifications.
Performs technical design and code reviews.
Ensures unit and system testing are completed according to requirements and implementation plans.
Leads delivery of application technology solutions and data/information planning efforts.
May participate in developing multi-year technology strategies for critical areas of the business across multiple systems.
Partners with technical and non-technical stakeholders to identify the long-term technical direction of the technology infrastructure.
Creates architecture and anticipates future technology needs.
Leads internal conversations on the direction of major technology areas and drives cross-team consensus and adoption.
Coordinates and manages on-call support and owns the system monitoring process.
Reviews initiatives for end-to-end impact and coordination.
Participates in enterprise solution reviews and decision-making.