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About the Role

CVS Health Digital is seeking a Staff Software Development Engineer to serve as a senior technical leader on a cross-functional product team. This role is responsible for designing, developing, and delivering scalable healthcare technology solutions, driving architecture decisions, mentoring engineers, and partnering with stakeholders to build secure, cloud-native applications that enhance the digital healthcare experience.

Responsibilities

Architect, design, and develop high-performance microservices using Java, JEE, Spring Boot, and Spring Cloud.
Lead development of event-driven services using Apache Kafka.
Own API strategy for RESTful services, ensuring consistent JSON modeling, backward-compatible versioning, and strong API governance.
Mentor team members and contribute to engineering standards, design reviews, and coding best practices.
Design and implement ETL pipelines for structured/unstructured data using tools such as Python-based pipelines, Spring Batch, or cloud-native ETL frameworks.
Lead data migration efforts for legacy-to-cloud or system-to-system transitions.
Establish data quality, profiling, and governance practices.
Work with clinical data formats, mapping, transformations, and normalization.
Build and maintain CI/CD automation.
Deploy and operate services on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Drive SecDevOps practices: threat modeling, secure coding, dependency scanning, secrets management, container hardening.
Implement observability frameworks.
Integrate microservices with EHR systems using HL7 v2, FHIR, SMART on FHIR, and standard healthcare APIs.
Support workflows across patient data exchange, interoperability, and HIPAA-aligned data flows.
Collaborate with compliance and security teams to implement regulatory safeguards.

Requirements

7+ years of professional software engineering experience in enterprise environments.
7+ years of experience developing applications using Java, J2EE, Spring Boot, and RESTful services.
5+ years of experience designing and implementing microservices architectures.
3+ years of experience with Apache Kafka or similar event-streaming technologies.
3+ years of experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and DevOps practices.
3+ years of experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
2+ years of experience working with public cloud platforms, including GCP, AWS, or Azure.

Skills

Java
JEE
Spring Boot
Spring Cloud
Apache Kafka
RESTful services
JSON modeling
API governance
Python-based pipelines
Spring Batch
ETL
FHIR resources
HL7 v2 segments
CCD/C-CDA documents
CI/CD automation
unit tests
integration tests
SAST/DAST
artifact provenance
policy gates
Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
GKE
Cloud Run
Cloud Build
Cloud SQL
Pub/Sub
IAM
Secret Manager
SecDevOps
threat modeling
secure coding
dependency scanning
secrets management
container hardening
OpenTelemetry
tracing
dashboards
alerts
SLOs
HL7 v2
FHIR
SMART on FHIR
HIPAA
Docker
Kubernetes
AWS
Azure
Epic
Cerner
MEDITECH
OAuth 2.0
OpenID Connect
vulnerability management
Grafana
HITRUST

Work Type

full-time

Experience Level

Staff Engineer
Senior technical leader

Education Level

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience (HS diploma + 4 years relevant experience)

Salary/Compensations

$106,605.00 - $284,280.00

Benefits

CVS Health bonus
commission
short-term incentive program
equity award program
medical coverage
dental coverage
vision coverage
paid time off
retirement savings options
wellness programs

About the Company

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.
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.
We strive to promote and sustain a culture of diversity, inclusion and belonging every day.
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.

Equal Opportunity

CVS Health is an affirmative action employer, and is an equal opportunity employer, as are the physician-owned businesses for which CVS Health provides management services.
We do not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, promotion, or any other personnel action based on race, ethnicity, color, national origin, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
We proudly support and encourage people with military experience (active, veterans, reservists and National Guard) as well as military spouses to apply for CVS Health job opportunities.
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.