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
Our Utilization Management Analytics Engineering team within the Analytics & Behavior Change (A&BC) division of our Data, Digital, Analytics, Technology (DDAT) organization is seeking a full-stack Principal Software Development Engineer. We are looking for passionate, driven individuals who are ready to use their expertise to guide a team of analytics engineers (UI, software, ML) who support Aetna's UM Data Science, product and Engineering teams. Our work supports operational workflows with our healthcare benefits business, supporting clinical decision makers by offering tools that ensure that the most critical information about our members and their healthcare journey is easily accessible and interpretable when needed.
This technical leadership role will help guide a broad technical portfolio of software and machine learning assets that ensure our clinical teams can focus on the complex work of applying their subject matter expertise to ensure the right outcomes for our members. As the healthcare landscape evolves and changes, our team’s work is a crucial part of the overall CVS Health mission: transforming care to drive superior health outcomes and a seamless patient and consumer experience.
As a Principal SDE, you will be responsible for building best-in-class full-stack real time applications that integrate advanced analytics capabilities (predictive models, LLMs, vector search) into complex real time applications built within the Google Cloud Platform. You will work on cutting-edge products, leveraging your expertise in cloud technologies, software architecture. You will join a high-caliber engineering team dedicated to delivering impact quickly while ensuring our code base and architecture are constantly maturing, allowing us to iterate quickly while we explore bold technical solutions to incredibly complex problems, and then pivot to scaling execution across the lives of millions.
Required Qualifications
8+ years of software industry experience with 4+ years as a technical leader.
8+ years involved in requirements analysis, estimation within a formal SDLC.
8+ years of mastery with development languages (Python, Java).
5+ years leading technical architecture initiatives that impact many value streams.
5+ years designing and developing real time distributed systems to handle huge loads.
5+ years architecting solutions in any major cloud services, Preferable GCP.
5+ years with micro-services architecture, APIs, real-time system integrations.
3+ years of building Machine learning models and deploying them in production environment along with real time application integration.
2+ years of hands on experience building LLM pipelines using OCR and various LLM models like Claude, Gemini, GPT 4, GPT 4.0 etc.
2+ years of hands of experience on building UI components (React JS, Angular)
Preferred Qualifications
Experience building and operating large-scale real-time applications
Knowledge in GCP architecture, commands and experience designing & optimizing ML, software and data engineering patterns
Knowledge on best practices of current LLM models in the market.
Ability to manage multiple competing priorities with minimal supervision. Self-directed.
Excellent communications and presentation skills with the ability to communicate effectively in visual, verbal, and written form to teams, clients, and leadership.
Strong architectural skills, including diagramming
Software or analytics experience within the healthcare industry.
Experience in building large scale CI/CD and DevOps pipelines.
Experience related to security-oriented projects.
Education:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a closely related discipline, or an equivalent combination of formal education and experience.
Master's degree is a plus
Pay Range
The typical pay range for this role is:
$144,200.00 - $288,400.00
This 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. This position also includes an award target in the company’s equity award program.
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 offering a comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits that reflects our commitment to our colleagues and their families.
Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments.
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.
Skills Required
- 8+ years of software industry experience with 4+ years as a technical leader
- 8+ years involved in requirements analysis, estimation within a formal SDLC
- 8+ years of mastery with development languages (Python, Java)
- 5+ years leading technical architecture initiatives that impact many value streams
- 5+ years designing and developing real time distributed systems to handle huge loads
- 5+ years architecting solutions in any major cloud services, Preferable GCP
- 5+ years with micro-services architecture, APIs, real-time system integrations
- 3+ years of building Machine learning models and deploying them in production
- 2+ years of hands on experience building LLM pipelines with various models
- 2+ years of hands of experience on building UI components (React JS, Angular)
CVS Health Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about CVS Health and has not been reviewed or approved by CVS Health.
-
Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is positioned as comprehensive for benefits-eligible colleagues, including medical, dental, and vision with free preventive care and access to virtual care and select no-cost MinuteClinic services. Mental health support is also highlighted with no-cost confidential counseling sessions per issue.
-
Retirement Support — Retirement benefits include a 401(k) with a dollar-for-dollar match up to 5% after meeting service and hours requirements. Ownership programs are also offered through an employee stock purchase plan with a stated purchase discount.
-
Pay Growth & Progression — A companywide minimum wage floor establishes a baseline that is framed as a positive starting point in some roles and markets. Unionized or high-cost areas are described as having clearer wage scales and step-ups that can materially lift pay over time.
CVS Health Insights
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.
_0.png)
