[Remote] Staff Software Development Engineer (Cloud & AI)

About the Role

CVS Health is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Staff Software Development Engineer to join their team. This is a remote position open to candidates in the USA. The role focuses on driving technical strategy and execution within Client Data Exchange Solutions, with a strong emphasis on modernizing platforms and enabling AI-driven capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Shape and drive enterprise-scale technical vision and long-term architecture strategy, influencing outcomes across multiple teams and platforms.
• Establish, evolve, and champion technical standards, engineering best practices, and governance to ensure consistency, quality, and scalability across the organization.
• Serve as a trusted technical partner to Product, Architecture, and business stakeholders to solve complex, cross-cutting problems and deliver durable solutions.
• Rapidly build deep domain expertise to provide strong technical direction, thought leadership, and guidance to senior engineers and technical leads.
• Tackle and decompose highly ambiguous and complex technical problems, translating them into actionable architectures and execution plans.
• Lead the design and delivery of complex distributed systems, including APIs, microservices, CI/CD pipelines, and real-time streaming solutions on cloud platforms such as Azure and GCP.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership across design and implementation, setting a high bar for code quality, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Evaluate and introduce emerging technologies, architectural patterns, and frameworks to advance platform modernization and future-ready capabilities.
• Lead AI/ML solution design and adoption for enterprise use cases, balancing innovation with reliability and integration across existing legacy systems.
• Guide model experimentation, training, evaluation, and optimization while accounting for architectural constraints and enterprise readiness.
• Own system quality end-to-end, overseeing design reviews, technical reviews, testing strategies, and production readiness to ensure resilient, high-quality outcomes.
• Drive improvements in automated testing and quality engineering practices to reduce manual effort and increase delivery velocity across legacy and modern platforms.
• Contribute to and influence enterprise technical roadmaps, ensuring alignment with broader CVS Health modernization and AI initiatives.
• Define, refine, and maintain technology-specific operating procedures and engineering playbooks to support scalable execution.
• Lead complex initiatives and actively mentor engineers, raising the technical bar and fostering a culture of ownership, learning, and engineering excellence.

Skills and Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in software/data product delivery, including designing and deploying production-ready systems.
• 5+ years of experience in ETL/ELT development.
• 5+ years enterprise/web/cloud applications software development experience on Azure/GCP.
• 3+ years of experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins).
• Proficiency in modern programming languages (Java, Python, FastAPI, Go).
• Experience with relational (PostgreSQL, Azure SQL) and NoSQL databases (Cosmos DB).
• Experience with messaging systems (Apache Kafka, MQ).
• 3+ years of experience leading software development projects and mentoring developers.
• Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude, Windsurf), reflecting advanced AI maturity and modern software engineering practices.
• Strong grasp of software delivery practices and agile methodologies.
• Experience leading large-scale technical programs with end-to-end planning.
• Proven ability to make informed decisions quickly and take ownership of services at scale.
• Healthcare industry domain knowledge.
• Experience with legacy systems and technologies including iBMI(AS/400), DB2, RPG and COBOL.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Paid time off
• Retirement savings options
• Wellness programs
• Other resources

Company Overview

CVS Health is a health solutions company that provides integrated healthcare services to its members. Founded in 1963 and headquartered in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, USA, it employs over 10,000 people.

Company H1B Sponsorship

CVS Health has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.