Senior Cloud Software Engineer - Java, Spring Boot & Kafka

Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 83,430 - 222,480; Full time

Job summary

CVS Health Digital seeks a Senior Software Development Engineer to lead design and development of scalable, cloud-native microservices in Java/JEE, Spring Boot, and Kafka, focusing on secure healthcare data solutions.

You will own data migration, ETL pipelines, API governance, and SecDevOps practices, mentoring engineers and guiding architecture while delivering resilient services on Google Cloud Platform.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 5+ years with developing applications within Java/JEE, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, RESTful microservices.
• 3+ years of Apache Kafka (event streaming, partitions, consumer groups, schema registry).
• 3+ years CI/CD pipelines, Git workflows, automated testing.
• 3+ years Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud orchestration.
• 2+ years hands-on experience with Cloud (GCP, AWS, Azure).

Responsibilities

• Architect, design, and develop high‑performance microservices using Java, JEE, Spring Boot, and Spring Cloud.
• Lead development of event‑driven services using Apache Kafka (producers, consumers, streaming patterns, schema evolution).
• Own API strategy for RESTful services, ensuring consistent JSON modeling, backward‑compatible versioning, and strong API governance.
• Mentor team members and contribute to engineering standards, design reviews, and coding best practices.
• Design and implement ETL pipelines for structured/unstructured data using Python‑based pipelines, Spring Batch, or cloud‑native ETL frameworks.
• Lead data migration efforts for legacy‑to‑cloud or system‑to‑system transitions (incremental loads, bulk loads, validation, reconciliation).
• Establish data quality, profiling, and governance practices.
• Work with clinical data formats, mapping, transformations, and normalization (FHIR resources, HL7 v2 segments, CCD/C‑CDA documents).
• Build and maintain CI/CD automation (unit tests, integration tests, SAST/DAST, artifact provenance, policy gates).
• Deploy and operate services on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Build, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, IAM, Secret Manager, etc.
• Drive SecDevOps practices: threat modeling, secure coding, dependency scanning, secrets management, container hardening.
• Implement observability frameworks (OpenTelemetry, tracing, dashboards, alerts, SLOs).
• Integrate microservices with EHR systems using HL7 v2, FHIR, SMART on FHIR, and standard healthcare APIs.
• Support workflows across patient data exchange, interoperability, and HIPAA‑aligned data flows.
• Collaborate with compliance and security teams to implement regulatory safeguards.

Skills

Java/JEE

Spring Boot

Spring Cloud

RESTful microservices

Apache Kafka

GCP

Security DevOps

Data Migration

ETL pipelines

HL7/FHIR knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

Spring Batch

Cloud Run

GKE

Job description

CVS Health Digital seeks a Senior Software Development Engineer to lead design and development of scalable, cloud-native microservices in Java/JEE, Spring Boot, and Kafka, focusing on secure healthcare data solutions.

You will own data migration, ETL pipelines, API governance, and SecDevOps practices, mentoring engineers and guiding architecture while delivering resilient services on Google Cloud Platform.