Senior Manager - Platform Engineering

Senior Manager - Platform Engineering

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: CVS Health is seeking a Senior Manager - Platform Engineering to lead a team of engineers building and operating the platforms, tools, and services that power our digital healthcare experiences. In this role, you will own the technical direction, delivery, and operational excellence of your team while partnering closely with product, architecture, and peer engineering leaders to drive outcomes for our customers and our business.

You will build and grow a high-performing engineering team, establish a culture of continuous improvement, and drive adoption of modern engineering practices across the organization. You thrive at the intersection of people leadership and technical depth — you can credibly engage in architectural discussions, unblock your team on complex problems, and translate business priorities into a clear engineering roadmap.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leading a team of engineers, including hiring, coaching, career development, and performance management
• Setting technical direction and driving architectural decisions for your team's domain, balancing innovation with reliability and maintainability
• Partnering with Product and Architecture to define roadmaps, decompose initiatives into deliverables, and ensure alignment across teams
• Driving operational excellence through investment in observability, incident response, SLOs, and production readiness practices
• Establishing and evolving engineering processes that enable your team to deliver high-quality software at pace — CI/CD, code review, testing strategies, and release management
• Building a culture of ownership, psychological safety, and continuous learning within your team
• Managing delivery across multiple workstreams, removing blockers, managing dependencies, and communicating status and risk to leadership
• Contributing to the broader engineering organization through participation in technical governance, architecture reviews, and cross-team initiatives
• Championing developer experience and engineering productivity improvements that benefit teams beyond your own
• Staying current with industry trends and technologies, evaluating their applicability to our platform and advocating for strategic adoption where appropriate

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience
• 5+ years of experience operating production services at scale on AWS, GCP, or Azure, with a focus on reliability, performance, and security
• 3+ years of experience directing or managing engineering teams including performance growth, capacity planning, and other related management tasks

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with cloud-native development, distributed systems, and modern software delivery practices
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS), and CI/CD tooling
• Experience delivering complex, cross-functional engineering initiatives on time and within scope
• Experience in platform engineering, developer experience, or infrastructure teams
• Experience with Python, Go, Java, or Node.js in a production context
• Experience with observability platforms (Datadog, New Relic, Grafana, Splunk) and SRE practices
• Experience contributing to engineering culture initiatives such as guilds, tech talks, or open-source programs

Education:

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

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

$130,295.00 - $260,590.00

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 offering a comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits that reflects our commitment to our colleagues and their families.

This full‑time position is eligible for a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial well‑being of colleagues and their families. The benefits for this position include medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other resources, based on eligibility.

Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments.