Principal Software Development Engineer

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

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. The Principal Software Development Engineer includes closely working with a team of engineers to drive delivery excellence, partner with business and other IT leaders to build digital assets, provide expert level support to resolve complex issues and provide RCA, identify gaps in systems in current digital eco system and provide solutions to enhance overall performance. All of this is critical to driving Digital growth and improving customer experience. This individual will collaborate with digital leaders, business partners, and IT colleagues to deliver business growth and great customer experiences that differentiate CVS in the market, while ensuring efficient, effective, and safe product development.

Expectations for the Role

• Provide technical vision, drive strategy around solutions, solve complex problems, and successfully execute across the Cloud, Java frameworks
• Act as an executive technical leader across strategic efforts, leveraging partners, technical leads, and technical expertise to better inform processes and outcomes
• Act as a technical owner across strategic efforts involving the Cloud, backend solution, streaming, ML and more
• Partner with technical leaders within CVS and the open-source community and contribute to product strategy, frameworks, roadmap definition, and requirements-gathering
• Provide domain knowledge and engineering insight to guide early designs, accelerate project decision-making, and maintain close oversight of technical execution
• Promote reusability of API's across various clients while offering configurations
• Encourage and maintain engineering excellence on the team to build reliable distributed systems that our customers can build their business on
• Become a trusted decision-maker for important projects with high technical or outcome risk
• Develop mindshare by collaborating and discussing ideas
• Plot and execute on the path from prototype to production for features
• Bring passion, energy and excitement to the team and organization

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• At least 10 years of experience in systems analysis and application program development
• 8+ years of experience either managing large software development teams or serving as a Technical Lead / Advisor responsible for technical decision / direction
• At least 5 years of experience building Enterprise solutions and managing client requirements and technical solutions
• 5+ years of development experience in one or more of the following languages: Java, Springboot
• 5+ years of experience with Agile software development
• 3+ years of experience with Cloud Platform experience (GCP or Azure is preferred)
• 2+ years of experience in a DevOps role worked on Kubernetes, Argo, GIT, Jenkins, Maven, JUnit, Docker, JMeter, Artifactory and
• 2+ years of CICD Pipeline automation experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Hands on experience with cloud technologies/platforms
• Good understanding and working experience in IT Security best practices and other compliance standards such as ADA, HIPAA, PCI DSS
• Experience in SAFe Agile work environments; certification of SAFe for leaders would be a plus
• Experience in handling multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; thrives working in a highly iterative, agile, and open team environment
• A strong business and technical vision and the ability to translate these in business and technical approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines with optimal solutions
• Knowledge/experience in the Healthcare space, B2C and/or B2B is a plus

EDUCATION

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

BUSINESS OVERVIEW

Bring your heart to CVS Health