Lead Software Engineer - AI Platform Team

Wellmark is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join the AI Platform team within Information Products. This team builds the governed platform capabilities, reusable patterns, and engineering standards that help teams adopt AI safely, quickly, and consistently across the enterprise. In this role, you will lead the design and delivery of secure, scalable, and observable platform services that power AI-enabled products, agents, and intelligent workflows. You will serve as a hands-on technical leader, partnering with engineers, architects, product leaders, and governance stakeholders to shape how AI is responsibly adopted and operated at Wellmark. What You Will Help Build The AI Platform team is delivering the Apollo AI Platform: a governed, composable foundation for building and operating AI-powered applications. The platform abstracts model access, tool execution, knowledge retrieval, and agent orchestration behind consistent interfaces with enterprise-grade security, observability, and governance. Governed platform capabilities: model access routing, prompt lifecycle management, agent runtime, tool execution, knowledge management, evaluation, telemetry, and cost management. Reusable engineering patterns: shared SDKs, RAG templates, prompt libraries, infrastructure-as-code constructs, and service catalog capabilities that reduce duplication and accelerate delivery. Built-in security and compliance: identity, authorization, policy enforcement, guardrails, auditability, and controls designed for regulated environments. Developer experience: documentation, onboarding paths, templates, and self-service capabilities that make safe AI adoption easier for internal teams.