Senior Software Development Engineer

Bring your heart to CVS Health. Every one of us at CVS Health shares a single, clear purpose: Bringing our heart to every moment of your health. This purpose guides our commitment to deliver enhanced human-centric health care for a rapidly changing world. Anchored in our brand — with heart at its center — our purpose sends a personal message that how we deliver our services is just as important as what we deliver.
 
Our Heart At Work Behaviors™ support this purpose. We want everyone who works at CVS Health to feel empowered by the role they play in transforming our culture and accelerating our ability to innovate and deliver solutions to make health care more personal, convenient and affordable.

Position Summary

Join CVS Health as a Senior Software Development Engineer.  As a Senior Software Development Engineer, you will work with both full-time employees and contracted resources to execute project work within the IT organization at CVS Health. The Senior Software Development Engineer will design, develop, and implement digital solutions and systems by applying advanced technical expertise to architect and code software applications. The right candidate will also conduct system testing and debugging, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and contribute to the overall technical direction and innovation of engineering projects.

Responsibilities

• Design and define the technical architecture and infrastructure required for solutions
• Write code, develop software components, and implement complex functionalities according to project requirements
• Collaborate with other members of the development team and stakeholders to make high-level architectural decisions, proposes design patterns, and ensures scalability, performance, and maintainability of digital solutions
• Leverage advanced programming skills to design and implement complex features, optimize performance, and ensure code efficiency
• Integrate various software components or systems, ensuring seamless communication and interoperability between different parts of the digital solution
• Write and execute comprehensive test cases, conduct code reviews, perform debugging, and troubleshoot issues to ensure the reliability, stability, and high quality of digital solutions
• Participate in agile or other development methodologies, attend meetings, contributes to project planning, and help drive the progress and success of digital projects
• Explore new tools, frameworks, and techniques to improve digital solutions and drive innovation within the development team
• Create and maintain technical documentation, including system designs, architecture diagrams, code documentation, and other relevant documentation while sharing knowledge and expertise with team members, ensuring effective knowledge transfer and collaboration
• Design and Develop API and Event architecture
• Work with the team to decompose existing monolithic applications to design and deliver Architectures for complex custom projects using the latest Open-Source technologies 
• Define API practices that will allow the Specialty Organization to build technological ecosystems for efficient experimentation and continuous improvement
• Foster an environment that empowers teams and facilitates the development of your team members, setting everyone up to deliver their best work 
• Design Event models (sync vs. async message, p2p, versus pub/sub vs. distributed log approach, web based)
• Define API governance and how it applies in practice
• Specify and Implement RESTful principles and define how to model functionality in an API that addresses relevant use cases
• Specify Systems architecture and approaches to manage architectural debt
• Identify API design techniques and strategies for API evolution
• Communicate design approaches to teams and organization
• Manage stakeholders and interact with team at all levels of the organization
• Focus on integration architecture and domain modeling and articulate the pros/cons of different approaches
• Work across teams to explore integration options
• Facilitate discussions to ensure alignment with architectural vision, be able to course correct on architectural deviations
• Evangelize for APIs within an organization
• Communicate the value of good domain modeling and API design to business stakeholders
• Communicate team and organizational design approaches to decouple development efforts
• Train new technology leaders and developers on platform thinking

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Java, J2EE Design Patterns, Object-Oriented design, Algorithms and Optimizations 
• 3+ years of experience building and consuming Micro Services with Spring Cloud, Spring Boot
• 3+ years of experience in backend application development: Java, Spring/Spring Boot 
• 3 + years of experience in integration layer development: RESTful APIs/ Spring/Web Services/JMS 
• 5+ years of experience with: SQL and relational databases (e.g. Oracle, Maria DB, MySQL) 
• 3+ years of experience leading, building, and executing strategic activities 
• 2+ years of experience with Kubernetes and AKS\
• 3+ years of strong mentorship

Preferred Qualifications

• Experienced with API and CICD pipeline design
• Experience with Jenkins, Groovy, Ansible, Spring Cloud, Spring Gateway, Spring Boot, Docker,
• Experience leading, building, and executing strategic activities
• Ability to adapt quickly to new technology and business requirements
• Interface with key project stakeholders like management, cross functional team leadership, offshore and onsite teams, R&D, customers and project managers is required

Education

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience (High School Diploma and 4 years relevant experience)

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

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. 
 
In addition to your compensation, enjoy the rewards of an organization that puts our heart into caring for our colleagues and our communities.  The Company offers a full range of medical, dental, and vision benefits.  Eligible employees may enroll in the Company’s 401(k) retirement savings plan, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan is also available for eligible employees.  The Company provides a fully-paid term life insurance plan to eligible employees, and short-term and long term disability benefits. CVS Health also offers numerous well-being programs, education assistance, free development courses, a CVS store discount, and discount programs with participating partners.  As for time off, Company employees enjoy Paid Time Off (“PTO”) or vacation pay, as well as paid holidays throughout the calendar year. Number of paid holidays, sick time and other time off are provided consistent with relevant state law and Company policies.  
 
For more detailed information on available benefits, please visit Benefits | CVS Health

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