Principal Cloud AI Engineer

Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 144,200 - 288,400; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Bonus potential

Equity award program

Retirement savings options

Paid time off

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Principal Software Development Engineer to help build cloud-native platforms powering AI-driven health experiences for hundreds of millions of consumers. You will lead architectural initiatives across value streams, collaborating with product, engineering, and platform teams to deliver scalable, secure solutions.

You will shape the future of healthcare technology by guiding reference architectures, evaluating emerging tech, and mentoring architects and engineers to drive

Qualifications

• 10+ years of Software Industry experience.
• 7+ years leading enterprise-scale solution design and technical architecture initiatives across multiple value streams.
• 7+ years' hands-on experience with modern technologies and frameworks, including Java, Python, Node.js, Angular, and ReactJS.
• 7+ years of experience with relational and NoSQL databases, including data modeling, normalization/denormalization, sharding, and other scalable data architecture patterns.
• 7+ years of experience designing cloud-native, microservices-based solutions on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• 5+ years of experience designing modern APIs and RESTful services that enhance user experience and simplify systems integration.
• 5+ years of experience with micro-services architecture and designing RESTful APIs that facilitate a superior UX or simplify systems integration.
• 5+ years' experience designing and developing complex systems employing a disciplined and rigorous approach.
• 5+ years' experience with requirements analysis, estimation, systems, and application design, and testing.
• 5+ years of demonstrated communication and presentation skills, with the ability to effectively influence and communicate technical concepts to teams, clients, and executive leadership.
• 4+ years of experience managing technical, customer-facing applications and services.
• Proven ability to be self-directed, manage multiple competing priorities and deliver results with minimal supervision.

Responsibilities

• Working closely with Product Managers/Owners, Application Architects and Engineering Leads to provide guidance on implementation of reference architecture solutions that demonstrate best in class user experiences.
• Evaluating emerging technologies, leading proof-of-concept (POC) initiatives, and developing architectural recommendations that validate technical approaches and accelerate innovation.
• Developing solutions that are well engineered, flexible, resilient, operable, maintainable, and can be delivered on schedule, while ensuring a balance between tactical and strategic technology solutions.
• Aurthor white papers, guides, how-to's, and other technical documentation that clearly explains architectural guidelines, vision, technical direction, and serves as a reference for the internal developer community.
• Excellent collaboration, influencing, evangelization, negotiation, coaching, mentoring, and coalition-building skills, with the ability to work with across all levels (e.g. jr. to VP) and job functions (e.g. product, platform, developers, DevOps).
• Champion a user-centric approach to product development, ensuring accessibility, privacy, and security are embedded into every solution. Ensure the secure handling of PII and PHI data and that architectural designs address potential security threats and vulnerabilities.
• Provide Subject Matter Expert (SME) oversight and development support on future application updates and maintenance.
• Mentor and coach architects and engineers, fostering technical excellence, continuous learning, and a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
• Define and validate Non-Functional Requirements, including performance, scalability, availability, resiliency, disaster recovery, security, and observability, ensuring solutions meet enterprise standards.
• Analyze current architecture and develop opportunities for improvements in alignment with industry best practices.
• Work with internal and external stakeholders to arrive at optimal business and technology solutions.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Systems thinking

Agile / SAFe experience

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Master's degree in CS or related

Tools

Java

Python

Node.js

Angular

ReactJS

GCP

Microservices

RESTful APIs

SQL

NoSQL

Job description

CVS Health is seeking a Principal Software Development Engineer to help build cloud-native platforms powering AI-driven health experiences for hundreds of millions of consumers. You will lead architectural initiatives across value streams, collaborating with product, engineering, and platform teams to deliver scalable, secure solutions.

You will shape the future of healthcare technology by guiding reference architectures, evaluating emerging tech, and mentoring architects and engineers to drive