Senior Platform Engineer, Data & Performance Enablement

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. Overview As a Senior Platform Engineer on our Data & Performance Enablement team, you will take a significant role in designing and implementing the platforms that manage all distributed event streaming technologies at HCD. You will own the development of key features for our database, messaging, and data warehouse platforms. Your work will directly enable our engineering teams to build high-performance, data-intensive applications. You will mentor other engineers, collaborate with customer teams, and contribute to the technical roadmap for your area. Your Role: Design, build, and maintain key components of our data platform automation for provisioning, backups, and user management. Troubleshoot and resolve complex performance and reliability issues in our data systems, often serving as an escalation point for the team. Proactively identify opportunities to improve data streaming services, security, scalability, and automation. Participate in an on-call rotation to support the team's critical services. Mentor junior engineers on the team, providing guidance on database administration, query optimization, and DBRE principles. Contribute to the technical roadmap by researching new data technologies and proposing innovative solutions. Required Qualifications: 5 years of applicable experience Strong experience with messaging platforms (Kafka/Redis) Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Proficient in at least one scripting language (e.g., Bash, Python). Solid experience with at least one major cloud provider (Azure or AWS preferred) and their managed offerings. Preferred Qualifications: A product mindset and empathy for developer customers, with experience helping teams design scalable data models. A pragmatic approach to problem-solving and a proven ability to deliver complex technical projects. Experience with GitHub Actions or similar pipeline technologies. Education Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent experience. 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 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. We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 06/19/2026 Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws. Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people. Our employees are self-disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area.