Senior Software Engineering Manager - Developer Experience and Automation

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

At CVS, we're dedicated to creating a unique and seamless experience for our developers across CVS Digital. We are seeking a strong hands-on senior software engineer who can transform developer’s experiences into innovative solutions, making the journey for our developers at CVS both productive and enjoyable.

This is a newly established team at CVS, and we need a strong technical engineering manager who can work with engineers, product managers, designers, architects, and leadership to build platforms that developers love to use. This is a unique opportunity to help build a team from the ground up.

As a Senior Engineering Manager on the team, you will build and rollout APIs, CLI tools, out-of-the-box automation tools using CVS Health approved tools, LLMs and Machine Learning algorithms, test, preview, deploy. 

As a Senior Engineering Manager supporting our Developer Experience and Automation team, you should be able lead and drive:

Strategic Leadership: Drive the vision and roadmap for intelligent automation initiatives that streamline developer workflows and enhance engineering outcomes.

Solution Architecture: Oversee the design and implementation of scalable, cloud-native applications using modern full-stack frameworks.

AI Integration: Champion the integration of AI capabilities into automation pipelines to enable adaptive systems and data-driven decision-making.

Performance Optimization: Apply DORA metrics to assess and continuously improve engineering performance, delivery velocity, and operational efficiency.

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with engineering, product, and platform teams to align automation strategies with organizational goals.

What We Expect of You:

• Leading teams to design, implement, and optimize automated systems
• Key responsibilities include project management, technical leadership, strategic planning, and stakeholder collaboration
• Advocate for engineering best practices, including test coverage, clean code, and security
• Be data-driven and articulate the value our platform provides to all engineering teams at CVS Health
• Work closely with data scientists, software developers, and business stakeholders to translate AI research into practical, deployable solutions that address business needs and enhance decision-making processes
• Lead the prototyping and experimentation with new generative models, optimizing them for specific use cases (e.g., content generation, personalization, simulation) and scaling prototypes into production-grade applications
• Emphasize the importance of mentorship and training to upskill both yourself and junior engineers, fostering a strong and supportive engineering team
• Act as a technical leader across all parts of the CVS Health Infrastructure engineering team
• Collaborate with architecture and engineering teams to standardize how we can enhance the experience
• Stay aligned with the latest developments in cloud-native and ML ops/engineering and to experiment with and learn new technologies – NumPy, data science packages like sci-kit, microservices architecture
• Actively participate in the design and architecture process for new services across teams

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 7+ years of overall experience in Software Development, Agile Practices, Team and Project/Product Management
• 3+ years of overall development experience on enterprise-class applications
• 3+ years partnering with architecture, product, and program management teams to influence product development decisions
• 3+ years of experience working on projects using mature CI/CD practices, source control such as Git, and automated testing
• 2+ years of experience working with large public cloud technologies (e.g., GCP, AWS, Azure)
• Experience in setting up and optimizing efficient data stores (RDBMS/NoSQL) for production
• Experience leading teams that follow a Scrum/Agile development methodology

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Understanding of different infrastructure architecture designs
• Experience partnering with product and engineering leaders to deliver high-quality technology s