# Principal (Director Level) Software Development Engineer

**Company**: CVS Health
**Location**: Buffalo Grove, IL
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $144,200.00 - $288,400.00
**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.

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 applications (including Reporting and financial solutions), and optimization of scalable, secure, and high-performance solutions leveraging AI 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

- Establish epics and initiatives that align with strategic goals and support the product roadmap

- Develop and maintain roadmaps that align critical business needs with scalable technical solutions

- 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

## Skills

### Required
- Cloud Native Applications
- API-first and Microservices Architectures
- Angular
- React
- Python
- Java
- Agile
- Scrum
- AI/GenAI

### Nice to have
- AI Development Tools
- ML-Ops
- AI Lifecycle Management
- Identity Security and Privacy Architectures
- Cloud Networking and Firewall Implementation

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