# Senior Manager, Data Engineering & AI

**Company**: CVS Health
**Location**: Irving, TX
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $118,450.00 - $284,280.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We're building a world of health around every individual , shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience.

The Senior Manager, Data Engineering & AI is both a people leader and a technical leader who leads from the front. This person manages a team of data and software engineers, owns their development, performance, and delivery, and stays close to the work by committing approximately 50% of their time to hands-on engineering.

**Responsibilities:**

- **People Management & Team Leadership**

+ Manages a team of software engineers and data engineers, including hiring, onboarding, goal setting, performance management, career development, and retention.   + Provides regular coaching, feedback, and recognition, and addresses performance concerns directly and constructively.   + Mentors engineers, identifies skill gaps, and provides training and growth opportunities to strengthen team capabilities.

- **Hands-On Engineering & Technical Leadership**

+ Dedicate approximately 50% of time to hands-on work, including designing, coding, prototyping, and troubleshooting data pipelines, services, and AI-enabled applications.   + Sets the bar for engineering quality by authoring reference implementations, establishing patterns, and tackling the most complex technical challenges alongside the team.

- **Strategy & Architecture**

+ Defines strategy for the full software development lifecycle, utilizing emerging technologies and key data design principles in developing data pipelines, interfaces, and architecture to support data and analytics initiatives.   + Develops and executes a strategic roadmap for data-driven and AI-enabled software projects, aligning them with business objectives and the overall technology vision.

- **AI & Data Engineering**

+ Leads the design and delivery of AI and ML-enabled data products, including GenAI, RAG, and LLM-based solutions, along with supporting data foundations, MLOps/LLMOps practices, and evaluation frameworks.   + Builds scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient pipelines and platforms for batch and real-time data processing.

- **Cross-Functional Partnership**

+ Partners with product managers and UX/UI designers to define requirements, shape roadmaps, prioritize work, and translate needs into technical specifications and deliverables.   + Partners with data scientists and analytics teams to productionize models and prototypes into secure, observable, scalable systems.   + Builds and sustains strong relationships with business stakeholders to understand priorities, shape the direction of data and AI investments, and demonstrate measurable value.

**Requirements:**

- 8+ years of experience in data engineering, software engineering, or a related field.

- 3+ years of people management experience, including hiring, performance management, and developing engineers.

- Demonstrated ability and willingness to commit approximately 50% of time to hands-on design and development.

- Deep understanding of full-stack engineering, software engineering principles, design fundamentals, and first-principles problem-solving.

- Strong proficiency in Python and SQL, plus at least one additional language.

- Proven experience designing and building data pipelines, data models, and data platforms on a major cloud provider.

- Hands-on experience applying AI/ML or GenAI in production data environments.

**Benefits:**

- Medical, dental, and vision coverage

- Paid time off

- Retirement savings options

- Wellness programs

- Other resources, based on eligibility

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- SQL
- Java
- Scala
- JavaScript/TypeScript
- GenAI
- RAG
- LLM

### Nice to have
- HIPAA
- PHI handling
- healthcare data standards
- contact center analytics engineering
- LangChain
- LangGraph
- vector databases
- managed AI platforms

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