Cloud Engineer Lead

Lead Cloud Engineer

Location: This position will work a hybrid model (remote and in office 1 - 2 days per week). Ideal candidates will live or be willing to relocate to within 50 miles of one of our Pulse Point locations in Grand Prairie, TX, Indianapolis, IN, Atlanta, GA or Richmond, VA.

The Lead Cloud Engineer will be responsible for full delivery of end-to-end system development and maintenance on medium Enterprise-wide technology platforms. The Lead Cloud Engineer will help our data engineering initiatives with a particular focus on leveraging AWS, GCP, Snowflake, SQL Server, Oracle, Python, Apache Airflow, SSIS, and DataStage. This pivotal role involves leading the design, implementation, and optimization of our cloud-based data infrastructure, ensuring scalability, performance, and security. The successful candidate will be at the forefront of managing our data workflows, supporting analytics, and driving insights that inform strategic business decisions.

How you will make an impact:

• Leads requirements gathering meetings and reviews designs with the business.

• Leads efforts with Web and Marketing teams to increase the presence of web products.

• Implements improvements in stability, performance, and scalability across major business-critical systems.

• Implements process to reduce barriers and roadblocks in projects, services, and processes in order to operate more efficiently.

• 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.

• Responsible for delivery of application technology solutions and data information planning effort.

• Coordinates and manages on-call support and owns the system monitoring process.

• Owns the technical development environment and works on the Enterprise team.

• Leads multiple or large projects and facilitates large group JAD sessions for requirements, modeling in several disciplines Leads vendor evaluation and analysis.

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, and Experiences:

• Experience mentoring others and providing troubleshooting support strongly preferred.

• Multi-database and/or multi-language experience strongly preferred.

• Proficiency in data modeling, data structures (e. g. , relational, and non-relational data), databases, and ETL/ELT processes and an in-depth understanding of large-scale data sets including both structured and unstructured data with a solid track record of developing and executing data strategies that support business objectives strongly preferred.

• Proficiency in designing, implementing, and delivering scalable data solutions and pipelines on one of the cloud platforms (e. g. , AWS, Azure, GCP) strongly preferred.

• Hands-on experience in the development, deployment, and operation of integration technologies (e. g. , APIs) strongly preferred.

• Proficiency with data warehouses (e. g. , Snowflake, SQL Server, Redshift, Big Query etc. ) strongly preferred.

• Experience with containerization technologies (e. g. , Docker, Kubernetes) strongly preferred.

• Experience with DevOps, Git, Bitbucket, CI/CD strongly preferred.

• Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and project management skills preferred.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities, capable of effectively leading a team and collaborating with various stakeholders preferred.

• Healthcare experience preferred.

Please be advised that Elevance Health only accepts resumes for compensation from agencies that have a signed agreement with Elevance Health. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Elevance Health.

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.

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. Candidates must reside within 50 miles or 1-hour commute each way of a relevant Elevance Health location.

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.