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Staff Software Development Engineer

AT CVS Health
CVS Health

Staff Software Development Engineer

Wellesley, MA

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Position Summary

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Our Consumer Experience and Analytics organization, within CVS Health's, Data, Digital, Analytics, Technology (DDAT) organization, is seeking a Staff Software engineer you will be accountable for enabling strategic, high volume, high impact, and complex technical integrations. This role will lead a team of engineers for Solutions Engineering, Integration Engineering and Engagement Management. The focus for the team is managing engagement, developing highly scalable & future proofed solutions and end to end implementation. The technical and product acumen for integration, combined with solid collaboration, innovation and alignment mindset is necessary. This role is highly visible in the organization and involves frequent interactions with leaders across multiple business units, Infrastructure, PMO and Operations teams. It also requires extensive interfacing with integration consumers. The ideal candidate is enthusiastic about technology, great customer & product experience, active prioritization of work and people development. Clear desire to innovate and delivering on commitments will help fit in to the team culture. This role requires EXCELLENT coalition-building skills, broad technical knowledge, great communication skills, and strategic thinking.
  • Proven leader with the demonstrated ability to create technical solutions in large organizations with complex business requirements and constraints.
  • Strong ability to work with multiple stakeholders, including Business, Product, Engineering and platform team members to influence the application data-flow design and extensible product platform architecture.
  • Takes a disciplined approach to software development and problem-solving; excels at breaking down large problems into multi-step plans in an Agile development environment.
  • A systems problem solver, able to move fluidly between high-level abstract thinking and detailed implementation.
  • Experience with various types of software architectures including Micro Frontend/Microservice architecture and drive large solutions across multiple applications.
  • Possesses broad technology knowledge (cloud, enterprise applications, microservices, data analytics, networking, data storage systems, APIs, large-scale systems).
  • Good understanding of ADA and other regulatory compliances including PCI, PII, and PHI.
  • Excellent collaboration, influencing, negotiation, coaching and coalition-building skills.
  • Excels at building relationships and has top-notch communication and evangelism skills.
  • Passionate about technology with a very high technical aptitude.
Responsibilities Include:
  • Design, support and deploy mechanisms to enhance, refine, and deliver the architecture vision.
  • Collaborate with Project Managers and technical directors to provision estimates, develop overall implementation solution plan, and serve as a lead as required.
  • Develop frameworks, standards & reference material for architecture and associated products.
  • Manage the architecture governance activities associated with ensuring compliance within organization.
  • Investigate and come up w/ plans for technology integrations and lead the building of POCs to validate technical hypothesis and provide reference architectural solutions.
  • Develops solutions that are well engineered, flexible, resilient, operable, maintainable, and can be delivered on schedule. Ensures a balance between tactical and strategic technology solutions.
  • Excellent collaboration, influencing, evangelization, negotiation, coaching, mentoring, and coalition-building skills. Ability to work with persons at all levels, from the most junior person to VP levels, in all job functions (e.g. product, platform, developers, DevOps).
  • Influence the need to put the user at the center of everything we do, advocate for them, protect their data (a.k.a. security). Ensure that all PII & PHI data is handled in a secure manner and that Architectural solutions account for threat vectors.
  • Provide Subject Matter Expert (SME) oversight and development support on future application updates and maintenance.
  • Mentor and coach architects/engineers and seek opportunity to bring in continuous improvements.
  • Ensure all Non-Functional Requirements (e.g., performance, availability and fail-over, scalability, security, etc.) are properly articulated, and work with all parties to guarantee that the software products that are delivered meet these objectives
  • Analyze current architecture and develop opportunities for improvements in alignment with industry best practices
  • Work with internal and external stake holders to arrive at optimal solutions.

Required Qualifications
  • 7+ years of experience developing middleware integration solution or architecting large scale federated systems.
  • 5+ Experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs that are easy to use, scalable and secure.
  • 5+ years of experience with Cloud Platform like Azure, GCP and Microservices.
  • 7+ years of software industry experience with 4+ years in management of technical, customer facing applications.
  • 5+ Experience with micro-services architecture and designing RESTful APIs, real-time data streaming that facilitate a superior UX or simplify systems integration.
  • 7+ Experience with RDBMS and/or NoSQL databases. Understands the benefits and trade-offs of both. Familiar with normalization and denormalization, sharding, and other data-centric patterns.
  • Excellent communications and presentation skills with the ability to communicate effectively in visual, verbal, and written form to teams, clients, and leadership.
  • Ability to manage multiple competing priorities with minimal supervision. Self-directed.

Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience building and operating large scale distributed systems.
  • Ability to learn quickly and adapt to change requirements.
  • Experience with SAFE practices or able to work in SAFE practices and agile methodologies.
  • Experience related to security oriented projects.
  • Exposure to CI/CD and DevOps.
  • Health care industry experience.

Education
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a closely related discipline, or an equivalent combination of formal education and experience.
  • Master's degree is a plus
Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

$142,140.00 - $284,280.00

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.

In addition to your compensation, enjoy the rewards of an organization that puts our heart into caring for our colleagues and our communities. The Company offers a full range of medical, dental, and vision benefits. Eligible employees may enroll in the Company's 401(k) retirement savings plan, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan is also available for eligible employees. The Company provides a fully-paid term life insurance plan to eligible employees, and short-term and long term disability benefits. CVS Health also offers numerous well-being programs, education assistance, free development courses, a CVS store discount, and discount programs with participating partners. As for time off, Company employees enjoy Paid Time Off ("PTO") or vacation pay, as well as paid holidays throughout the calendar year. Number of paid holidays, sick time and other time off are provided consistent with relevant state law and Company policies.

For more detailed information on available benefits, please visit Benefits | CVS Health

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 11/29/2024

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.

Client-provided location(s): Wellesley, MA, USA
Job ID: CVS-R0431567
Employment Type: Other

Perks and Benefits

  • Health and Wellness

    • Health Insurance
    • Dental Insurance
    • Vision Insurance
    • Life Insurance
    • HSA
    • HSA With Employer Contribution
    • Pet Insurance
    • Mental Health Benefits
  • Parental Benefits

    • Fertility Benefits
    • Adoption Assistance Program
    • Family Support Resources
  • Work Flexibility

    • Flexible Work Hours
    • Remote Work Opportunities
    • Hybrid Work Opportunities
  • Vacation and Time Off

    • Paid Vacation
    • Paid Holidays
    • Personal/Sick Days
  • Financial and Retirement

    • 401(K) With Company Matching
  • Professional Development

    • Tuition Reimbursement
  • Diversity and Inclusion

    • Employee Resource Groups (ERG)
    • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program