Senior Real-Time Data Platform Engineer (Cache CDC)

CVS Health Corporation; Town of Florida (NY); Hybrid; USD 107,000 - 261,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Retirement plan

Bonus program

Job summary

CVS Health Corporation is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to design, build, and support a near real-time transactional cache platform that powers APIs, digital experiences, and downstream services.

The ideal candidate will lead CDC pipelines, transform relational data for MongoDB, and optimize PostgreSQL while mentoring teams and ensuring reliability and scalability across cloud-native environments.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in data engineering or data platform development.
• 5+ years designing and implementing enterprise-scale data platforms and distributed systems.
• Experience with UniVerse or UniData operational databases.
• Proficiency in PICK BASIC, wIntegrate, Unix/Linux, and SDLC methodologies.
• Strong experience with Change Data Capture (CDC), replication technologies, and near real-time data movement patterns.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of a near real-time transactional cache platform supporting APIs, applications, and digital experiences.
• Design and support Change Data Capture (CDC) pipelines that replicate data from UniVerse into PostgreSQL using vendor-supported replication technologies.
• Develop and maintain transformation pipelines that convert operational relational data into optimized MongoDB document structures.
• Design and evolve MongoDB document models, indexing strategies, partitioning approaches, and query patterns to support high-throughput, low-latency API consumption.
• Partner with API and application development teams to define and deliver cache-ready domain models that meet performance and scalability requirements.
• Own platform reliability, observability, troubleshooting, incident response, and operational support for production transactional cache environments.

Skills

Data engineering

Distributed systems

Python

SQL

Unix/Linux

Leadership

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

UniVerse/UniData

Kubernetes

Cloud (GCP/AWS)

CDC technologies

Job description

CVS Health Corporation is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to design, build, and support a near real-time transactional cache platform that powers APIs, digital experiences, and downstream services.

The ideal candidate will lead CDC pipelines, transform relational data for MongoDB, and optimize PostgreSQL while mentoring teams and ensuring reliability and scalability across cloud-native environments.