We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time.
Position Summary
If you’re eager to make a real impact in the health care industry through your own meaningful contributions, explore a role in technology with CVS Health. Our journey calls for technical innovators and data visionaries: come help us pave the way.
At CVS Health, we possess an extensive repository of healthcare data that spans over 150 million individuals, providing an unparalleled foundation for ambitious Data Engineers. In this role, you will engage with complex business challenges, harnessing modern tools and technologies to securely store, process, transform, and enrich terabyte to petabyte scale healthcare data. Your work will underpin data-driven business decisions and contribute to our mission of delivering industry-best data products / software with a customer-first mindset and team-oriented approach.
As a Data Engineer, you will be instrumental in designing, developing, and maintaining optimal data pipelines to assemble large and intricate datasets, catering to the business requirements of various CVS lines of business. Collaborating closely with teams, you will craft tools to provide actionable insights and integrate them with consumer touchpoints.
As a Data Engineer, you will:
- Understands the Enterprise data systems and acquires knowledge on the relevant processes need for project delivery.
- Participate in project estimation process and provide inputs to Tech Lead.
- Participate in Agile scrum activities/project status meetings on regular basis.
- Participate in User story grooming/Design discussion with technical lead.
- Analyzes complex Data structure from disparate data sources and design large scale data engineering pipeline.
- Uses strong programming skills to build robust data pipelines for ETL (Extract / Transform / Load) processes, designs database systems and develops tools for data processing.
- Perform all Data Engineering job activities EDW/ETL project development/testing and deployment activities.
- Work closely with the developers on the ETL Jobs/Pipelines development.
- Create the Project process/automation by integrating the involved components.
- Documents data engineering processes, workflows, and systems for reference and knowledge-sharing purposes.
- Implements data quality checks and validation processes to ensure the accuracy, completeness, and consistency of the data.
- Be a team player and work with team members for Business solution and implementation.
- Proficiency in SQL optimization and performance tuning for large-scale datasets
As leaders in healthcare, our analytics and engineering teams deliver innovative solutions to business problems by collaborating with cross-functional teams in a dynamic and agile environment. You will be part of a team that values collaboration and encourages innovative thinking at all levels. You will be intellectually challenged to solve problems associated with large scale complex, structured and unstructured data, that will allow you to grow your technical skills and engineering expertise.
Required Qualifications
- 3+ years of Experience in executing Data warehousing ETL projects.
- 3+ years of Experience with Python
- 3+ years of Experience with SQL
- 3+ years of experience with ETL/ELT, and building high-volume batch/realtime data pipelines
- 3+ years of hands-on Experience with bash shell scripts, UNIX utilities & UNIX Commands
- 3+ years of hands-on Experience with a major cloud platform (GCP, AWS, Azure)
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with complex systems and solving challenging analytical problems
- Strong collaboration and communication skills within and across teams
- Knowledge of data visualization and reporting tools
- Implementation experience in building real time or near real time data pipelines using pub/sub or change data capture
- Knowledge on AI/ML model building using various libraries in Python along with data wrangling/data preparation experience
- Experience with Git, CI/CD pipeline, and other DevOps principles/best practices
- Experience with bash shell scripts, UNIX utilities & UNIX Commands
- Understanding of software development methodologies including waterfall and agile.
- Ability to leverage multiple tools and programming languages to analyze and manipulate data sets from disparate data sources
- Knowledge of API development, microservices and SOA
- Experience with schema design and dimensional data modeling
- Google Professional Data Engineer Certification
- Formal SAFe and/or agile experience. Previous healthcare experience and domain knowledge
- Experience designing, building, and maintaining data processing systems
- Experience architecting and building data warehouse and data lakes
- Experience with GCP services such as BigQuery, Dataflow, Cloud Storage, and Tidal, along with building and managing DAG‑based workflows
- Experience in implementing data governance, data quality frameworks, and metadata management
Education
Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, Data Analytics, Machine Learning, or related field required. Master’s Degree preferred.
Anticipated Weekly Hours
40Time Type
Full timePay Range
The typical pay range for this role is:
$72,100.00 - $144,200.00This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors. This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above.
Our people fuel our future. Our teams reflect the customers, patients, members and communities we serve and we are committed to fostering a workplace where every colleague feels valued and that they belong.
Great benefits for great people
We take pride in our comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits – investing in the physical, emotional and financial wellness of our colleagues and their families to help them be the healthiest they can be. In addition to our competitive wages, our great benefits include:
Affordable medical plan options, a 401(k) plan (including matching company contributions), and an employee stock purchase plan.
No-cost programs for all colleagues including wellness screenings, tobacco cessation and weight management programs, confidential counseling and financial coaching.
Benefit solutions that address the different needs and preferences of our colleagues including paid time off, flexible work schedules, family leave, dependent care resources, colleague assistance programs, tuition assistance, retiree medical access and many other benefits depending on eligibility.
For more information, visit https://jobs.cvshealth.com/us/en/benefits
We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 02/10/2026Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.
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What We Do
CVS Health is the leading health solutions company that delivers care in ways no one else can. We reach people in more ways and improve the health of communities across America through our local presence, digital channels and our nearly 300,000 dedicated colleagues – including more than 40,000 physicians, pharmacists, nurses and nurse practitioners.
Wherever and whenever people need us, we help them with their health – whether that’s managing chronic diseases, staying compliant with their medications, or accessing affordable health and wellness services in the most convenient ways. We help people navigate the health care system – and their personal health care – by improving access, lowering costs and being a trusted partner for every meaningful moment of health. And we do it all with heart, each and every day.
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