
Staff Software Development Engineer – Cloud & AI
CVS Health
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Buffalo Grove • Arizona • Illinois • United States
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Salary
💰 $130,295 - $260,590 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Shape and drive enterprise‑scale technical vision and long‑term architecture strategy, influencing outcomes across multiple teams and platforms.
- Establish, evolve, and champion technical standards, engineering best practices, and governance to ensure consistency, quality, and scalability across the organization.
- Serve as a trusted technical partner to Product, Architecture, and business stakeholders to solve complex, cross‑cutting problems and deliver durable solutions.
- Rapidly build deep domain expertise to provide strong technical direction, thought leadership, and guidance to senior engineers and technical leads.
- Tackle and decompose highly ambiguous and complex technical problems, translating them into actionable architectures and execution plans.
- Lead the design and delivery of complex distributed systems, including APIs, microservices, CI/CD pipelines, and real‑time streaming solutions on cloud platforms such as Azure and GCP.
- Provide hands‑on technical leadership across design and implementation, setting a high bar for code quality, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
- Evaluate and introduce emerging technologies, architectural patterns, and frameworks to advance platform modernization and future‑ready capabilities.
- Lead AI/ML solution design and adoption for enterprise use cases, balancing innovation with reliability and integration across existing legacy systems.
- Guide model experimentation, training, evaluation, and optimization while accounting for architectural constraints and enterprise readiness.
- Own system quality end‑to‑end, overseeing design reviews, technical reviews, testing strategies, and production readiness to ensure resilient, high‑quality outcomes.
- Drive improvements in automated testing and quality engineering practices to reduce manual effort and increase delivery velocity across legacy and modern platforms.
- Contribute to and influence enterprise technical roadmaps, ensuring alignment with broader CVS Health modernization and AI initiatives.
- Define, refine, and maintain technology‑specific operating procedures and engineering playbooks to support scalable execution.
- Lead complex initiatives and actively mentor engineers, raising the technical bar and fostering a culture of ownership, learning, and engineering excellence.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in software/data product delivery, including designing and deploying production-ready systems.
- 5+ years of experience in ETL/ELT development.
- 5+ years enterprise/web/cloud applications software development experience on Azure/GCP
- 3+ years of experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins).
- Proficiency in modern programming languages (Java, Python, FastAPI, Go).
- Experience with relational (PostgreSQL, Azure SQL) and NoSQL databases (Cosmos DB).
- Experience with messaging systems (Apache Kafka, MQ).
- 3+ years of experience leading software development projects and mentoring developers.
- Experience leveraging AI‑assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude, Windsurf), reflecting advanced AI maturity and modern software engineering practices.
Benefits
- medical, dental, and vision coverage
- paid time off
- retirement savings options
- wellness programs
- other resources, based on eligibility
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
software deliveryETL developmentELT developmentcloud applications developmentCI/CDJavaPythonFastAPIGoPostgreSQL
Soft Skills
technical leadershipmentoringproblem-solvinginfluencingcommunicationcollaborationthought leadershipownershiplearningengineering excellence