Staff Platform Engineer

Role Description

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.

• Define and drive the technical architecture and engineering roadmap for the application Platforms, ensuring alignment with business objectives, enterprise standards, and long-term scalability requirements.
• Design and implement cloud-native platform solutions that support enterprise-scale claims data ingestion, transformation, storage, governance, and consumption.
• Provide technical leadership for data streaming and event-driven architectures, leveraging technologies such as Kafka, CDC, and cloud-native messaging patterns to enable reliable and scalable data movement.
• Lead the design and optimization of data lake and transformation solutions utilizing AWS S3, AWS Glue, Spark, and related services to support Raw, Silver, and Gold data processing layers.
• Establish engineering standards and best practices for application development, API design, microservices architecture, cloud infrastructure, data modeling, security, and platform reliability.
• Guide the development of secure, scalable APIs and microservices using Java, Spring Boot, and AWS-native services to enable governed access to enterprise claims data assets.
• Collaborate with Product, Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, and Business stakeholders to translate business capabilities and data requirements into practical technology solutions.
• Drive operational excellence by defining and implementing strategies for platform availability, resiliency, observability, performance, scalability, disaster recovery, and production support.
• Conduct architecture reviews, design reviews, and technical risk assessments to ensure solution quality, compliance, security, maintainability, and adherence to enterprise standards.
• Mentor and develop engineering talent across Technology Platform Engineering and Software Engineering teams, providing technical guidance, coaching, and leadership to foster a high-performing engineering culture.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software design and development experience in enterprise data platform applications, including cloud-native architectures and Agile development methodologies.
• 5+ years of experience with public cloud platforms with demonstrated expertise in designing and implementing cloud-native solutions.
• 5+ years of experience designing, implementing, and supporting data streaming, data processing, and/or data transformation solutions.
• 3+ years of experience with relational and non-relational databases such as technologies such as Amazon Aurora, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cosmos DB or Microsoft SQL Server and with ability to design scalable schemas, data models, and storage strategies.
• 2+ years of experience in production operations support of applications and in using of observability platform tools.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale cloud data platforms on AWS using services such as S3, Glue, Spark, Aurora PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and related cloud technologies.
• Hands-on experience building event-driven and distributed systems utilizing Kafka, CDC, microservices, APIs, and cloud-native architecture patterns.
• Strong understanding of modern software engineering, DevOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, observability, reliability engineering, and operational best practices.
• Working knowledge of healthcare data domains, including claims, member, provider, or clinical data, and familiarity with HIPAA, PHI, and healthcare regulatory requirements.
• Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives, influence architectural decisions, and deliver business outcomes across multiple teams and stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ownership mindset with a track record of driving solutions from concept through production while balancing quality, scalability, security, and operational excellence.
• Excellent collaboration, communication, leadership, and mentoring skills with a proven ability to foster a high-performing, inclusive engineering culture focused on accountability, innovation, continuous learning, and teamwork.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is: $118,450.00 - $236,900.00. 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.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial well-being of colleagues and their families.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Paid time off.
• Retirement savings options.
• Wellness programs and other resources, based on eligibility.

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 08/22/2026. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.