Principal Software Development Engineer

CVS Health•Richardson, TX

21h

About The Position

We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time. As a Principal Engineer/Architect/Lead Director with Enterprise Product Acceleration, you will participate in an Agile Programming Product Team to build high quality, usable products for customers and stakeholders. You will help educate both business and technology personnel on the development process as well as lead products from discovery and framework-through iterative development and delivery while maintaining a user-centered approach in design perspective and practice. A firm understanding of Reat, Python, Java and API development principles and agile methodologies is crucial for success in the role.

Requirements

15+ years of development experience
Experience working with enterprise solution delivery
Experience working in a Scrum iterative delivery, using Agile concepts such as Sprint planning, CI/CD
Experience with front end development using React, React TypeScript, React JS
Experience in building backend functionality using Python, API Forge, Rest API
Experience in utilizing AI tools such as Copilot, Cursor, Vertex AI

Nice To Haves

Experience in a J2EE development environment, FAST API
Experience with emerging cloud platform technologies such as: AWS Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, GKE, Google DBs (Bigquery, Spanner, BigTable) or other PaaS technologies
Experience with AI tools such as Cursor, Copilot, Vertex AI, will be a plus

Responsibilities

Lead the development of strategical and tactical visions for the Aetna Claims & Financials team and systems architecture, including plans for merging each distinct product area into the greater product line/platform
Unify system architecture and design around the road map and strategic vision of each product as well as the organization as a whole
Facilitate the design, development, and implementation of technical solutions to address sustainability, availability, quality, performance, data integrity, and stability
Evaluate and recommend tools, technologies, and processes by conducting POCs and vendor evaluations to ensure the highest quality products which follow industry standards and open architectures wherever practical
Collaborate and coordinate across the products, external IT architecture, application development teams, and centralized infrastructure teams to enable product teams to integrate with enterprise systems and infrastructure to meet the business/product goals
Understand requirements and constraints for key architectural drivers
Drive toward shared architectures that promote re-use and facilitate integration with cross lab products and CVS Health enterprise systems using industry standards
Mature the Processes and Engineering Practices of the products in coordination with Leads and anchors
Provide architectural blueprints, reference architectures, and technical guidance to the Product Development team
Nurture Cloud-Native expertise internally to drive the adoption of Cloud Native principles and techniques
Facilitate, influence, and persuade architectural and design decisions that impact product developments
Dive into the code to suggest ways to improve the code quality or help with troubleshooting production issues
Recommend tools and processes that will increase efficiency, quality, and morale within the product development organization
Participate and assist in providing inputs to scoping deliverables
Participate and assist in Discovery and Framing sessions to produce conceptual architecture and high-level data models
Participate in product ceremonies such as IPM on need basis to assist in flawless execution assigned products
Maintain effective working relationships across various roles such as leads, anchors, engineers, business and IT Product Managers to act as one team