Lead Cloud Engineer

Location: This position will work a hybrid model (remote and office). The Ideal candidate will live within 50 miles of one of our Elevance Health PulsePoint locations.

A proud member of the Elevance Health family of companies, Carelon Medical Benefits Management, formerly AIM Specialty Health, is a benefit- management leader in Illinois. Our platform delivers significant cost- of-care savings across an expanding set of clinical domains, including radiology, cardiology and oncology.

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 team to increase the presence of web products.

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

• May implement 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 provide troubleshooting support strongly preferred Multi database and/or multi language strongly preferred.

• Proficient 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.

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

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

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

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

• Experience with DevOps, Git, Bitbucket, CI/CD

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

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

• Healthcare experience is preferred.