Principal Software Development Engineer

at  CVS Health

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POSITION SUMMARY

As a Principal Software Engineer(Full Stack) in PCW Technology, you’ll combine your years of proven expertise with a never-ending quest to create innovative technology through solid engineering practices for the mission critical RxConnect Technology platform. You’ll be responsible for developing and deploying applications to the highest standards. With your deep knowledge of design, analytics, development, coding, testing, and application programming, you will be responsible to create best in class industry solutions, develop engineering frameworks to drive technology led innovation. Your passion and experience in one or more technology domains will help solve complex and mission critical problems, internally and externally. As a constant learner and early adopter, you’re already embracing leading-edge technologies and methodologies; your example encourages others to follow suit.

In addition to creating solutions for retail pharmacy Business workstreams, you’ll also work alongside our team of technologists to develop and execute RxConnect Modernization roadmap as Retail Pharmacy goes through a transformation of its own. We embrace a culture of experimentation and constantly strive for improvement and learning. You’ll work in a collaborative, trusting, thought-provoking environment-one that encourages diversity of thought and creative solutions that are in the best interests of our consumers and colleagues. This is an individual contributor role, reporting to Director, Product and Engineering -Retail Pharmacy IT systems. This position will have an opportunity to provide strategic leadership for creating software designs and development of our products and services, that leverage digital first, data-driven, advanced technology solutions.

• This position is open to multiple CVS locations for hybrid work model.

Job Responsibilities Include:

• Responsible for carrying out technology objectives for multiple technical areas or disciplines.
• Responsible for building frameworks, technical specs and implement design practices for the product development
• Leverages technical expertise and business knowledge to drive adoption and implementation of technical methods within teams in line with product development methodologies.
• Adoption and implementation of newer technologies and practices to solve business problems as well as strengthen product capabilities
• Partner with technical leaders within CVS Health and the open-source community and contribute to product strategy, frameworks, roadmap definition, and requirements-gathering.
• Implements innovative methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for projects, programs, and people in the solution of highly complex technical / business issues.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and deal with multiple priorities.
• Debug the critical problems which arise in production and execute effective solutions within the application and across multiple applications/systems
• Lead continuous learning and process improvement activities to improve design and overall engineering practices
• Provide thought leadership and build software solutions that deliver high impact business value and deliver customer delight (Principal)
• Lead the design and implementation of software solutions that are scalable, reliable, and maintainable
• Collaborate with a diverse cross functional team including business partners, Product Managers, and designers to define product requirements, direction and clarity
• Drive technical innovation and improvements of the design and architecture of software systems towards leading edge technologies and practices
• Define, develop, and drive software engineering best practices
• Perform technical due diligence and architectural assessments of third-party technologies and solutions
• Participate and drive decomposing a monolithic code base to decoupled services
• Document standards, best practices, and engineering artifacts so others can easily understand, build, and maintain best in class software systems
• Grow talent by participating in hiring and mentoring team members

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• The candidate will have a strong work ethic, be a self-starter, and be able to be highly productive in a dynamic, collaborative environment.
• This position offers broad exposure to all aspects of the company’s business, as well as significant interaction with business and product leaders. The candidate will be expected to have the following:
• 10+ years’ experience in systems analysis and application program development
• 5+ years of development experience in one or more of the following languages: Java, Nodejs, Python
• 5+ years of experience with Agile software development
• 3+ years’ experience in building Enterprise solutions and technical solutions
• 3+ years’ experience with AI/generative AI solutions and technologies
• 2+ year experience with Confluent Kafka, or open-source distributions
• 3+ years of experience with cloud computing technologies. Possess a track record developing in GCP/Azure or similar public cloud environment
• 2+ years of experience in a DevOps role worked on Kubernetes, Argo, GIT, Jenkins, Maven, JUnit, Docker, JMeter, Artifactory and also
• 2+ years of experience worked on CICD Pipeline automation

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

5+ years of experience working across research and engineering

• Experience working with distributed teams, working across multiple time zones and geographies.
• Experience in the health and wellness domain
• Experience working as full stack development when needed
• Experience developing colleague and user-facing features and/or apps.
• Ability to influence and inspire teams to align technical direction
• Ability to create and execute innovation roadmaps
• Have contributed to open-source technology and Developed 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.

EDUCATION

Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or a closely related discipline, or an equivalent combination of formal education and experience.

• Masters’ Degree Preferred

In addition to creating solutions for retail pharmacy Business workstreams, you’ll also work alongside our team of technologists to develop and execute RxConnect Modernization roadmap as Retail Pharmacy goes through a transformation of its own. We embrace a culture of experimentation and constantly strive for improvement and learning. You’ll work in a collaborative, trusting, thought-provoking environment-one that encourages diversity of thought and creative solutions that are in the best interests of our consumers and colleagues. This is an individual contributor role, reporting to Director, Product and Engineering -Retail Pharmacy IT systems. This position will have an opportunity to provide strategic leadership for creating software designs and development of our products and services, that leverage digital first, data-driven, advanced technology solutions.

• This position is open to multiple CVS locations for hybrid work model

Job Responsibilities Include:

• Responsible for carrying out technology objectives for multiple technical areas or disciplines.
• Responsible for building frameworks, technical specs and implement design practices for the product development
• Leverages technical expertise and business knowledge to drive adoption and implementation of technical methods within teams in line with product development methodologies.
• Adoption and implementation of newer technologies and practices to solve business problems as well as strengthen product capabilities
• Partner with technical leaders within CVS Health and the open-source community and contribute to product strategy, frameworks, roadmap definition, and requirements-gathering.
• Implements innovative methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for projects, programs, and people in the solution of highly complex technical / business issues.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and deal with multiple priorities.
• Debug the critical problems which arise in production and execute effective solutions within the application and across multiple applications/systems
• Lead continuous learning and process improvement activities to improve design and overall engineering practices
• Provide thought leadership and build software solutions that deliver high impact business value and deliver customer delight (Principal)
• Lead the design and implementation of software solutions that are scalable, reliable, and maintainable
• Collaborate with a diverse cross functional team including business partners, Product Managers, and designers to define product requirements, direction and clarity
• Drive technical innovation and improvements of the design and architecture of software systems towards leading edge technologies and practices
• Define, develop, and drive software engineering best practices
• Perform technical due diligence and architectural assessments of third-party technologies and solutions
• Participate and drive decomposing a monolithic code base to decoupled services
• Document standards, best practices, and engineering artifacts so others can easily understand, build, and maintain best in class software systems
• Grow talent by participating in hiring and mentoring team member