Application Architect Senior

Location: 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 Application Architect Senior is responsible for creating architectural solutions that articulate the business context, conceptual design, and component-level logical design. The Application Architect Senior is a hands-on technical leader responsible for the architecture, design, development, modernization, and operational reliability of Java, Cloud & AI-Enabled Enterprise Applications. This role owns technical solutions across the application lifecycle—from requirements and architectural decisions through implementation, deployment, production support, and continuous improvement.

The architect partners with business stakeholders, enterprise architecture, engineering, infrastructure, security, and data teams to deliver secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective solutions. The role combines deep Java and cloud engineering expertise with practical experience integrating artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI into enterprise applications and software delivery processes.

How You Will Make an Impact

Primary duties may include, but are not limited to:

• Supporting healthcare Enrollment, Billing, and Claims capabilities while leading distributed teams, establishing engineering standards, and translating business needs into measurable technology outcomes.
• Translate business needs into executable solutions.
• Recommends new technologies based upon business value drivers and return on investment; drives new technologies towards implementation and exploitation.
• Establishes overall systems architecture vision and ensures specific components are appropriately designed and leveraged; contributes to the holistic vision of Enterprise Architecture.
• Defines architecture standards and anticipate areas where architecture standards may need to be developed that are in-line with customer, IT and industry standards.
• Directs the construction of architecture components (e.g., data architecture, application architecture, technical architecture).
• Works with business units to translate business strategy into discrete requirements compatible with current technical architectures.
• Defines systems, technical, and application architectures for new strategic initiatives; develops and maintains an architectural blueprint and evolutionary roadmap that defines and communicates the strategic direction for these architectures in support of business and technical strategies; Explains how the roadmap maintains and delivers cost effectiveness, business value, and competitiveness.

Minimum Requirements:

Requires an BA/BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field of study and a minimum of 5 years of experience in architecture/design in relevant technology disciplines; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.

Preferred Skills, Capabilities, and Experiences:

Experience in health care industry strongly preferred. Hands-on experience integrating AI and large language model (LLM) services into enterprise applications through secure APIs, including prompt engineering and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) preferred. Experience using Eclipse, Jira, Bitbucket, and Bamboo; proficiency with Git, Maven, SonarQube, and Veracode strongly preferred. Hands-on experience with Java/J2EE, Spring, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, AOP, Hibernate/ORM, Spring Data, Spring Batch, and schedulers; strong proficiency with JPA and Log4j2 preferred. Experience leading people, small projects and provide troubleshooting support strongly preferred.

Who We Are

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.

How We Work

At Elevance Health, we are creating a culture that is designed to advance our strategy but will also lead to personal and professional growth for our associates. Our values and behaviors are the root of our culture. They are how we achieve our strategy, power our business outcomes and drive our shared success - for our consumers, our associates, our communities and our business.

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.

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.