Senior Manager - Software Development Engineering

CVS Health; Richardson (TX); On-site; USD 118,000 - 285,000; Full time

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Senior Manager for Software Development Engineering to lead a dynamic team focused on digital transformation initiatives. This role involves driving the delivery of digital products, mentoring engineers, and collaborating across various teams to enhance healthcare solutions. Candidates should have extensive IT experience, strong leadership skills, and a passion for improving consumer health experiences.

Benefits

401(k) plan with matching contributions

Employee stock purchase plan

Wellness screenings

Tuition assistance

Flexible work schedules

Qualifications

• 7+ years of IT/Digital development experience.
• 2+ years in a management role leading software teams.
• Experience in SAFe Agile work environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead an engineering team to deliver digital products.
• Collaborate with business partners and IT teams.
• Provide technical leadership and support in SDLC.

Skills

Leadership

Analytical Thinking

Strategic Thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Java

SpringBoot

SQL

Google Cloud Platform

Job description

At CVS Health, we’re building a world of health around every consumer and surrounding ourselves with dedicated colleagues who are passionate about transforming health care.

As the nation’s leading health solutions company, we reach millions of Americans through our local presence, digital channels and more than 300,000 purpose-driven colleagues – caring for people where, when and how they choose in a way that is uniquely more connected, more convenient and more compassionate. And we do it all with heart, each and every day.

Position Summary

CVS Health Digital is looking for a dynamic and driven Senior Manager, Software Development Engineering, to lead an engineering team tasked with creating best in class experiences focused on identifying, prioritizing and shaping complex enterprise initiatives in partnership with business stakeholders. In this role, reporting directly to the Executive Director, Digital Engineering, you will be leading a team of engineers to drive the delivery of our digital products and focusing on digital transformation initiatives. You will assist in creating our next generation platform. This Senior Manager will take ownership and utilize exemplary communication skills to support, manage, and mentor engineering professionals with deep and varying technical backgrounds and experience. You should have the ability to lead end-to-end delivery of back-end applications, be comfortable working with both product and architecture teams, understand solutioning at an expert level and be data driven from an ecommerce perspective. A successful candidate will be highly motivated and passionate about raising the engineering bar within the team and be cognizant that the success of the team’s work will impact millions of CVS consumers.

In this role you will:

• Grow engineering teams by interviewing, recruiting and hiring, as well as continuously guide, coach and mentor engineers

• Provide leadership for Digital initiatives/digital transformation for ecommerce leveraging Java/J2EE stack, Microservices, Open source frameworks, Cloud

• Collaborate with various areas of the organization including business partners, product owners, architecture, security mavens, digital and IT engineering teams

• Provide ongoing maintenance, support and enhancements to existing systems and platforms

• Promote proper implementation of SAFe process techniques

• Provide support in all phases of SDLC and ensure to deliver high-quality products

• Provide recommendations for continuous improvement. Provide technical leadership direction, determining and developing approaches to solutions by coordinating multiple resources to solve complex problems

• Make informed decisions quickly and taking ownership of services and applications at scale

• Ability to understand big picture, while implementing at the detail level

• Analytical thinking - able to simplify complex problems, processes or projects into component parts explore and evaluate them systematically

• Strategic thinking – able to identify a vision along with the plans, which need to be implemented to meet the end goal, evaluating situations, decisions and issues in the short, medium and long term

• Provide technical guidance in software design and development activities

• Assist in technical and security audits and ensure audit recommendations are implemented

• Be an advocate of security best practices, champion and support the importance of security within engineering, partnering with Digital and Enterprise security teams and digital product owners to ensure compliance

• Encourage a collaborative, open and dynamic team culture where individuals and teams can realize their full potential

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of overall IT/Digital development experience on enterprise class applications

• 2+ years in a management role, leading software development teams of 8+ engineers

• 2+ years of experience leading medium to large sized teams of diverse development engineers across multiple locations

• 2+ years of experience partnering with architecture, product and program management teams to influence product development assisting or improving products

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with programming languages/frameworks: Java, SpringBoot

• Excellent knowledge with any SQL platform

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform

• Hands on experience with cloud technologies/platforms, and/or CRMs

• Good understanding and working experience in IT Security best practices and other compliance standards such as ADA, HIPAA, PCI DSS

• Experience in SAFe Agile work environments; certification of SAFe for leaders

• Experience in handling multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; thrives working in a highly iterative, agile, and open team environment

• A strong business and technical vision and the ability to translate these in business and technical approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines with optimal solutions

• Knowledge/experience in the Healthcare space, B2C and/or B2B

Education

Bachelor’s degree or, equivalent experience (HS diploma + 4 years relevant experience)

Business Overview

Bring your heart to CVS Health Every one of us at CVS Health shares a single, clear purpose: Bringing our heart to every moment of your health. This purpose guides our commitment to deliver enhanced human-centric health care for a rapidly changing world. Anchored in our brand — with heart at its center — our purpose sends a personal message that how we deliver our services is just as important as what we deliver. Our Heart At Work Behaviors support this purpose. We want everyone who works at CVS Health to feel empowered by the role they play in transforming our culture and accelerating our ability to innovate and deliver solutions to make health care more personal, convenient and affordable. We strive to promote and sustain a culture of diversity, inclusion and belonging every day. CVS Health is an affirmative action employer, and is an equal opportunity employer, as are the physician-owned businesses for which CVS Health provides management services. We do not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, promotion, or any other personnel action based on race, ethnicity, color, national origin, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. We proudly support and encourage people with military experience (active, veterans, reservists and National Guard) as well as military spouses to apply for CVS Health job opportunities.

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

$118,450.00 - $284,280.00

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. This position also includes an award target in the company’s equity award program.

Our people fuel our future. Our teams reflect the customers, patients, members and communities we serve and we are committed to fostering a workplace where every colleague feels valued and that they belong.

Great benefits for great people

We take pride in our comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits – investing in the physical, emotional and financial wellness of our colleagues and their families to help them be the healthiest they can be. In addition to our competitive wages, our great benefits include:

• Affordable medical plan options, a 401(k) plan (including matching company contributions), and an employee stock purchase plan.

• No-cost programs for all colleagues including wellness screenings, tobacco cessation and weight management programs, confidential counseling and financial coaching.

• Benefit solutions that address the different needs and preferences of our colleagues including paid time off, flexible work schedules, family leave, dependent care resources, colleague assistance programs, tuition assistance, retiree medical access and many other benefits depending on eligibility.

For more information, visithttps://jobs.cvshealth.com/us/en/benefits

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 06/15/2025

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