CVS Health-posted 3 months ago
$144,200 - $288,400/Yr
Full-time • Senior
Buffalo Grove, IL
5,001-10,000 employees
Ambulatory Health Care Services

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. The Principal Software Development Engineer, reporting to the Executive Director Software Engineering, will work with High Visibility Enterprise teams to develop and execute Enterprise Solution Strategy. As a Principal Engineer, you will be directly developing and landing Specialty dispensing pharmacy Initiatives. This lead technical role will compile, research technologies across the organization into one cohesive Technical Roadmap and in addition, will create Proof of Concepts that will improve projects that will address our customer challenges. Furthermore, the Principal Engineer role 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. This is the one of the most senior technical positions in a ~100+ person development organization focused on Prescription Dispensing. The incumbent will be a seasoned technologist AND have the executive skills to lead others, communicate with exceptional clarity, and develop culture. While the role has no direct staff, it is a member of the leadership team. The role is equal parts technical and employee organizational. CVS Specialty Dispensing supports 20+ front end and backend pharmacies.

  • Establish and ensure adherence to technical direction, standards, guidelines, and methodology for use of specified technologies in the department.
  • Lead the Technical Advisory council that performs application architectural reviews on department initiatives.
  • Partner with teams and serve as subject matter expert to provide benchmarked solutions to multiple, complex technical projects/initiatives within own area of expertise.
  • Organize cross-departmental application architectural solutions.
  • Influence the technical standards and tool selection for the entire company.
  • Collaborate with Pharmacy Tower Architecture and Enterprise Architecture for integrated infrastructure designs.
  • Vendor technology evaluation and influence.
  • Work with external development firms to evaluate the strength of their platforms as candidates for selection to be added to CVS' environment.
  • Architect for backward/forward compatibility and insulation from the shortcomings of vendor software.
  • Develop and improve strategic technical direction for functional areas.
  • Maintain the departmental strategic multi-year roadmap and author new additions to it.
  • Align with the Enterprise technology roadmap and extend it to include technology useful to the Specialty department.
  • Use quantitative measures to guide architectural priorities.
  • Engage senior technical and business leaders in the development of the technical roadmap then present the results.
  • Keep abreast of technological trends in the industry and determine if useful and/or feasible (i.e. financial impact) and make recommendations to the organization.
  • Build the business case for new tools and drive the funding process.
  • Lead Proof Of Concept (POC) initiatives to evaluate technologies.
  • Manage the integration, cultural adoption, and transition of new technologies/techniques.
  • Lead matrixed application Technical Leads in the development and implementation of application standards through all parts of the Specialty Dispensing architectural stack.
  • Facilitate experts in a variety of disciplines to work on how methodologies and standards will be defined.
  • Act as the most senior technical contributor on strategic initiatives.
  • Engaged in a multi-million dollar, multi-year dispensing pharmacy system creation.
  • Identify necessary process changes for the department and methodically implement them.
  • Lead the department's DevSecOps maturity journey.
  • Progress the Unit and QA Test Automation processes in collaboration with the Quality Assurance organization to 'shift left'.
  • Select and implement the tooling for the Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment pipeline across all technology stacks.
  • 10+ years of hands-on information technology experience in systems analysis, application design, application development, and application program development with leading teams.
  • 7+ years of development experience in Java, Python, Spring Boot and some hand-on working knowledge of JavaScript, AngularJS, and/or NodeJS.
  • 5+ years of experience in building or leading large-scale applications.
  • 5+ years of hands-on experience with enterprise cloud initiatives and solutions with cloud computing technologies and have a track record developing in GCP/AWS on a public cloud environment.
  • 5+ years of experience in managing stakeholder's requirements, and technical solutions.
  • 5+ years of designing and developing modern microservices and cost-effective APIs.
  • 3+ years of software development experience, with a strong emphasis on AI technologies, particularly Generative AI and Large Language Models and familiarity with AI/ML frameworks and libraries (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn).
  • 3+ years of experience in one or more of the following DevOps tools: Kubernetes, Argo, GIT, Jenkins, Maven, JUnit, Docker, JMeter, Antifactory.
  • 3+ year experience with Kafka or open-source distributions.
  • 3+ years of experience working on CI/CD Pipeline automation.
  • Experience working with distributed teams, working across multiple time zones and geographical locations.
  • Experience researching of technical environments.
  • Health and wellness domain experience.
  • Hands on experience working as full stack development when needed AngularJS, JavaScript, Oracle and other modern database like NOSQL.
  • Strong understanding of Generative AI concepts and techniques, including but not limited to: Natural Language Processing(NLP), Text generation and summarization, Conversational AI and chatbots.
  • Hands on experience developing user-facing features and/or applications.
  • Ability to influence and inspire teams to align technical direction.
  • Ability to create and execute on roadmaps that consider both progress and innovation as well as the need to scale reliably.
  • Have contributed to open-source technology and or developed any patents.
  • Ability to learn/work with emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions in the Cloud/IT technology space.
  • Ability to collaborate across organizational boundaries, build relationships, and achieve broader organizational goals.
  • Affordable medical plan options, a 401(k) plan (including matching company contributions), and an employee stock purchase plan.
  • No-cost programs for all colleagues including wellness screenings, tobacco cessation and weight management programs, confidential counseling and financial coaching.
  • Benefit solutions that address the different needs and preferences of our colleagues including paid time off, flexible work schedules, family leave, dependent care resources, colleague assistance programs, tuition assistance, retiree medical access and many other benefits depending on eligibility.
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