Senior Data Engineer

CVS Health; Wellesley (MA); Hybrid; USD 93,000 - 222,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Hybrid/onsite flexibility

Career development support

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Senior Data Engineer in a hybrid role, with local candidates in Wellesley, MA or other hub locations. You will design, develop, and maintain data pipelines across terabyte-to-petabyte scale healthcare data, enabling data-driven decisions and reusable data ecosystems.

You will partner with cross-functional teams to implement scalable data architectures on GCP, embed AI/ML capabilities, and drive data democratization while ensuring security and governance across platforms.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of SQL/NoSQL experience.
• 3+ years Python or similar scripting language.
• 3+ years in data warehouses, modeling, and architectures.
• 3+ years ETL/ELT and high-volume data pipelines.
• 3+ years reporting/analytic tools experience.
• 3+ years in Big data and cloud architecture.
• 3+ years hands-on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• 3+ years deploying and scaling containers on GCP (GKE/Cloud Run)
• 3+ years real-time/streaming data on GCP (Pub/Sub/Dataflow/Kafka)
• 1+ year managing stakeholder requirements
• 1+ year independently delivering projects

Responsibilities

• Architect and develop scalable ETL/ELT pipelines on GCP.
• Build analytical models in BigQuery and optimize performance.
• Develop integrations with external systems using GCP-native tools.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines and establish observability for pipelines.
• Lead data platform architecture decisions and mentor engineers.
• Design and maintain enterprise AI/ML solutions and integrate LLMs.

Skills

SQL/NoSQL

Python

Data warehouses

ETL/ELT

BI/Analytics tools

Query optimization

Cloud architecture

GCP

Containerization (GKE/Cloud Run)

Streaming data

Stakeholder mgmt

Independent deliverables

Education

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent

Master’s Degree preferred

Tools

BigQuery

Dataflow

Dataproc

Cloud Run

GKE

Cloud Storage

Pub/Sub

Data Catalog/Dataplex

CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Jenkins)

Job description

We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time.

Position Summary

This is a hybrid position - in a hub office 1 to 3 days a week. Must be local to Wellesley MA, Hartford CT, New York City, or Irving TX.

If you’re eager to make a real impact in the health care industry through your own meaningful contributions, explore a role in technology with CVS Health. Our journey calls for technical innovators and data visionaries: come help us pave the way.

At CVS Health, we possess an extensive repository of healthcare data that spans over 150 million individuals, providing an unparalleled foundation for ambitious Data Engineers. In this role, you will engage with complex business challenges, harnessing modern tools and technologies to securely store, process, transform, and enrich terabyte to petabyte scale healthcare data. Your work will underpin data-driven business decisions and contribute to our mission of delivering industry-best data products / software with a customer-first mindset and team-oriented approach.

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will be instrumental in designing, developing, and maintaining optimal data pipelines to assemble large and intricate datasets, catering to the business requirements of various CVS lines of business. Collaborating closely with teams, you will craft tools to provide actionable insights and integrate them with consumer touchpoints.

In This Role, You Will

• Architect and develop robust, scalable ETL/ELT pipelines using Cloud Dataflow, Cloud composer (Airflow), and Pub/Sub for both batch and streaming use cases. Leverage BigQuery as the central data warehouse and design integrations with other GCP services (e.g., Cloud storage, Cloud functions).
• Build and optimize analytical data models in BigQuery. Implement partitioning, clustering, and materialized views for performance and cost efficiency. Ensure compliance with data governance, access controls, and IAM best practices.
• Develop integrations with external systems (APIs, flat files etc.) using GCP-native or hybrid approaches. Utilize tools like Dataflow or custom Python/Java services on Cloud Functions or Cloud Run to handle transformations and ingestion logic.
• Build automated CI/CD pipeline using Cloud Build, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins for deploying data pipeline code and workflows. Set up observability using Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, and Error Reporting to ensure pipeline reliability.
• Lead architectural decisions for data platforms and mentor junior engineers on cloud-native data engineering patterns. Promote best practices for code quality, version control, cost optimization, and data security in a GCP environment. Drive initiatives around data democratization, including building reusable datasets and data catalogs via Dataplex or Data Catalog.
• Design, develop, and maintain enterprise AI/ML solutions and platforms that address complex business and customer challenges. Integrate Large Language Models (LLMs), generative AI capabilities, and AI agents into products and data ecosystems. Define the technical architecture and infrastructure required for AI applications, and build scalable platforms supporting model training, deployment, monitoring, governance, and lifecycle management while ensuring security, reliability, and operational excellence.

As leaders in healthcare, our analytics and engineering teams deliver innovative solutions to business problems by collaborating with cross-functional teams in a dynamic and agile environment. You will be part of a team that values collaboration and encourages innovative thinking at all levels. You will be intellectually challenged to solve problems associated with large scale complex, structured and unstructured data, that will allow you to grow your technical skills and engineering expertise.

Required Qualifications

• 3-5+ years of experience with SQL, NoSQL
• 3-5+ years of experience with Python (or a comparable scripting language)
• 3+ years of experience with Data warehouses (such as data modeling and technical architectures) and infrastructure components
• 3+ years of experience with ETL/ELT, and building high-volume data pipelines
• 3+ years of experience with reporting/analytic tools
• 3+ years of experience with Query optimization, data structures, transformation, metadata, dependency, and workload management
• 3+ years of experience with Big data and cloud architecture
• 3+ years of hands‑on experience building and managing cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Dataflow, and Dataproc
• 3+ years of experience deploying and scaling containerized applications on GCP using Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Cloud Run, and Artifact Registry
• 3+ years of experience with real-time and streaming data technologies on GCP (i.e. Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Cloud Functions, Apache Kafka, Spark Streaming)
• 1+ year(s) of soliciting complex requirements and managing relationships with key stakeholders
• 1+ year(s) of experience independently managing deliverables

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in designing and building data engineering solutions in cloud environments (preferably GCP)
• Experience with Git, CI/CD pipeline, and other DevOps principles/best practices
• Experience with bash shell scripts, UNIX utilities & UNIX Commands
• Ability to leverage multiple tools and programming languages to analyze and manipulate data sets from disparate data sources
• Knowledge of API development
• Exposure to Generative AI
• Exposure Large Language Models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama, etc.)
• Experience with complex systems and solving challenging analytical problems
• Strong collaboration and communication skills within and across teams
• Knowledge of data visualization and reporting
• Experience with schema design and dimensional data modeling
• Google Professional Data Engineer Certification
• Knowledge of microservices and SOA
• Formal SAFe and/or agile experience. Previous healthcare experience and domain knowledge
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining data processing systems
• Experience architecting and building data warehouse and data lakes

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, Data Analytics, Machine Learning, or related field required.
• Master’s Degree preferred.

Anticipated Weekly Hours

40

Time Type

Full time

Pay Range

The Typical Pay Range For This Role Is

$92,700.00 - $222,480.00

This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors. This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above.

Great Benefits For Great People

We take pride in offering a comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits that reflects our commitment to our colleagues and their families.

This full‑time position is eligible for a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial well‑being of colleagues and their families. The benefits for this position include medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other resources, based on eligibility.

Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments.

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 09/22/2026

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.