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Requisition Job Description

CVS Health is looking for a Staff Software Development Engineer to drive technical strategy and execution within the Client Data Exchange Solutions (CDES) space. This individual will lead project teams across a broad and evolving technology landscape, spanning legacy IBMi AS400 systems, cloud platforms, and nextgeneration agentic AI/ML frameworks.

This highvisibility role is ideal for a technical leader who thrives in crossfunctional environments and strategic problem solving. You will collaborate directly with senior business leaders, Product Managers, and Engineering teams to enable innovation, modernize platforms, and help shape our move toward AIdriven capabilities.

**We will consider remote US for the right candidate

Key Responsibilities

• Shape and drive enterprisescale technical vision and longterm architecture strategy, influencing outcomes across multiple teams and platforms.
• Establish, evolve, and champion technical standards, engineering best practices, and governance to ensure consistency, quality, and scalability across the organization.
• Serve as a trusted technical partner to Product, Architecture, and business stakeholders to solve complex, crosscutting problems and deliver durable solutions.
• Rapidly build deep domain expertise to provide strong technical direction, thought leadership, and guidance to senior engineers and technical leads.
• Tackle and decompose highly ambiguous and complex technical problems, translating them into actionable architectures and execution plans.
• Lead the design and delivery of complex distributed systems, including APIs, microservices, CI/CD pipelines, and realtime streaming solutions on cloud platforms such as Azure and GCP.
• Provide handson technical leadership across design and implementation, setting a high bar for code quality, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Evaluate and introduce emerging technologies, architectural patterns, and frameworks to advance platform modernization and futureready capabilities.
• Lead AI/ML solution design and adoption for enterprise use cases, balancing innovation with reliability and integration across existing legacy systems.
• Guide model experimentation, training, evaluation, and optimization while accounting for architectural constraints and enterprise readiness.
• Own system quality endtoend, overseeing design reviews, technical reviews, testing strategies, and production readiness to ensure resilient, highquality outcomes.
• Drive improvements in automated testing and quality engineering practices to reduce manual effort and increase delivery velocity across legacy and modern platforms.
• Contribute to and influence enterprise technical roadmaps, ensuring alignment with broader CVS Health modernization and AI initiatives.
• Define, refine, and maintain technologyspecific operating procedures and engineering playbooks to support scalable execution.
• Lead complex initiatives and actively mentor engineers, raising the technical bar and fostering a culture of ownership, learning, and engineering excellence.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in software/data product delivery, including designing and deploying production-ready systems.
• 5+ years of experience in ETL/ELT development.
• 5+ years enterprise/web/cloud applications software development experience on Azure/GCP
• 3+ years of experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins).
• Proficiency in modern programming languages (Java, Python, FastAPI, Go).
• Experience with relational (PostgreSQL, Azure SQL) and NoSQL databases (Cosmos DB).
• Experience with messaging systems (Apache Kafka, MQ).
• 3+ years of experience leading software development projects and mentoring developers.
• Experience leveraging AIassisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude, Windsurf), reflecting advanced AI maturity and modern software engineering practices.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong grasp of software delivery practices and agile methodologies.
• Experience leading large-scale technical programs with end-to-end planning.
• Proven ability to make informed decisions quickly and take ownership of services at scale.
• Health care industry domain knowledge
• Experience with legacy systems and technologies including iBMI(AS/400), DB2, RPG and COBOL.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Computer Information Systems, or related field

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors. This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above. This position also includes an award target in the company's equity award program.

Our people fuel our future. Our teams reflect the customers, patients, members and communities we serve and we are committed to fostering a workplace where every colleague feels valued and that they belong.

Great benefits for great people

We take pride in offering a comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits that reflects our commitment to our colleagues and their families.

Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments.

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