Engineer Lead Sr.

Elevance Health•Atlanta, GA

7d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Engineer Lead Sr. leads end-to-end application system development and maintenance on large, complex, enterprise-wide technology platforms. The role works with customers and business stakeholders to define requirements, review designs, set application scope and objectives, and deliver application technology solutions and data information planning. The position provides technical leadership across major business areas by shaping architecture and technology direction, anticipating future needs and broad technical changes, and guiding teams toward scalable, reliable solutions. It also oversees change requests and enhancements, technical and code reviews, testing and implementation, system monitoring, on-call support coordination, and end-to-end initiative coordination. The role may contribute to multi-year technology strategy for critical business areas. This is a hybrid role requiring associates to work in the office one to two days per week, with candidates required to live within reasonable commuting distance of an office unless an accommodation is granted. The stated schedule is 8:00 AM–5:00 PM EST.

Requirements

BA/BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field, and at least 9 years of experience; alternatively, an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Experience with multidimensional platforms and business and technical applications.

Nice To Haves

Experience mentoring others, driving teams to achieve results, leading multiple or large projects, and providing troubleshooting support.
Experience with multiple databases and/or programming languages.
Experience in the health care industry.
Experience with monolithic, layered, service-oriented, and microservices architectures.
Knowledge of event-driven architecture, API-first design, and distributed systems.
Understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, or infrastructure automation.
Experience with message brokers or event platforms such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, Azure Service Bus, or AWS SNS/SQS.
Experience with relational databases such as SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, or MySQL and testing frameworks such as JUnit, NUnit, xUnit, Jest, PyTest, or similar.
Experience with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, DynamoDB, Cosmos DB, or Cassandra.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
Experience with software development frameworks such as Spring Boot, .NET, Node.js, React, Angular, or similar.
Programming skills in Java, C#, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, and/or Go.

Responsibilities

Maintain active relationships with customers to determine business requirements, lead requirements-gathering meetings, and review designs with the business.
Lead efforts with the Web and marketing teams to increase the presence of web products.
Anticipate broad technical change and ensure company technology stays ahead of the curve.
Prioritize projects and make trade-offs for enterprise system changes based on broader business needs.
Understand and articulate the architecture, scaling limits, and reliability limits for a major part of the business.
Own the change request process and coordinate with other teams as necessary.
Develop and own the list of final enhancements.
Define application scope and objectives and supervise preparation of technical and functional specifications.
Perform technical design reviews and code reviews.
Ensure unit testing meets test plan requirements, system testing is completed, and systems are implemented according to plan.
Deliver application technology solutions and data information planning efforts.
Participate in developing multi-year technology strategy for critical business areas that may encompass multiple systems.
Partner with technical and non-technical stakeholders to identify the long-term technical trajectory of technology infrastructure.
Create architecture and anticipate future technology needs.
Lead internal discussions about technology direction, build team consensus for adoption, and guide engineers using that direction.
Coordinate and manage on-call support and own the system monitoring process.
Review and monitor initiatives for end-to-end impact and coordination.
Participate in review and decision-making for enterprise solutions.