Senior Backend Platform & API Product Lead (SaaS)

Quest Oracle Community; Kentucky; On-site; USD 107,000 - 284,000; Full time

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Backend Capability Product Specialist to own the backend platform, API ecosystem, and third‑party integration layer of our SaaS product suite. You will bridge engineering, business strategy, and market intelligence to design scalable, interoperable systems powering internal capabilities and external partner integrations.

In this senior role you will lead API strategy, governance, and marketplace integrations with major EHR platforms, while driving ROI‑driven business

Qualifications

• At least 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 - ideally in a B2B or enterprise context
• Deep understanding of RESTful API design, webhooks, async messaging, and modern integration patterns
• Hands-on experience with API management platforms (e.g., Apigee, AWS API Gateway, Kong, MuleSoft)
• Strong ability to build investment cases grounded in ROI modeling, market sizing, and competitive differentiation
• Demonstrated experience leading API or platform product strategy - not just execution
• Comfortable reading technical documentation, reviewing API specs (OpenAPI/Swagger), and participating in architectural discussions

Responsibilities

• Own the product roadmap for backend systems, APIs, and data platform capabilities
• Define API design standards, versioning strategies, and developer experience (DX) principles
• Drive the vision for a scalable, event-driven microservices architecture in collaboration with engineering leads
• Establish and govern API governance frameworks including authentication, rate limiting, and SLA commitments
• Lead strategy and execution for third‑party integrations, partner APIs, and marketplace ecosystem development
• Identify and prioritize integration opportunities with EHR/EMR platforms (Epic, Cerner, athenahealth, etc.), payer systems, and health data networks
• Collaborate with technical architects to evaluate and adopt interoperability standards: HL7 FHIR R4 / R4B, SMART on FHIR, Direct Messaging / TEFCA / QHIN participation
• Manage the integration roadmap from vendor evaluation through production go‑live and ongoing lifecycle management
• Monitor and synthesize healthcare technology market trends, regulatory shifts (ONC, CMS), and competitive landscape to inform the backend roadmap
• Evaluate emerging capabilities - including commercial AI model APIs (Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, OpenAI GPT), generative AI integration, and real‑time data streaming - and translate them into business‑ready features
• Build ROI‑based business cases for platform investments, with quantified impact projections tied to revenue, retention, or efficiency
• Partner with Sales, Customer Success, and pre‑sales teams to understand unmet integration and API needs from the market

Skills

Product management

Backend APIs

SaaS platforms

API governance

DX principles

ROI modeling

Agile/Scrum

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 integration layer of our SaaS product suite. You will bridge engineering, business strategy, and market intelligence to design scalable, interoperable systems powering internal capabilities and external partner integrations.

In this senior role you will lead API strategy, governance, and marketplace integrations with major EHR platforms, while driving ROI‑driven business