Staff Software Development Engineer

At CVS Health, we’re building a world of health around every consumer and surrounding ourselves with dedicated colleagues who are passionate about transforming health care.

As the nation’s leading health solutions company, we reach millions of Americans through our local presence, digital channels and more than 300,000 purpose-driven colleagues – caring for people where, when and how they choose in a way that is uniquely more connected, more convenient and more compassionate. And we do it all with heart, each and every day.

Position Summary

It's a new day in health care. Combining CVS Health and Aetna was a transformative moment for our company and our industry, establishing CVS Health as the nation’s premier health innovation company. Through our health services, insurance plans, and community pharmacists we are pioneering a bold new approach to total health. Individual Profile and Preferences (IPP) functional area is part of Aetna Technology IT Delivery, aims to transform health and wellness via products that enable consumer engagement and a best-in- class experience. IPP functional area is responsible for enterprise strategy to maintain member preferences, privacy, profile, and consents. A key part of this area is to build customer centric services and platform, and underlying products to drive engagement and revolutionize health and wellness.

Join us as a Staff Software Development Engineer, also known as, Sr. Manager of Application Development within the Shared Services and Advanced Technology Delivery (SSATD) organization. As an Applications Development Senior Manager, with IBM ACE technical background, you will collaborate with both full-time employees and contracted cross-functional resources to execute IT project work throughout the various phases of the SDLC for several initiatives that will range in size and complexity.  You are responsible for managing one or more engineering scrum teams on their technical delivery, and support the techno-functional impact analysis, design & code construction activities associated with development of software releases for the Aetna Technology IT systems. Strong technical, functional, and interpersonal skills are key to perform this role successfully.  You will report to Application Domain Leader and collaborate with other tech leads, product teams, architects, business partners, and project managers to deliver Business change and innovation into our diverse technology suite of products, primarily IIB/ACE, ML or MongoDB, ODM, Cloud Components, KAFKA/MQ, JAVA, Microservices and springboot framework.   

As a Technical Lead of one or more scrum teams working with engineering teams and various other partner applications, you will help manage and grow our IT Delivery support and ecosystem.

• Ensure Technical Solution provided by Solution Arch is aligned with overall IPP technology stack and enterprise guidelines

• Ensure application resiliency, stability and data integrity is maintained through various technological implementations

• Collaborate with Product, Arch and other Tech leads, to translate feature requirements into sound, creative designs that effectively weigh business and technical tradeoffs

• Mentor and guide Engineering teams ensuring quality technical delivery

• As DevSecOps Champion and Security Maven Green Belt, ensure IPP security policies are up to date, and follows best practices and share with other teams to promote Organization security culture

• Expert understanding of coding languages, development framework, and knowledge of the organization and industry technology trends

• Ensure stakeholders needs & expectations are met and promote transparency by helping communicate through Agile SAFe/SCRUM practices

• Ensure technical components meet DevSecOps(DSO) Maturity level 5(Master) in a Behavioral Driven Development(BDD)

• Ability to support and lead others to develop IIB/ACE services utilizing onshore and offshore teams

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in application program development and work experience with at least 8+ years in strong IIB/ACE Development

• 7+ years of experience with IBM Integration Bus (IIB) v10 / Application Connect Enterprise (ACE) v11

• 7+ years of design and development of RESTful APIs, Web services, IBM API Connect (APIc)

• 7+ years of experience with IBM WebSphere Message Queue (WMQ)

• 6+ years of experience with full CI/CD process (GitHub, Jenkins and Octopus)

• 5+ years of Data modeling with proficiency in JSON and XML

• 5+ years of experience in modern programming languages and cloud-based technologies/GCP/AWS/Azure

• 5+ years of experience in designing, implementing, and managing KAFKA based solutions

• 5+ years of experience in Agile development practices

Preferred Qualifications

• HealthCare experience and managing complex applications delivery

• Experience with Individual Member Preferences, Profile, Privacy and Consent Management in the HealthCare context

• Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud computing, Data Power, RSAD and microservices architectures

• Experience with building application programming interfaces (API) and frameworks in their field. Experience in API security, analytics, throttling, caching, logging, request, and response modifications

• IBM certified solution developer Integration Bus or System Administrator or Solution designer

• IBM certified software WebSphere developer

• Expert knowledge of software engineering best practices with experience building complex software engineering products

• Extensive experience with building and driving adoption of software engineering best practices

• Mastery of application, data, and infrastructure architecture disciplines

• Knowledge of industry-wide technology trends and best practices

• Strong work ethic, be a self-starter, and be able to be highly productive in a dynamic, collaborative environment

• Strong Verbal and written Communication skills, ability to effectively communicate ideas and information to diverse audiences

• Excellent interpersonal skills to collaborate with team members and stakeholders

• Proven ability to work well in a team environment

• Demonstrated capacity to collaborate with colleagues to achieve common goals

• Experience in fostering a positive team atmosphere and contributing to a cohesive work environment

Education

Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field is required.

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

$130,295.00 - $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 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: 04/04/2025

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.