Hybrid AI Application Architect

at Elevance Health

• Job title: AI Application Architect
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $117,936 - $202,176 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Azure, Cloud, Google Cloud Platform, Microservices
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Atlanta, United States

About the role

• AI Application Architect designing AI-centric application architectures for Elevance Health while integrating AI models and capabilities into enterprise applications. Collaborating with engineering and data science teams to ensure scalable solutions.

Responsibilities

• Creates architectural solutions that articulate the business context, conceptual design, and component-level logical design
• Designs AI-centric application architectures and patterns that guide the integration of LLMs, ML models, and intelligent capabilities into enterprise applications
• Builds and evaluates POCs/POTs to validate architectural patterns, reference implementations, and new AI frameworks
• Creates linkage across architectural components, ensuring cohesive and scalable integration of AI workloads
• Defines and evolves standards that incorporate AI, event-driven patterns, microservices, and enterprise integration approaches
• Reviews emerging AI technologies for conformance to architecture guidelines and future-state direction
• Develops foundational AI patterns, RAG architectures, and reusable modules that engineering teams can adopt
• Ensures efficient infrastructure utilization, particularly for compute-heavy AI model workloads
• Partners with engineering, data science, and cloud teams to evaluate end-to-end solution feasibility
• Contributes to overall systems architecture vision and ensures specific components are appropriately designed and leveraged
• Contributes to defining architecture standards and anticipates areas where architecture standards may need to be developed that are in-line with customer, IT and industry standards
• Verifies efficient utilization of hardware and storage capacity
• Develops linkage and relationship of architectural components
• Identifies service requirements, component capacities and loads for planned business growth
• Reviews an application/technology for conformance to the current architecture and standards

Requirements

• BA/BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field of study
• Minimum of 3 years of experience architecture/design in relevant technology disciplines
• Hands-on experience designing AI-enabled architectures highly preferred
• Hands-on experience when needed to develop quick POCs highly preferred
• Strong understanding of LLM and GenAI integration patterns, RAG frameworks, embeddings, vector search highly preferred
• Familiarity with cloud-native AI services (Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, GCP Vertex) highly preferred
• Experience building reference implementations and reusable frameworks highly preferred
• Understanding of ML Ops architecture—feature stores, pipelines, model management highly preferred
• Experience with microservices, event-driven systems, and domain-driven design as they relate to AI integration highly preferred
• Knowledge of responsible AI principles and how to embed them into architectural patterns highly preferred
• Ability to evaluate, compare, and recommend AI frameworks and platforms highly preferred

Benefits

• comprehensive benefits package
• incentive and recognition programs
• equity stock purchase
• 401k contribution
• medical
• dental
• vision
• short and long term disability benefits
• Paid Time Off
• paid holidays
• wellness programs
• financial education resources