Staff Software Engineer

At CVS Health, we’re building a world of health around every consumer and surrounding ourselves with dedicated colleagues who are passionate about transforming health care.

As the nation’s leading health solutions company, we reach millions of Americans through our local presence, digital channels and more than 300,000 purpose-driven colleagues – caring for people where, when and how they choose in a way that is uniquely more connected, more convenient and more compassionate. And we do it all with heart, each and every day.

Position Summary:

As Staff Software Engineer, you will be a key contributor to researching and assessing emerging technologies to enable innovation across the enterprise. As part of the Innovation Lab, you will be responsible for spotting, exploring and gaining deep understanding of technological advances, emergent technologies and disruptive trends. You will be responsible for facilitating the ideas of using new and existing technologies in novel and unique ways to support a wide range of technologies including Artificial Intelligence, Internet of things, Immersive Interfaces, Quantum Computing and Robotics.

In this role, you will influence business owners, technical leaders, solution architects and integration architects in achieving CVS Health strategic goals by enabling the use of cutting-edge technologies to solve previously unsolved business challenges. You will also partner with other enterprise architects, solution architects, and engineering teams during the pilot implementations of emerging technologies. You will primarily be responsible for guiding teams on the design and devising strategies to integrate emerging capabilities with existing CVS Health enterprise systems. You will serve as an integral partner, guiding application teams to adopt newer technologies to create disruptive and transformational breakthroughs that create new growth opportunities, competitive business services and result in delightful customer experiences.

Additional Accountability includes:

• Research and explore emerging technologies to enable innovation across the enterprise.
• Works with internal teams, research firms, vendors and universities on technology research and development initiatives.
• Conduct proof-of-technologies, demos, tech talks and generate inspiration for positive and innovative thinking.
• Contribute to knowledge bank and maintain repository for deliverables, methodologies, and solution patterns.
• Collaborate with business owners and IT leaders to identify opportunities to apply emerging technologies to solve complex business problems.
• Be a technologist and work with other Engineers in planning, prioritizing and performing assigned tasks within deadlines
• Lead, mentor and work with a team of engineers to deliver solution prototypes and/or MVPs for multiple use cases and assist with accelerating the adoption of emerging capabilities.
• Partner with application owners, business partners and peer groups regarding long and short-range technical solutions that meet business requirements.
•  Provides consultation to application owners, business partners and peer groups to enable early adoption of emerging technology based solutions to meet business imperatives.

*Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years experience in software engineering from ideation to production deployment of IT solutions
• 10+ years experience in full software development life cycle including ideation, coding, coding standards, testing, code reviews and production deployments
• 7+ years experience in one or more programing languages such as Java or Python
• 7+ years experience with modern software development practices
• 3+ years experience exploring, building and deploying AI/GenAI based applications
• Must have experience developing prototypes and MVPs using LLMs such as GPT, Gemini, Cloude and Mistral.

*Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience with development and deployment of Minimum Viable Products (MVPs)
• Experience with unstructured text analytics, cognitive search, voice/video/natural language processing, image processing and other AI / GenAI related emerging concepts and technologies
• Experience with Hybrid cloud platforms with working knowledge and/or certification on AWS, Azure or Google cloud platform.
• Must demonstrate technical leadership, be able to turn vision into action, drive outcomes, and promote common goals and actions.
• Must demonstrate innovative mindset, divergent thinking and convergent actions.
• T shaped IT professional with depth of knowledge in a few areas and breadth of knowledge in many areas.
• Complete understanding of the software development lifecycle - must have participated on many projects through thei