Backend Platform & API Strategy Lead

Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement; Washington; Hybrid; USD 165,155 - 224,762; Full time

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Backend Capability Product Specialist to own the backend platform, API ecosystem, and third‑party integrations within our SaaS suite. You will lead API strategy, DX, and governance while coordinating with engineering, product, and business teams.

The role emphasizes data-driven prioritization, interoperability standards (FHIR, HL7), and ROI‑driven roadmap decisions to differentiate our backend capabilities in a health tech context.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of product management experience.
• 4+ years focused on backend systems, APIs or platform products.
• Proven track record delivering SaaS platform features at scale (B2B/enterprise).
• Deep understanding of RESTful API design, webhooks, async messaging, and modern integration patterns.
• Hands-on experience with API management platforms (Apigee, AWS API Gateway, Kong, MuleSoft).
• Strong ROI modeling, market sizing, and competitive differentiation.
• Experience leading API/platform product strategy, not just execution.
• Comfortable reading API specs (OpenAPI/Swagger) and participating in architecture discussions.

Responsibilities

• Own roadmap for backend systems, APIs, and data platform capabilities.
• Define API design standards, versioning, and DX principles.
• Drive scalable, event-driven microservices architecture with engineering leads.
• Establish and govern API governance (auth, rate limits, SLAs).
• Lead strategy for third‑party integrations and marketplace ecosystem.
• Identify integration opportunities with EHR/EMR platforms and payer systems.
• Collaborate with architects to adopt HL7 FHIR, SMART on FHIR, TEFCA standards.
• Manage integration roadmap from vendor evaluation to production go-live.
• Build ROI-based business cases for platform investments.
• Partner with Sales/CS to translate market needs into features.

Skills

SaaS product management

API strategy

Data-driven prioritization

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Apigee

AWS API Gateway

Kong

MuleSoft

Job description

CVS Health is seeking a Backend Capability Product Specialist to own the backend platform, API ecosystem, and third‑party integrations within our SaaS suite. You will lead API strategy, DX, and governance while coordinating with engineering, product, and business teams.

The role emphasizes data-driven prioritization, interoperability standards (FHIR, HL7), and ROI‑driven roadmap decisions to differentiate our backend capabilities in a health tech context.