Principal Software Engineer (GCP, Distributed Systems, Analytics)

$144,200 - $288,400/Yr

CVS Health - Hartford, CT

Full-time - Senior

Hartford, CT

Health and Personal Care Retailers

About the position

Our Healthcare Delivery Analytics Engineering team within the Analytics & Behavior Change (A&BC) division of our Data, Digital, Analytics, Technology (DDAT) organization is seeking a Principal Software Development Engineer. We are looking for passionate, driven individuals who want to join a high-energy, growing team dedicated to making a difference in the lives of the patients being served by CVS Health businesses like MinuteClinic, Oak Street Health, and Signify Health. This role is at the forefront of AI innovation within healthcare, reinventing how we use data, analytics, and machine learning to ensure that the people who trust CVS Health with their care are supported across their healthcare journey by care teams armed with world-class diagnostic & analytics tooling. Our team's work is crucial to the mission of CVS Health: a fully integrated care delivery ecosystem utilizing digital, community, home-based and traditional channels, transforming care to drive superior health outcomes and a seamless patient and consumer experience.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrated excellence in software development with a disciplined approach to problem-solving.
• Develops solutions that are well engineered, flexible, resilient, operable, maintainable, and can be delivered on schedule.
• Strong architectural sense with experience in various software architectures and messaging patterns.
• Experience working in high-volume, high-frequency distributed systems and tackling scalability problems.
• Experience integrating excellence in software development, cloud platforms, and distributed system design and architecture into systems involving machine learning and language models.
• Broad knowledge encompassing the data and analytics space: work orchestration, OLAP and non-relational databases.
• Strong critical thinking skills with the ability to move fluidly between high-level abstract thinking and detailed implementation.
• Proven leader with the ability to mentor strong, cohesive technical teams.
• Passionate about technology with a high technical aptitude.
• Strong relationship-building and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with stakeholders at all levels.
• Good understanding of healthcare of other regulated industries, particularly how to manage regulated data.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software industry experience with 4+ years as a technical leader.
• 5+ years leading technical architecture initiatives that impact many value streams.
• 5+ years designing and developing distributed systems, employing a disciplined approach.
• 8+ years involved in requirements analysis, estimation within a formal SDLC.
• 8+ years of mastery with development languages (Python, Java, C#, Go, etc.).
• 8+ years of relational databases, including in the cloud.
• 5+ years of non-relational databases (document stores, KV stores, caches).
• 5+ years architecting solutions in any major cloud.
• 5+ years with micro-services architecture, APIs, real-time system integrations.
• 5+ years of automated unit and integrating testing.
• 3+ years of experience and mastery with Python.
• 3+ years with asynchronous messaging.
• 2+ years with machine learning models in a production environment.
• 1+ years with large language models in a production environment.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience building and operating large scale distributed systems.
• Ability to learn quickly and adapt to change requirements.
• Experience with SAFE practices or able to work in SAFE practices and agile methodologies.
• Experience related to security oriented projects.
• Exposure to CI/CD and DevOps.
• Software or analytics experience within the healthcare industry.
• Strong architectural skills, including diagramming.
• Excellent communications and presentation skills.
• Ability to manage multiple competing priorities with minimal supervision.
• Knowledge in GCP architecture, commands and experience designing & optimizing software and data engineering patterns.

Benefits

• Full range of medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• 401(k) retirement savings plan.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Fully-paid term life insurance plan.
• Short-term and long term disability benefits.
• Numerous well-being programs.
• Education assistance.
• Free development courses.
• CVS store discount.
• Paid Time Off (PTO) or vacation pay.
• Paid holidays throughout the calendar year.