Description
We're building a world of health around every individual , shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience.
At CVS Health, you'll be working with a team of passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold themselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do.
We are seeking a highly experienced and innovative Principal (Director Level) Software Development Engineer to lead the application architecture, design, development, delivery of next-generation digital and analytical based applications, and optimization of scalable, secure, and high-performance solutions across all major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, and GCP).
Key Responsibilities:
- Define and communicate the broader vision, executing the IT strategy in alignment with organizational standards
- Serve as the primary point of contact for stakeholders, including architects, application owners, and engineers, to define overall strategy, prioritization, and execution
- Lead engineering and application architectural initiatives, ensuring alignment with the enterprise technology strategy and supporting the long-term evolution of the platform while creating scalable technical solutions
- Develop and maintain multi-year technology roadmaps that translate complex business capabilities into robust, scalable, and secure architectures, while effectively providing Technical leadership oversight, leading technical debt and balancing modernization with delivery priorities
- Leverage performance data to create feedback loops that drive continuous insight and improvement
- Champion strong product management and agile mindsets by actively communicating team successes and identifying areas for growth
- Build and lead high-performing teams capable of overcoming complex technical challenges to solve business-critical problems
Required Qualifications
- 10+ progressive years of experience in defining and driving full stack software engineering, architecture and delivery cloud native platforms for large-scale distributed systems and digital platforms
- 5+ years in hands on experience as senior/principal/architect roles building cloud native applications with cloud technologies such as GCP, AWS, AZURE, GKE, Google DBs (BigQuery, Spanner, BigTable) or other PaaS with deep expertise in API-first and microservices architectures
- 5+ years of experience using front end development tools like Angular, React, React TypeScript, React JS
- 5+ years of experience in building backend functionality using Python, API Forge, Rest API, Java
- 5+ years of experience working in a Scrum iterative delivery, using Agile concepts such as Sprint planning, CI/CD
- 3+ years of hands-on experience integrating AI/GenAI capabilities
Preferred Qualifications
- 12+ years preferred with advanced STEM degree
- Act as a technical advisor to engineering and product leadership
- Influence cross-team technical direction and strategy
- Establish and promote engineering best practices
- Mentor and coach engineers across levels
- Experience with AI development tools such as Cursor, Copilot, Vertex AI Studio, Claude Code, will be a plus
- Experience building enterprise healthcare or regulated-industry platforms
- Familiarity with healthcare data, privacy, and compliance requirements
- Exposure to ML-Ops and AI lifecycle management
- Experience with identity, security, and privacy architectures
- Track record of influencing architecture across large organizations
- Experience contributing to platform or developer ecosystem strategies
- Strong foundational knowledge in AI, with prior experience using AI technologies such as OpenAI, Gemini, and Agentic AI automation
- Experience in the healthcare domain
- Experience with cloud networking and firewall implementation for new platforms
- Experience with application and database migration and modernization to the cloud
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience
Pay Range
- $144,200.00 - $288,400.00
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Paid time off
- Retirement savings options
- Wellness programs
- Other resources, based on eligibility