Senior Data Engineer

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 highly skilled and driven individual contributor to join our Enterprise Observability and Security Engineering team. This role focuses on building, scaling, and operationalizing the enterprise observability lakehouse that powers threat detection, incident response, and platform visibility across hybrid cloud environments. The ideal candidate will demonstrate deep expertise in Databricks, large-scale telemetry processing, and OTEL-aligned observability architectures. This position requires strong engineering rigor, the ability to design high-volume log, metric, and trace pipelines, and a passion for improving security and reliability through data. A critical aspect of the role includes partnering with Security Engineering, SRE, and Cloud teams to ensure telemetry is complete, trustworthy, and actionable. What we expect of you Build, scale, and maintain enterprise-grade log, metric, and trace pipelines using Databricks, cloud data lakes, and distributed data processing engines. Implement ingestion and transformation workflows using Cribl, Vector, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar technologies. Design and expand an Observability Lakehouse aligned to OpenTelemetry (OTEL) data models and standards. Normalize and model high-volume security and observability data for detection, forensics, and operational intelligence use cases. Develop automated ETL/ELT frameworks, Delta Lake architectures, and data quality checks for unstructured and semi-structured telemetry. Collaborate closely with Security Engineering, SRE, Cloud, and SOC teams to enhance enterprise visibility and improve detection fidelity. Build CI/CD workflows and reusable IaC-driven patterns for pipeline deployment and automation. Troubleshoot performance bottlenecks and drive continuous improvements in reliability, latency, and cost efficiency. Contribute to team knowledge sharing and engineering standards focused on observability, security, and reliability.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

5+ years of experience building or supporting log, metric, or trace pipelines aligned to OTEL or similar telemetry standards in a Data, Security Data, or Observability Engineering level role. 5+ years of hands‑on experience with Databricks, Spark, or large-scale distributed data processing systems. 5+ years of experience working with cloud services across AWS, Azure, or GCP (storage, eventing, compute, or equivalent). 5+ years of experience with SQL and Python in production data environments.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Experience with Cribl, Vector, Kafka, or similar high-volume ingestion technologies. Background supporting SIEM/SOAR, detection engineering, or threat analytics platforms. Familiarity with Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, metadata management, and lineage tooling. Understanding of enterprise observability platforms (Splunk, Datadog, Elastic, etc.). Knowledge of security governance, auditing, access controls, and sensitive-data handling. Experience with IaC tooling (Terraform, ARM/Bicep, CloudFormation). Familiarity with cloud orchestration technologies (Azure Functions, AWS Lambda, GCP Cloud Functions, Logic Apps, Kubernetes-based platforms). Strong communication skills for both deeply technical and executive audiences. Passion for observability, security, continuous learning, and platform-level engineering.

EDUCATION

Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or equivalent work experience (HS diploma + 4 years relevant experience).

BUSINESS OVERVIEW

Bring your heart to CVS Health Every one of us at CVS Health shares a single, clear purpose: Bringing our heart to every moment of your health. This purpose guides our commitment to deliver enhanced human‑centric health care for a rapidly changing world. Anchored in our brand - with heart at its center - our purpose sends a personal message that how we deliver our services is just as important as what we deliver. Our Heart At Work Behaviors™ support this purpose. We want everyone who works at CVS Health to feel empowered by the role they play in transforming our culture and accelerating our ability to innovate and deliver solutions to make health care more personal, convenient and affordable. We strive to promote and sustain a culture of diversity, inclusion and belonging every day. CVS Health is an affirmative action employer, and is an equal opportunity employer, as are the physician‑owned businesses for which CVS Health provides management services. We do not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, promotion, or any other personnel action based on race, ethnicity, color, national origin, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. We proudly support and encourage people with military experience (active, veterans, reservists and National Guard) as well as military spouses to apply for CVS Health job opportunities. Anticipated Weekly Hours 40 Time Type Full time Pay Range The typical pay range for this role is: $83,430.00 - $222,480.00 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. 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 our comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits - investing in the physical, emotional and financial wellness of our colleagues and their families to help them be the healthiest they can be. In addition to our competitive wages, our great benefits include: Affordable medical plan options, a 401(k) plan (including matching company contributions), and an employee stock purchase plan . No-cost programs for all colleagues including wellness screenings, tobacco cessation and weight management programs, confidential counseling and financial coaching. Benefit solutions that address the different needs and preferences of our colleagues including paid time off, flexible work schedules, family leave, dependent care resources, colleague assistance programs, tuition assistance, retiree medical access and many other benefits depending on eligibility. For more information, visit We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 03/31/2026 Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws. #J-18808-Ljbffr Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement