Principal Software Engineer - AI Innovation

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Position Summary

Our Consumer Experience and Analytics organization, within CVS Health's, Data, Digital, Analytics, Technology (DDAT) organization, is seeking a Principal Software engineer with hands-on, passionate, driven people who want to join a high energy and growing team to make a difference in consumer's lives and want to be on the forefront of AI innovation that aims to reinvent and help our members to get answers to their health related questions and outreaches during their journey. CVS Health's mandate is to transform health and wellness via products that enable consumer engagement and best-in-class experience.

A key part of the responsibility is to build an integrated platform that enables the delivery of products to drive engagement and revolutionize health and wellness. In this role and within this team, you will work on applications and products that are on the forefront of technology. Leveraging your expertise in key technologies & initiatives, you will join an architecture team that is building a cloud platform that will transform the healthcare industry and improve the lives of hundreds of millions of people. In this role, you be a part of a large-scale architecture, product and engineering environment, leading technical architecture initiatives for one or more value streams, Agile Release Trains, or platforms.

This role requires relationship-building skills, broad and deep technical knowledge, great communication skills, and strategic thinking.

• Proven leader with the demonstrated ability to create technical solutions in large organizations with complex business requirements and constraints.

• Strong ability to work with multiple stakeholders, including Business, Product, Engineering and platform team members to influence the application data-flow design and extensible product platform architecture.

• Takes a disciplined approach to software development and problem-solving; excels at breaking down large problems into multi-step plans in an Agile development environment.

• A systems problem solver, able to move fluidly between high-level abstract thinking and detailed implementation.

• Experience with various types of software architectures including Micro Frontend/Microservice architecture and drive large solutions across multiple applications.

• Possesses broad technology knowledge (cloud, enterprise applications, microservices, data analytics, networking, data storage systems, APIs, large-scale systems).

• Good understanding of ADA and other regulatory compliances including PCI, PII, and PHI.

• Excellent collaboration, influencing, negotiation, coaching and coalition-building skills.

• Excels at building relationships and has top-notch communication and evangelism skills.

• Passionate about technology with a very high technical aptitude.

Responsibilities Include:

• Works closely with Product Managers/Owners, Application Architects and Engineering Leads to provide guidance on implementation of reference architecture solutions that demonstrate best in class user experiences.

• Investigate and come up w/ plans for technology integrations and lead the building of POCs to validate technical hypothesis and provide reference architectural solutions.

• 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.

• Writes white papers, guides, how-to's, and other technical documentation that clearly explains architectural guidelines, vision, promotes technical direction, and serves as a reference for the internal developer community.

• Excellent collaboration, influencing, evangelization, negotiati