Lead AI Platform Engineer

Lead AI Platform Engineer

This role requires associates to be in-office 1 - 2 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 Lead AI Platform Engineer will own technical outcomes for core areas of the AI platform (APIs, data pipelines, developer hub/marketplace). Set architecture, elevate engineering standards, and ensure systems are secure, observable, scalable, and cost effective.

How You Will Make an Impact

• Lead design and delivery for platform domains including gateway policies, authN/authZ, multi tenant isolation, quotas/rate limits, usage metering, and versioning strategy.
• Define SLOs/SLIs, capacity plans, caching strategies, and rollout policies (feature flags, canary, blue/green), lead design and code reviews.
• Drive reliability engineering: incident management, RCAs, error budgets, and continuous hardening; reduce MTTR through automation and clear runbooks.
• Mature change management across teams; manage dependencies and integration points; steward backward compatibility and deprecation processes.
• Optimize cost and performance (autoscaling, concurrency, GPU/CPU scheduling for inference, storage/egress controls).
• Mentor engineers; create reusable templates, SDKs, and reference architectures; influence cross team roadmaps.
• Lead vendor/tool evaluations; balance build vs. buy; steward total cost of ownership and compliance requirements, especially with AI offerings.
• Integrate services with model endpoints, vector indexes, and metadata/catalog systems; follow contracts and versioning standards for backward compatibility.

Minimum Requirements

Requires a BA/BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field of study and a minimum of 7 years related experience; multi platform, multi-dimensional experience, and expert level experience with business and technical applications; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.

Preferred Skills, Capabilities & Experiences

Experience mentoring others and provide troubleshooting support strongly preferred. Multi database and/or multi language strongly preferred. Deep experience with distributed systems, platform observability, and zero downtime deployments; proven leadership of cross team initiatives. Strong grounding in security by design (IAM, secrets, network segmentation, data protection) and compliance aware delivery. Demonstrated track record shipping developer platform capabilities (portals, catalogs, CLIs/SDKs) and usage metering/analytics.

For candidates working in person or virtually in the below location(s), the salary range for this specific position is $138,160 to $226,080. Locations: Washington, Illinois and California. In addition to your salary, Elevance Health offers benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). The salary offered for this specific position is based on a number of legitimate, non-discriminatory factors set by the Company. The Company is fully committed to ensuring equal pay opportunities for equal work regardless of gender, race, or any other category protected by federal, state, and local pay equity laws.

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. 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 may contact elevancehealthjobssupport@elevancehealth.com for assistance.