Hands-On Senior Data Engineering & AI Leader

Cvshealth; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 118,000 - 284,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus and equity opportunities

Comprehensive benefits package

Career growth and development

Job summary

CVS Health is hiring a Senior Manager, Data Engineering & AI in Irving, TX. You will lead a team of data and software engineers, while spending about half your time on hands-on design, coding, and prototyping data pipelines and AI-enabled applications.

You will collaborate with product managers, data scientists, and business stakeholders to shape roadmaps, productionize models, and ensure data investments deliver measurable outcomes.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in data engineering, software engineering, or a related field.
• 3+ years of people management experience, including hiring, performance management, and developing engineers.
• Demonstrated ability and willingness to commit approximately 50% of time to hands-on design and development.
• Deep understanding of full stack engineering, software engineering principles, design fundamentals, and first-principles problem solving.
• Strong proficiency in Python and SQL, plus at least one additional language (e.g., Java, Scala, or JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Proven experience designing and building data pipelines, data models, and data platforms on a major cloud provider (GCP, AWS, or Azure).
• Hands-on experience applying AI/ML or GenAI in production data environments.
• Experience working closely with product, data science, and business teams to deliver outcomes.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD, testing, observability, and DevOps practices for data and software systems.
• Adept at execution and delivery (planning, delivering, and supporting).
• Adept at business intelligence and translating business needs into technical solutions.
• Adept at collaboration, teamwork, and building relationships across organizational boundaries.
• Mastery of problem solving and decision making.
• Mastery of growth mindset (agility and developing yourself and others).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Leads and actively contributes to a team that builds the systems and AI-enabled platforms used to process, store, and serve data across the enterprise.
• Manages a team of data and software engineers, owns development, performance, and delivery, with ~50% hands-on engineering.
• Shapes roadmaps with product managers and moves models from experiments to production with data scientists.
• Defines strategy for full software development lifecycle and data pipelines to support analytics initiatives.
• Leads design and delivery of AI/ML-enabled data products, including GenAI and LLM-based solutions.
• Partners with product, data science, and business stakeholders to deliver measurable value.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data engineering

Leadership

Communication

Cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure)

GenAI/AI engineering

Education

Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

GCP

AWS

Azure

Vertex AI

LangChain

LangGraph

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

CVS Health is hiring a Senior Manager, Data Engineering & AI in Irving, TX. You will lead a team of data and software engineers, while spending about half your time on hands-on design, coding, and prototyping data pipelines and AI-enabled applications.

You will collaborate with product managers, data scientists, and business stakeholders to shape roadmaps, productionize models, and ensure data investments deliver measurable outcomes.