Principal Software Development Engineer

Location: Michigan

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 Our Consumer Experience and Analytics organization, within CVS Health's Data, Digital, Analytics, and Technology (DDAT) organization, is seeking a hands-on, passionate, and people-focused Principal Software Development Engineer to join our high-energy, growing team. In this role, you will help make a meaningful difference in the lives of our consumers by driving AI-powered innovation that transforms how members access health information and receive personalized support throughout their healthcare journey.

As part of CVS Health's mission to transform health and wellness through engaging, best-in-class digital experiences, you will play a key role in building an integrated platform that powers innovative products, enhances consumer engagement, and helps revolutionize the future of health and  this role, you will help shape the future of healthcare technology by building innovative applications and products at the forefront of cloud, data, and AI-driven solutions.

Leveraging your deep technical expertise, you will join a high-performing architecture team responsible for developing a cloud-native platform designed to transform healthcare experiences and improve the lives of hundreds of millions of consumers.

As a Principal Software Development Engineer, you will operate within a large-scale product, engineering, and architecture ecosystem, leading strategic technical initiatives across one or more value streams, Agile Release Trains (ARTs), or enterprise platforms. Success in this role requires exceptional partnership skills, broad technical depth, strong communication abilities, and a strategic mindset capable of bridging business objectives with technology solutions.

Key

Qualifications:

Proven leader with the demonstrated ability to create technical solutions in large organizations with complex business requirements and constraints.

Ability to work with multiple stakeholders, including Business, Product, Engineering and Platform teams, influencing application design, data flows, and extensible platform architectures.

Takes a disciplined approach to software development and problem-solving, with a proven ability to decompose complex challenges into actionable plans within an Agile environment.

Exceptional systems thinker who can seamlessly navigate between high-level architectural strategy and detailed technical implementation.

Experience designing and implementing modern software architectures, including microservices and micro-frontend patterns, while driving large-scale solutions across multiple applications and teams.

Broad technical expertise spanning cloud platforms, enterprise applications, microsevices, APIs, data analytics, networking, and large-scale systems.

Good understanding of ADA and other regulatory compliances including PCI, PII, and PHI.Excellent collaboration, influencing, negotiation, coaching, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build strong coalitions across teams and organizations.

Outstanding communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to effectively evangelize technical vision and drive alignment among diverse stakeholders.

Passionate about technology, innovation, and continuous learning, with a high degree of technical curiosity and aptitude.

Responsibilities Include:

Working closely with Product Managers/Owners, Application Architects and Engineering Leads to provide guidance on implementation of reference architecture solutions that demonstrate best in class user experiences.

Evaluating emerging technologies, leading proof-of-concept (POC) initiatives, and developing architectural recommendations that validate technical approaches and accelerate innovation.

Developing solutions that are well engineered, flexible, resilient, operable, maintainable, and can be delivered on schedule, while ensuring a balance between tactical and strategic technology solutions.

Aurthor white papers, guides, how-to's, and other technical documentation that clearly explains architectural guidelines, vision, technical direction, and serves as a reference for the internal developer community.

Excellent collaboration, influencing, evangelization, negotiation, coaching, mentoring, and coalition-building skills, with the ability to work with across all levels (e.g. jr. to VP) and job functions (e.g. product, platform, developers, Dev Ops).Champion a user-centric approach to product development, ensuring accessibility, privacy, and security are embedded into every solution. Ensure the secure handling of PII and PHI data and that…