Sr Software Development Engineer

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.

This will be a Hybrid position 3 days per week onsite in either Richardson, TX or Buffalo Grove, IL

Position Summary
The Senior Software Development Engineer is responsible for managing the technical needs across PBM or Pharmacy Benefits Management space.  They have accountability for the development, operations and support for web-based tool development platforms.  This position works closely with other technical leaders of the PBM space & Claims Adjudication team to assess business goals, strategic objectives and to build a comprehensive and achievable multi-year roadmap for myPBM teams.  This role will be expected to collaborate very closely with Business Stakeholders, Value Pool Product Managers/Owners and Engineering teams in different development environments.  They will work closely with senior leaders to ensure that investments are aligned to the Enterprise strategic goals.

KEY RESPONSIBLITIES

• Technical Leadership: Provide technical leadership and guidance to the engineering team, driving technical excellence, establishing web best practices, and ensuring the use of industry-standard methodologies and technologies

• Technology Evaluation: Research and evaluate emerging technologies, tools, and frameworks to identify opportunities for innovation and improvement in the digital health space

• Software Development: Utilize advanced programming skills to design and implement complex features, optimize performance, and ensure code quality

• Problem Solving: Identify and solve complex technical problems that arise during the development process

• Technical Insights and Recommendations: Deliver technical insights and recommendations to drive informed decision-making, ensuring that technical solutions align with business goals

• Technology Selection and Integration: Provide recommendations on technology selection and integration, considering factors such as performance, scalability, security, accessibility, and maintainability

• Troubleshooting and Guidance: Apply deep technical expertise to troubleshoot issues, provide guidance to the development team, and drive the resolution of technical challenges

• Collaboration: Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, User Experience/User Interface (UX/UI) designers, and software developers, to define technical requirements and create robust and scalable architectures that meet business objectives

• Mentorship: Mentor and guide junior engineers, helping them enhance their technical skills and grow professionally through knowledge-sharing activities, technical training, and fostering a culture of learning within the team

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in large-scale software development. With 2+ years of experience in a technical lead role

• 7+ years of experience with developing applications/web services and cloud-native apps using technologies like React, Angular, Spring Boot, REST API, JPA, messaging and other tech stacks (open-source and proprietary)

• 5+ years of experience with agile development

• 3+ years experience with Oracle or MongoDB

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of designing and developing highly scalable Microservices, Webservices, and Rest API’s

• 5+ years of designing and developing in a Test-Driven Development environment

• 3+ years of experience with build and deploying services in CI/CD with using tools like Jenkins, CircleCI

• 3+ years of experience with source management tools like GitHub, GitLab

• 3+ years of experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)

• 3+ years of