Head of AI-Driven Software Engineering

CVS Health Corporation; Carson City (NV); On-site; USD 144,000 - 288,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Paid time off

Retirement savings

Job summary

CVS Health Corporation is seeking a senior engineering leader to drive technical strategy across a large multi-team organization. You will influence architecture, set engineering standards, and champion production-grade AI and ML-powered automation.

You will own delivery at velocity, collaborate with Product, Data, and healthcare leaders, and advocate for solid engineering investments while addressing architectural debt and feasibility. This is a high-impact, full-time role in the United States.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive software engineering experience
• Deep, hands-on technical foundation in distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and modern backend engineering at scale
• Proven AI platform ownership through production deployments (beyond demos)
• Track record of engineering transformation (monoliths to microservices, modernized platforms)

Responsibilities

• Drive technical strategy across a multi-team engineering organization (50-150+ engineers)
• Embed LLMs, generative AI, agentic workflows, and ML-powered automation into the engineering lifecycle
• Own delivery at velocity and be accountable for outcomes
• Partner at the executive level with Product owners, Data Engineers, and health care leaders
• Be the technical voice in the room, call out architectural debt and push back on infeasible timelines

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud-native architectures

AI platform ownership

Engineering transformation

LLM orchestration

Vector databases

Inference optimization

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / related field

Master's degree (M.S. or M.Eng.)

Job description

CVS Health Corporation is seeking a senior engineering leader to drive technical strategy across a large multi-team organization. You will influence architecture, set engineering standards, and champion production-grade AI and ML-powered automation.

You will own delivery at velocity, collaborate with Product, Data, and healthcare leaders, and advocate for solid engineering investments while addressing architectural debt and feasibility. This is a high-impact, full-time role in the United States.