Senior Manager – Software Development Engineering, AI

CVS Health

Senior Manager leading the AI LaunchPad platform engineering at CVS Health. Driving strategy, architecture, and delivery of enterprise-scale AI solutions.

Posted 5/14/2026full-timeRemote • Idaho, Montana, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $106,605 - $284,280 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformMicroservices

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Recruit, retain, and grow a high-performing team of AI and platform engineers.
Own the AI LaunchPad product and engineering roadmap — balancing immediate delivery commitments with long-term platform scalability.
Provide architectural oversight for agentic AI systems, RAG pipelines, LLM evaluation frameworks, and MLOps infrastructure.
Partner with HCD product, data, compliance, security, and business unit leaders to align the AI LaunchPad roadmap with enterprise priorities.
Drive end-to-end delivery of platform features — from design to production — using Agile/SAFe practices.
Evaluate and manage relationships with cloud providers (GCP, AWS, Azure) and AI vendors.
Ensure all AI systems built on the platform meet HIPAA, security, and regulatory requirements.

Requirements

What you’ll need

7+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years in an engineering management or technical lead role overseeing teams of 4 or more engineers.
Demonstrated experience architecting and delivering large-scale, enterprise AI/ML or data platforms — ideally serving thousands of users or multiple business units.
Technical depth in modern AI/ML infrastructure: cloud-native architectures (AWS, GCP, or Azure), MLOps, LLM platforms (Bedrock, Vertex AI, or equivalent), and agentic AI patterns.
Strong full-stack platform engineering background including microservices, serverless architectures, API design, authentication/authorization (OAuth, SSO, SAML), and CI/CD.
Proven ability to drive cross-functional alignment across product, engineering, data, security, and business stakeholders.
Experience defining and tracking engineering health metrics (DORA, SLOs, incident management) and driving operational excellence.
Excellent communication skills — able to present technical roadmaps and trade-offs to both executive audiences and engineering teams.

Benefits

Comp & perks

medical, dental, and vision coverage
paid time off
retirement savings options
wellness programs
other resources, based on eligibility

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Hard Skills & Tools

AI systems architectureMLOpscloud-native architecturemicroservicesserverless architectureAPI designauthenticationauthorizationCI/CDlarge-scale AI/ML platforms

Soft Skills

team leadershipcross-functional alignmentcommunication