Principal Engineer – Digital

CVS Health

Principal Engineer - Digital at CVS Health shaping digital architecture across mobile, web, and AI. Leading technical decisions impacting the health experience for millions.

Posted 6/7/2026full-timeRemote • Rhode Island • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $144,200 - $288,400 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AndroidAWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformiOSJavaScriptKotlinNext.jsReactSwiftTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define and own the end-to-end digital architecture strategy
Author and steward Architecture Decision Records that guide engineering decisions
Evaluate and validate major architectural choices
Identify and eliminate architectural debt proactively
Establish and enforce engineering standards, design principles, and best practices
Drive technology radar decisions
Define web architecture standards
Lead performance engineering for web
Govern third-party script strategy
Define the organization's AI architecture strategy
Identify AI solutioning opportunities across the digital product portfolio
Architect scalable, resilient cloud infrastructure
Define backend service architecture
Lead platform engineering efforts
Design and govern data architecture decisions
Lead digital security architecture
Define and enforce SAST, DAST, SCA, and container scanning standards
Own compliance architecture for HIPAA, SOC 2 Type II, and PCI-DSS

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years of software engineering experience, with organization-wide technical scope
5+ years of hands-on expertise in at least two of: native iOS (Swift/SwiftUI), native Android (Kotlin/Jetpack), or modern web (React/Next.js/TypeScript)
5+ years of cloud architecture experience (GCP, Azure or AWS) running production workloads at scale
5+ years of security engineering experience with real compliance exposure
3+ years of AI engineering experience: shipping production systems built on foundation models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or open-weight equivalents)
2+ years of hands-on experience building agentic AI systems using orchestration frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, or equivalent
2+ years of AI Delivery experience: designing and shipping AI/ML-powered products at production scale

Benefits

Comp & perks

medical, dental, and vision coverage
paid time off
retirement savings options
wellness programs

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Hard Skills & Tools

digital architecturearchitecture decision recordsperformance engineeringcloud infrastructurebackend service architecturedata architectureSASTDASTSCAcontainer scanning

Soft Skills

leadershipstrategic thinkingproblem-solvingcommunicationgovernance

Certifications

HIPAA complianceSOC 2 Type II compliancePCI-DSS compliance