Principal Solution Engineer

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:
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.

CVS Heath seeking a highly experienced and innovative Principal Solution Engineer for the PCW Solution Engineering team at CVS Health. The Principal Solutions Engineer will collaborate with and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement and support technical solutions. This role is expected to carry a passion for staying on top of tech trends, experimenting with and learning new technologies, participating in internal & external technology communities and mentoring other members of the engineering community. A firm understanding of development principles, agile methodologies and knowledge of pharmacy processing is crucial for success in the role. You should have the ability to prioritize well, communicate clearly, have a consistent track record of delivery and excellent software engineering skills. A successful candidate will be a highly motivated, collaborative individual; motivated to achieve results in a fast-paced environment.

Additional skills:

• Strong critical thinker who makes balanced, insightful decisions
• A natural leader that leads by example
• Possesses a constant sense of urgency
• Fact-based problem solver with the ability to evaluate alternative courses of action and make sound management decisions
• Collaborative style, with the ability to establish working relationships across the senior management team, business units, as well as with external advisors and constituents
• Self-starters, problem solvers; comfortable jumping in as needed to support the team
• Creates a safe environment for everyone to bring their whole selves to work every day

Additional Responsibilities:

• Analyze project and application requirements
• Design system, multi-system, and enterprise-wide application solutions
• Code when necessary (this is a "hand-on" role)
• Evaluate, propose, and develop solutions to technical challenges
• Broader vision of Pharmacy Systems and propose solution that will benefit the business
• Consider business outcome when designing solutions
• Contribute to annual road map reviews and updates charting the path for the technology
• Leverage Design Patterns to solve recurring development functions
• Collaborate with other architects to develop integrated systems with common principles
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture to develop standards that can be used throughout the enterprise
• Generate new System Architectural Design documents and support the modifications of existing ones
• Maintain awareness of Enterprise technology standards and their direction
• Maintain system designs (e.g. diagrams, connection points, interfaces, etc.)
• Evaluate and/or review the impact of changes on application performance and platform capacity

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ of experience in one or more programming languages like Java, Python, Go, Node.js or microservices/containerization
• 5+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service, cloud optimization, security, performance and cost efficiencies
• 5+ years of experience in Database Technologies like Oracle, Mongo, Redis, PostgreSQL