Principal Engineer - FDE

Elevance Health•Walnut Creek, CA

7d•$218,208 - $272,760•Hybrid

About The Position

The Principal Engineer - FDE works with the business and technology stakeholder's on the development and delivery of end to end application technology products and services for enterprise wide technology application platforms that are aligned to the organizations strategic objectives and initiatives.

Requirements

Requires a BA/BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field of study, and a minimum of 11 years experience; experience with multi dimensional platforms, and business and technical applications required; or any combination of education and experience which would provide an equivalent background.

Nice To Haves

Experience mentoring others, driving teams to achieve results, leading multiple and/or large complex technical projects, and providing troubleshooting support.
Multi database and/or multi language.
Experience owning the end-to-end technical mission—translating an ambiguous business problem into a working production solution, from architecture and rapid prototyping through integration, testing, deployment, and stabilization.
Hands-on technical leader—designing and building across AI, applications, APIs, data, cloud, and legacy platforms while guiding other FDEs and federated engineering partners.
Experience engineering trust and production readiness from day one—embedding security, privacy, compliance, evaluations, observability, human oversight, and reliability into the solution rather than treating them as late-stage approvals.
Experience turning field delivery into reusable enterprise capability—converting mission learnings into reusable components, integration patterns, evaluation packs, development standards, and platform backlog enhancements that make subsequent missions faster and less expensive.

Responsibilities

Works with stakeholders to establish the overall applications architecture vision and ensures specific components are appropriately designed and leveraged in a multi-product environment.
Recommends new technology solutions and products are delivered to stakeholders and align with enterprise strategic objectives.
Collaborate with stakeholders and technology to define business requirements.
Oversee the development and delivery of technical and/or functional specifications.
Oversee the technical design reviews and testing to architectural technologies for application solutions and products meet business requirements.
Leading and define the overall application system technology and architecture, development.
Assesses the compatibility and integration of solutions and products.
Works with IT to lead IT Business Transformation application architecture strategy and vision.
Provides continuous consulting services and direction on projects.
Champions and responsible for architectural standards, guidelines, principles, frameworks, and reference models.
Collaborate with all stakeholders to define architectures for new strategic initiatives as well.