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Principal Software Development Engineer

United States 144200.00 - 288400.00 USD / Year · Job Posted February 25, 2026
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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. The Principal Software Development Engineer, reporting to the Executive Director Software Engineering, will work with High Visibility Enterprise teams to develop and execute Enterprise Solution Strategy. As a Principal Engineer, you will be directly developing and landing Specialty dispensing pharmacy Initiatives. This lead technical role will compile, research technologies across the organization into one cohesive Technical Roadmap and in addition, will create Proof of Concepts that will improve projects that will address our customer challenges. Furthermore, the Principal Engineer role includes closely working with a team of engineers to drive delivery excellence, partner with business and other IT leaders to build digital assets, provide expert level support to resolve complex issues and provide RCA, identify gaps in systems in current digital eco system and provide solutions to enhance overall performance. This is the one of the most senior technical positions in a ~100+ person development organization focused on Prescription Dispensing. The incumbent will be a seasoned technologist AND have the executive skills to lead others, communicate with exceptional clarity, and develop culture. While the role has no direct staff, it is a member of the leadership team. The role is equal parts technical and employee organizational. CVS Specialty Dispensing supports 20+ front end and backend pharmacies.

Job Responsibility

  • Architect: Establish and ensure adherence to technical direction, standards, guidelines, and methodology for use of specified technologies in the department
  • Lead the Technical Advisory council that performs application architectural reviews on department initiatives
  • Partner with teams and serve as subject matter expert to provide benchmarked solutions to multiple, complex technical projects/initiatives within own area of expertise and organize cross-departmental application architectural solutions
  • Influence the technical standards and tool selection for the entire the company
  • Collaborate with Pharmacy Tower Architecture and Enterprise Architecture for integrated infrastructure designs
  • Vendor technology evaluation and influence
  • Work with external development firms to evaluate the strength of their platforms as candidates for selection to be added to CVS' environment
  • Influence the vendors' technical direction to align with CVS'
  • Architect for backward/forward compatibility and insulation from the short comings of vendor software
  • Visionary & Strategist: Develop and improve strategic technical direction for functional areas
  • Maintain the departmental strategic multi-year roadmap and author new additions to it
  • Align with the Enterprise technology roadmap and extend it to include technology useful to the Specialty department
  • Use quantitative measures to guide architectural priorities
  • Engage senior technical and business leaders in the development of the technical roadmap then present the results
  • Keep abreast of technological trends in the industry and determine if useful and/or feasible (i.e. financial impact) and make recommendations to the organization
  • Build the business case for new tools and drive the funding process
  • Then lead Proof Of Concept (POC) initiatives to evaluate technologies
  • When new technologies / techniques are selected, then manage the integration, cultural adoption, and transition
  • Standard Setter: Lead matrixed application Technical Leads in the development and implementation of application standards through all parts of the Specialty Dispensing architectural stack
  • Facilitate experts in a variety of disciplines: Angular, Java, Oracle, Public & Private Cloud, Rules Engines, Open Source & Proprietary frameworks, etc. to work on how methodologies and standards will be defined
  • Technical Program Leader: Act as the most senior technical contributor on strategic initiatives
  • During some periods leading (e.g. defining sensible sets of functionality to be grouped into projects of a multi-year program) and other times supporting (e.g. providing application architectural designs with the Technical Lead on the project)
  • Engaged in a multi-million dollar, multi-year dispensing pharmacy system creation
  • Be deeply personally engaged in the success of this program
  • Process Development and Adoption: Identifies necessary process changes for the department and methodically implements them
  • Leads the department's DevSecOps maturity journey
  • Progresses the Unit and QA Test Automation processes in collaboration with the Quality Assurance organization to “shift left”
  • Selects and implements the tooling for the Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment pipeline across all technology stacks (i.e. Angular, Java, Oracle)
  • Surveys other departments, enterprise initiatives, and the industry for best practices for the department to adopt

Requirements

  • 10+ years of hands-on information technology experience in systems analysis, application design, application development, and application program development with leading teams
  • 7+ years of development experience in the following languages: Java, Python, Spring Boot and some hand-on working knowledge of JavaScript, AngularJS, and/or NodeJS
  • 5+ years of experience in building or leading large-scale applications
  • 5+ years of hands-on experience with enterprise cloud initiatives and solutions with cloud computing technologies and have a track record developing in GCP/AWS on a public cloud environment
  • 5+ years of experience in managing stakeholder’s requirements, and technical solutions
  • 5+ years of designing and developing modern microservices and cost-effective API’s
  • 3+ years of software development experience, with a strong emphasis on AI technologies, particularly Generative AI and Large Language Models and familiarity with AI/ML frameworks and libraries (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn)
  • 3+ years of experience in one or more of the following DevOps tools: Kubernetes, Argo, GIT, Jenkins, Maven, JUnit, Docker, JMeter, Antifactory
  • 3+ year experience with Kafka or open-source distributions
  • 3+ years of experience working on CI/CD Pipeline automation
  • Bachelor’s degree or, equivalent experience (HS diploma + 4 years relevant experience)

Nice to have

  • Experience working with distributed teams, working across multiple time zones and geographical locations
  • Experience researching of technical environments
  • Health and wellness domain experience
  • Hands on experience working as full stack development when needed AngularJS, JavaScript, Oracle and other modern database like NOSQL
  • Strong understanding of Generative AI concepts and techniques, including but not limited to: Natural Language Processing(NLP), Text generation and summarization, Conversational AI and chatbots
  • Hands on experience developing user-facing features and/or applications
  • Ability to influence and inspire teams to align technical direction
  • Ability to create and execute on roadmaps that consider both progress and innovation as well as the need to scale reliably
  • Have contributed to open-source technology and or developed any patents
  • Ability to learn/work with emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions in the Cloud/IT technology space
  • Ability to collaborate across organizational boundaries, build relationships, and achieve broader organizational goals

What we offer

  • Affordable medical plan options
  • 401(k) plan (including matching company contributions)
  • Employee stock purchase plan
  • No-cost programs for all colleagues including wellness screenings, tobacco cessation and weight management programs, confidential counseling and financial coaching
  • Paid time off
  • Flexible work schedules
  • Family leave
  • Dependent care resources
  • Colleague assistance programs
  • Tuition assistance
  • Retiree medical access

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