Staff Software Development Engineer (IBMi/AS400)

CVS Health•Buffalo Grove, IL

20h

About The Position

CVS Health’s Adjudication & Client Experience Engineering organization is seeking a highly skilled Software Development Engineer to join their Application Production Support Team, providing Level 1–3 support for critical myPBM business applications. This role is essential in ensuring the reliability, stability, and continuous improvement of systems that directly serve PBM (Pharmacy Benefit Management) business customers. The engineer will work closely with fellow engineers, product, design, and operational teams to triage, troubleshoot, and resolve daily production issues, addressing application incidents, identifying root causes, implementing permanent fixes, and driving process improvements. The position also involves facilitating break-fix for existing codebases to improve application stability, scalability, and performance, including designing and implementing new features, contributing to technical architecture, and advancing the engineering roadmap across adjudication and client experience systems. This role requires strong technical expertise, solid problem-solving skills, and effective collaboration in a high-demand production environment, guiding technical direction, contributing to engineering innovation, and ensuring successful delivery of high-quality digital solutions.

Requirements

7+ years of experience in application production support (Level 1–3), incident management, and troubleshooting of enterprise systems.
5 + years of experience in a technical lead role.
7+ years of experience with IBM i, i5/OS knowledge, RPG, RPGLE, CL, and DB2i, SQL, COBOL, COBOLLE, Synon and Aldon knowledge.
Familiarity with monitoring tools, logging frameworks, and IT operations processes.
Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.
Excellent analytical, communication, and problem‑solving skills.

Nice To Haves

Experience in healthcare, pharmacy benefits management, or similar regulated industries.
Experience with automation, monitoring, and incident management tools.
Experience with RxClaim or other PBM Adjudication system.
Knowledge of HA software and Replication Tools (DB2 Mirror, MIMIX, iTera, OMS, etc.)
Experience in AI-driven system health monitoring.

Responsibilities

Provide Level 1–3 application production support for Consumer Drive Healthcare business customers, including monitoring, incident resolution, and proactive system health checks.
Analyze and troubleshoot complex application and systems issues; perform root cause analysis and implement long-term corrective actions.
Collaborate with engineering, product, QA, operations, and business teams to ensure timely and accurate resolution of production incidents.
Recommend code fix, optimization, and improvements to the existing codebases to enhance system reliability, stability, and scalability.
Perform debugging, and validation across distributed application environments.
Participate in on-call rotations as needed to support critical production services.
Contribute to the technical roadmap, driving innovation and continuous improvement within the engineering ecosystem.
Document solutions, operational procedures, and knowledge-base articles to support cross-team learning and operational excellence.