AI-Driven Principal Engineer, Clinical Data Platforms

CVS Health; New Jersey; Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 288,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Bonus program

Equity award program

Job summary

CVS Health is building the platform that turns clinical, claims and document data into insight for patients, providers and payers. As Principal Engineer, you will design and build that platform on Google Cloud and lead how our teams use AI agents to develop and operate it.

The scope is broad and the pace is fast, with evolving requirements. You will bring creative problem solving, a collaborative approach, and an AI-first mindset to ensure governed, scalable systems in a regulated environment.

Qualifications

• 12+ years building production distributed systems.
• 5+ years leading architecture across multiple teams at staff/principal level.
• Hands-on coding in Python and Go/Java/C#.

Responsibilities

• Design platform architecture on Google Cloud with engineering leadership.
• Write production code for critical components of the platform.
• Lead AI-assisted development practices and measure impact on delivery speed and quality.
• Design AI-assisted operations for incident triage, runbook automation and cost management.
• Ensure enterprise controls with change management, access reviews and data lineage.
• Explain complex systems clearly to engineers and executives.

Skills

Python

Go/Java/C#

Cloud platforms

AI agent usage

Written communication

Diagramming

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related field

Master's degree preferred

Tools

GKE

BigQuery

Spanner

Dataflow

Pub/Sub

Vertex AI

VPC Service Controls

Job description

CVS Health is building the platform that turns clinical, claims and document data into insight for patients, providers and payers. As Principal Engineer, you will design and build that platform on Google Cloud and lead how our teams use AI agents to develop and operate it.

The scope is broad and the pace is fast, with evolving requirements. You will bring creative problem solving, a collaborative approach, and an AI-first mindset to ensure governed, scalable systems in a regulated environment.