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
CVS Health is looking for a hands-on Senior Manager – Software Development Engineering to lead application delivery, production stability, and engineering execution for critical digital and enterprise platforms. This role combines people leadership, technical oversight, and cross-functional partnership to ensure applications are reliable, scalable, and aligned with business needs.
The Manager will oversee the full software development lifecycle, guide technical decision-making, and support a high-performing team focused on modernization, operational excellence, and continuous improvement. This leader will work closely with Product, Data, Infrastructure, and business partners to deliver integrated solutions that improve performance, reduce risk, and support innovation across the organization.
Key Responsibilities
- Own application stability and risk mitigation by proactively identifying vulnerabilities, leading root cause analysis, and driving timely resolution of complex production issues.
- Oversee the full software development lifecycle, including requirements, design, development, testing, deployment, and ongoing support.
- Partner cross-functionally with Product, Data, Infrastructure, and business stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions.
- Drive delivery planning, technical execution, and dependency management to maintain efficient and reliable implementation timelines.
- Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies, frameworks, and engineering best practices to improve application performance and team productivity.
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of engineers, fostering a culture of accountability, technical excellence, collaboration, and knowledge sharing.
- Establish measurable engineering and operational goals aligned with business outcomes.
- Provide hands-on technical direction and architecture guidance to support application modernization and long-term platform health.
- Ensure governance, risk management, and compliance, including audit readiness and adherence to enterprise policies (e.g., SOX, security standards)
• Drive delivery excellence across cross-functional initiatives, ensuring ensuring high-quality, timely, and cost-effective outcomes.
Required Qualifications
• 5+ years of SAP CAR experience including 2+ years experience of leading projects and managing direct reports.
• Experience supporting vendor hosted Finance applications.
• Experience supporting or partnering with Finance organization and other business areas.
• Experience managing a retail finance application portfolio in a regulated environment.
• Strong understanding of compliance, audit, and risk management frameworks.
• Experience managing budgets for the portfolio.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Adept at collaboration and teamwork.
• Mastery of problem solving and decision making skills
• Mastery of growth mindset (agility and developing yourself and others) skills.
Preferred Qualifications
• Experience with cloud platforms and modern application architectures.
• Demonstrated experience leading transformation and modernization efforts.
Education
Bachelor's degree preferred/specialized training/relevant professional qualification.
Pay Range
The typical pay range for this role is:
$106,605.00 - $260,590.00
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
- 5+ years of SAP CAR experience
- 2+ years leading projects
- 2+ years managing direct reports
- Experience supporting vendor-hosted Finance applications
- Experience supporting or partnering with Finance and other business organizations
- Experience managing a retail finance application portfolio in a regulated environment
- Strong understanding of compliance, audit, and risk management frameworks
- Experience managing portfolio budgets
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Collaboration and teamwork skills
- Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills
- Growth mindset, agility, and experience developing yourself and others
- Bachelor's degree, specialized training, or relevant professional qualification
- Experience with cloud platforms and modern application architectures
- Experience leading transformation and modernization efforts
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.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage includes medical, dental, and vision with HSA-eligible options, free preventive care, virtual care, and access to MinuteClinic services. Mental-health resources such as counseling support are emphasized, and coverage is often considered solid for full-time colleagues.
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Retirement Support — A dollar-for-dollar 401(k) match up to 5% after one year and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan are consistently highlighted in Total Rewards materials. Feedback suggests retirement programs are a meaningful strength within the overall package.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing offerings include up to 20 no-cost counseling sessions per issue, backup care, tuition assistance, and substantial in-store discounts, alongside broader wellness tools. These everyday perks expand value beyond base pay and can be especially meaningful for full-time schedules.
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.
