Senior Software Engineering Manager - Pharmacy Systems

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 surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time.

POSITION SUMMARY
CVS Health Digital is looking for hands-on, passionate people who want to join a high energy and growing team to make a difference in customers’ lives and who want to be on the forefront of digital innovation that aims to reinvent what a pharmacy and a health care company can be in the digital world. Currently, we are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager – Pharmacy Systems who will be a part of our Pharmacy Technology organization which is comprised of numerous teams that support, enhance, and create new programs and services that support our suite of pharmacy services. The development of these programs will help build our Next Generation Pharmacy Platform to ensure the delivery of use cases into products focusing on helping people live healthier lives. In this role and within the team of dedicated software engineers that you will lead, you will work on applications and products that are on the forefront of technology.

**This role requires someone to work a minimum of 3 days per week from our Woonsocket, RI headquarters**

Expectations for the Role:

• Partner with application owners, business partners and peer groups regarding long and short-range technical solutions that meets business objectives
• Analyze and contribute to project and business requirements based on product team milestones and priority
• Actively participate in Agile Scrum team activities including Sprint Planning, Grooming, Scrum, Reviews and Retrospectives
• Be a technologist and work with other Engineers in planning, prioritizing and performing assigned tasks within deadlines
• Will be primarily responsible for Backend Application development & delivery including production deployment, application operationalization, and observability
• Develop GraphQL APIs using Springboot and other tech stacks (Open source and proprietary)
• Unit testing using frameworks such as Junit, Mockito
• Build and deploy services using GitHub Actions as part of CI/CD process in leading Cloud Platforms - AWS, GCP or Azure etc.
• Continuously checking and monitoring App health and KPIs, support triage of any production issues as and when needed
• Be an advocate for and implementer of security best practices
• Adopt and apply industry technology best practices

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 7+ overall years of software development experience either building or supporting / managing Backend development teams
• 5+ years of backend software development experience with programming languages/tools including: Java, Spring boot
• 3+ years of leadership experience, directly managing individual contributors
• 3+ years building of prior hands on experience developing highly available, performant, scalable Backend services

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience building and operating large scale distributed systems
• Strong desire to see others succeed by mentoring and coaching other engineers
• Ability to learn quickly and adapt to change requirements
• Strong understanding of observability and using telemetry to inform decision making
• Experience working in a Scrum/Agile development methodology
• Healthcare domain experience

EDUCATION
Bachelor’s degree or, equivalent experience (HS diploma + 4 years relevant experience)

BUSINESS OVERVIEW
Bring your heart to CVS Health Every one of us at CVS Health shares a single, clear purpose: Bringing our heart to every moment of your health. This purpose guides our commitment to deliver enhanced human-centric health care for a rapidly changing world. Anchored in our brand — with heart at its center — our purpose sends a personal message that how we deliver our services is just as important as what we deliver.  Our Heart At Work Behaviors™ support this purpose. We want everyone who works at CVS Health to feel empowered by the role they play in transforming our culture and accelerating our ability to innovate and deliver solutions to make health care more personal, convenient and affordable.  We strive to promote and sustain a culture of diversity, inclusion and belonging every day.  CVS Health is an affirmative action employer, and is an equal opportunity employer, as are the physician-owned businesses for which CVS Health provides management services. We do not di