Senior Data Engineering Leader — Scale & Impact

CVS Health; Illinois; Hybrid; USD 107,000 - 261,000; Full time

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Senior Manager, Data Engineering to lead a team of data engineers and DBAs, delivering reliable, scalable data platforms and analytics capabilities that support operational needs and business growth.

This hands-on leadership role emphasizes SQL, data modeling, governance, and collaboration with IT and business leaders to drive operational excellence and long-term platform health across the enterprise.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in data engineering, database engineering, data platform operations, or related engineering disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of data engineers and DBAs, creating clear expectations, strong accountability, and ongoing growth while contributing to resource planning, organizational design, and talent strategy
• Oversee the design, delivery, support, and continuous improvement of data platforms, database-driven solutions, and operational data capabilities, including scalable ingestion, transformation, storage, and retrieval solutions for analytics, reporting, and operational use cases
• Drive operational excellence across the data environment through strong support practices, monitoring, performance optimization, resiliency planning, root cause analysis, automation, and reduction of operational risk
• Provide leadership across data engineering, database management, and select platform/infrastructure responsibilities, promoting strong disciplines in data quality, governance, service reliability, disaster recovery, scalability, and long-term platform health
• Partner across engineering, architecture, infrastructure, security, and business teams to deliver reliable, secure, and scalable solutions aligned to enterprise priorities, while translating technical priorities, risks, and improvement opportunities into clear, business-relevant communication for senior business and IT leaders
• Foster a culture of engineering excellence, collaboration, accountability, continuous improvement, and thoughtful innovation, including the responsible use of AI-enabled tools to improve productivity, analysis, documentation, and operational efficiency

Skills

Data engineering

SQL

Leadership

Operational excellence

Cross-functional collaboration

AI tools

Communication

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent work experience

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Python

Spark

Data warehousing

Job description

CVS Health is seeking a Senior Manager, Data Engineering to lead a team of data engineers and DBAs, delivering reliable, scalable data platforms and analytics capabilities that support operational needs and business growth.

This hands-on leadership role emphasizes SQL, data modeling, governance, and collaboration with IT and business leaders to drive operational excellence and long-term platform health across the enterprise.