Senior Manager – Platform Engineering

CVS Health

Senior Manager - Platform Engineering leading a team at CVS Health to build digital healthcare platforms. Driving operational excellence and fostering team growth and collaboration with product and architecture teams.

Posted 5/19/2026full-timeRemote • Massachusetts • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $130,295 - $260,590 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureGoogle Cloud Platform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Leading a team of engineers, including hiring, coaching, career development, and performance management
Setting technical direction and driving architectural decisions for your team's domain, balancing innovation with reliability and maintainability
Partnering with Product and Architecture to define roadmaps, decompose initiatives into deliverables, and ensure alignment across teams
Driving operational excellence through investment in observability, incident response, SLOs, and production readiness practices
Establishing and evolving engineering processes that enable your team to deliver high-quality software at pace — CI/CD, code review, testing strategies, and release management
Building a culture of ownership, psychological safety, and continuous learning within your team
Managing delivery across multiple workstreams, removing blockers, managing dependencies, and communicating status and risk to leadership
Contributing to the broader engineering organization through participation in technical governance, architecture reviews, and cross-team initiatives
Championing developer experience and engineering productivity improvements that benefit teams beyond your own
Staying current with industry trends and technologies, evaluating their applicability to our platform and advocating for strategic adoption where appropriate

Requirements

What you’ll need

7+ years of professional software engineering experience
5+ years of experience operating production services at scale on AWS, GCP, or Azure, with a focus on reliability, performance, and security
3+ years of experience directing or managing engineering teams including performance growth, capacity planning, and other related management tasks

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

software engineeringCI/CDcode reviewtesting strategiesrelease managementperformance managementcapacity planningincident responseobservabilitySLOs

Soft Skills

leadershipcoachingcareer developmentcommunicationteam managementproblem-solvingcollaborationpsychological safetycontinuous learninginnovation