Principal Software Engineer - Healthcare Delivery

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Position Summary 

Our Healthcare Delivery Analytics Engineering team within the Analytics & Behavior Change (A&BC) division of our Data, Digital, Analytics, Technology (DDAT) organization is seeking a Principal Software Development Engineer.  We are looking for passionate, driven individuals who want to join a high-energy, growing team dedicated to making a difference in the lives of the patients being served by CVS Health businesses like MinuteClinic, Oak Street Health, and Signify Health.   

This role is at the forefront of AI innovation within healthcare, reinventing how we use data, analytics, and machine learning to ensure that the people who trust CVS Health with their care are supported across their healthcare journey by care teams armed with world-class diagnostic & analytics tooling.  Our team’s work is crucial to the mission of CVS Health: a fully integrated care delivery ecosystem utilizing digital, community, home-based and traditional channels, transforming care to drive superior health outcomes and a seamless patient and consumer experience. 

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be responsible for building best-in-class applications that integrate advanced analytics capabilities (predictive models, LLMs, vector search) into complex distributed systems built within the Google Cloud Platform.  You will work on cutting-edge products, leveraging your expertise in cloud technologies, software architecture, and distributed system design.  You will join a high-caliber engineering team dedicated to delivering impact quickly while ensuring our code base and architecture are constantly maturing, allowing us to iterate quickly while we explore bold technical solutions to incredibly complex problems, and then pivot to scaling execution across the lives of millions. 

Responsibilities: 

• Software Development Mastery: Demonstrated excellence in software development with a disciplined approach to problem-solving.  Excels at breaking down complex problems into multi-step plans within an Agile development environment.  Deep understanding of SOLID principles and similar software development philosophies. 

• Engineering Excellence:  Develops solutions that are well engineered, flexible, resilient, operable, maintainable, and can be delivered on schedule. Ensures a balance between tactical and strategic technology solutions.  Ensure all NFRs (e.g., performance, availability and fail-over, scalability, security, etc.) are properly articulated, and work with all parties to guarantee that the software products that are delivered meet these objectives. 

• Architectural Expertise: Strong architectural sense with experience in various software architectures and messaging patterns.  Proven ability to drive large solutions across multiple applications.  Able to analyze existing