Engineering Tech Lead Senior

Elevance Health•Atlanta, GA

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Engineering Tech Lead Senior is responsible for leading the end to end application system development and maintenance on large complex enterprise wide technology platforms. How you will make an impact: Develop, enhance, and maintain enterprise applications using Java, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, REST APIs, Microservices. Implement ORM/JPA/Hibernate models and integrate with relational or NoSQL databases. Build, optimize, and troubleshoot microservices including inter-service communication and API orchestration. Participate in converting monolithic applications to microservices-based architectures. Build responsive and high-performance UI components using JavaScript / TypeScript with Angular or React. Integrate UI with backend services, ensuring security, usability, and reliability. 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 team to increase the presence of web products. Anticipates broad technical change and ensures that company technology stays ahead of the curve. Prioritize projects and make trade-offs with respect to the enterprise systems changes based on broader business needs. Understands the entire architecture for a major part of our business and is able to articulate the scaling and reliability limits. Owns the change request process and coordinates with other teams as necessary. Develops and owns list of final enhancements. Develops and defines application scope and objectives and supervises the preparation of technical and/or functional specifications from with programs will be written. Performs technical design reviews and code reviews. Ensures unit test is completed and meets the test plan requirements, system testing is completed and system is implemented according to plan. May participates in developing the multi-year technology strategy for critical areas of the business that may encompass multiple systems. Partners with technical and non technical stakeholder to identify the long term technical trajectory of the technology infrastructure. Creates architecture and anticipates future technology needs. Leads the conversations internally about the direction of major areas of the technology, drives wide-team consensus to the adoption of this direction, and uses this direction when engaging engineers. Coordinates and manages on-call support and owns the system monitoring process. Reviews and monitors initiatives for end to end impact and coordination. Participates in review and decision making for enterprise solutions.

Requirements

Requires an BA/BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field of study a minimum of 9 years experience; multi dimensional platform experience, expert level experience with business and technical applications; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.

Nice To Haves

8 to 10 years of hands-on development experience in software engineering, including hands‑on design, development, architecture, and technical leadership strongly preferred.
Strong expertise in Java, Spring Boot, REST, Microservices, JPA/Hibernate, ORM frameworks, and frontend development using Angular/React with TypeScript, along with hands-on experience in Git, CI/CD pipelines, and core DevOps practices preferred.
Practical exposure in integrating AI/ML components into enterprise solutions (e.g., predictive models, automation tools, generative AI integration) preferred.
Experience evaluating AI frameworks and implementing: Model inference pipelines, Embedding AI into microservices, Using vector stores, APIs, or cloud AI services strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Develop, enhance, and maintain enterprise applications using Java, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, REST APIs, Microservices.
Implement ORM/JPA/Hibernate models and integrate with relational or NoSQL databases.
Build, optimize, and troubleshoot microservices including inter-service communication and API orchestration.
Participate in converting monolithic applications to microservices-based architectures.
Build responsive and high-performance UI components using JavaScript / TypeScript with Angular or React.
Integrate UI with backend services, ensuring security, usability, and reliability.
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 team to increase the presence of web products.
Anticipates broad technical change and ensures that company technology stays ahead of the curve.
Prioritize projects and make trade-offs with respect to the enterprise systems changes based on broader business needs.
Understands the entire architecture for a major part of our business and is able to articulate the scaling and reliability limits.
Owns the change request process and coordinates with other teams as necessary.
Develops and owns list of final enhancements.
Develops and defines application scope and objectives and supervises the preparation of technical and/or functional specifications from with programs will be written.
Performs technical design reviews and code reviews.
Ensures unit test is completed and meets the test plan requirements, system testing is completed and system is implemented according to plan.
May participates in developing the multi-year technology strategy for critical areas of the business that may encompass multiple systems.
Partners with technical and non technical stakeholder to identify the long term technical trajectory of the technology infrastructure.
Creates architecture and anticipates future technology needs.
Leads the conversations internally about the direction of major areas of the technology, drives wide-team consensus to the adoption of this direction, and uses this direction when engaging engineers.
Coordinates and manages on-call support and owns the system monitoring process.
Reviews and monitors initiatives for end to end impact and coordination.
Participates in review and decision making for enterprise solutions.