Software Development Engineer – Application Architecture

Position: Staff Software Development Engineer – Application Architecture
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

If you’re eager to make a meaningful impact through deep technical leadership, consider a role in technology with CVS Health. Our journey calls for senior

As a Staff Software Development Engineer – Application Architecture, you serve as a technical authority for CAS architecture and design. You define, evolve, and govern architectural patterns across multiple teams while remaining hands‐on with design, code, and critical technical decisions. This role is central to CAS modernization as we evolve from a large on‐prem monolith to a cloud‐ready, API‐first, domain‐aligned platform.

As a
** Staff Software Development Engineer – Architecture**, you will serve as a technical authority for CAS application architecture and design. You will define, evolve, and govern architectural patterns while remaining hands‐on with design, code, and technical decision‐making. This role is critical to CAS modernization as we evolve from a large, on‐prem monolith to a scalable, cloud‐ready, API‐first platform.
** Key Responsibilities
** Drive API‐first design with consistent standards for versioning, backward compatibility, contract testing, and developer experience to enable internal and partner interoperability. Establish observability requirements across services (metrics, logs, traces, alerts), operational runbooks, and incident response expectations aligned to SLOs. Ensure AI solutions comply with PHI security and privacy requirements, including data minimization, encryption, access controls, and audit logging.
** Required Qualifications
** 10+ years of software engineering experience with demonstrated impact ven experience leading application architecture in large, complex enterprise systems. Deep experience designing APIs, integrations, and data‐driven systems. Excellent communication and influencing skills across organizational boundaries. Deep experience designing APIs, service integrations, and data Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence across teams and organizational boundaries.
** Preferred Qualifications
** Experience modernizing monolithic systems into cloud‐native or hybrid architectures.

Experience with DDD, event‐driven architecture, and API governance. Hands‐on full‐stack experience across UI, services, integration, data, and platform layers. Experience applying AI/ML or Generative AI in regulated environments with MLOps and Responsible AI controls.

Experience architecting operational analytics platforms, including dashboards/KPIs, semantic layers, and analytics automation tools. Strong SQL and enterprise data platform experience (e.g., Teradata, SQL Server, Oracle).

Experience with Python‐based automation and workflow orchestration. Experience in healthcare, pharmacy, insurance, or other highly regulated industries. Familiarity with HIPAA and related compliance requirements. Experience modernizing legacy systems into cloud

Familiarity with domain

Experience with Azure and/or GCP platforms. Prior experience in healthcare, pharmacy, insurance, or highly regulated enterprise environments. Knowledge of regulatory and compliance requirements such as HIPAA, PCI DSS, or FedRAMP.
** Education
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