Principal Engineer - Digital

Position Summary 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 looking for a Principal Engineer — Digital to serve as one of the most impactful individual contributors in the organization. This is a role for someone who can see, shape, and set the technical direction of our entire digital ecosystem. You will be part of the team that has the technical authority across mobile (iOS & Android), web, cloud infrastructure, AI/ML platforms, backend systems, security, developer tooling, and agentic AI. You will define architectural standards, evaluate emerging technologies, mentor senior engineers, and make the high‑stakes technical decisions that no single product team can own alone. If you thrive at the intersection of systems thinking, deep technical craft, and organizational influence — and want your work to touch the health of tens of millions of Americans every day — this is the role for you. Key Responsibilities Architecture & Technical Strategy: Define and own the end‑to‑end digital architecture strategy, ensuring coherence and consistency across mobile, web, cloud, and AI surfaces; author and steward Architecture Decision Records; evaluate and validate major architectural choices; identify and eliminate architectural debt; establish and enforce engineering standards, design principles, and best practices; drive technology radar decisions; define web architecture standards; lead performance engineering for web. AI Architecture, Agentic AI & AI Solutioning: Define the organization’s AI architecture strategy across the full spectrum; strategist for foundational model selection, inference infrastructure, vector databases, embedding pipelines, and responsible AI design patterns; build and strategize AI systems for mobile apps/web; lead agentic AI system design using orchestration frameworks; ensure AI systems meet explainability, fairness, and compliance requirements; identify AI solutioning opportunities and drive proof‑of‑concepts to production. Cloud Infrastructure & Backend Systems: Architect scalable, resilient cloud infrastructure; define backend service architecture; lead platform engineering efforts; design and govern data architecture decisions; establish SLO/SLA frameworks; error budget policies; on‑call standards. Security & Compliance: Lead digital security architecture; zero‑trust network design; identity and access management; lead threat modeling; enforce SAST, DAST, SCA, container scanning standards; own compliance architecture for HIPAA, SOC 2 Type II, PCI‑DSS; partner with security team on vulnerability response, penetration testing remediation, and incident response planning; drive security‑by‑default culture. Technical Leadership & Organizational Enablement: Provide technical mentorship; partner with Engineering Directors, VPs; drive cross‑team technical alignment; create and maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, decision records; represent engineering in cross‑functional forums. Required Qualifications 10+ years of software engineering experience, with organization‑wide technical scope. 5+ years of hands‑on expertise in at least two of: native iOS (Swift/SwiftUI), native Android (Kotlin/Jetpack), or modern web (React/Next.js/TypeScript). 5+ years of cloud architecture experience (GCP, Azure or AWS) running production workloads at scale. 5+ years of security engineering experience with real compliance exposure. 3+ years of AI engineering experience: shipping production systems built on foundation models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or open‑weight equivalents), including prompt engineering, RAG, evaluation pipelines, and fine‑tuning where appropriate. 2+ years of hands‑on experience building agentic AI systems using orchestration frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, or equivalent. 2+ years of broad AI architecture expertise: model selection tradeoffs, inference infrastructure, vector databases, embedding pipelines, and responsible AI design patterns. 2+ years of AI Delivery experience: designing and shipping AI/ML‑powered products at production scale. Preferred Qualifications Track record of driving cross‑functional technical decisions at an organizational level. Experience establishing CI/CD, testing, and observability standards adopted by multiple teams. Familiarity with MLOps practices and model fine‑tuning pipelines. Flutter or cross‑platform mobile development experience. Experience building internal developer platforms, design systems, or platform engineering capabilities. Open‑source contributions or published technical writing. Experience with App Store Connect API, Play Developer API, and automated release tooling (Fastlane, etc.). Familiarity with observability and APM tooling (Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace, Firebase Performance). Education Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience (HS diploma + 4 years relevant experience). Pay Range The typical pay range for this role is $144,200.00 – $288,400.00, representing the base hourly rate or base annual full‑time salary. 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. This position also includes an award target in the company’s equity award program. Benefits 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 include medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other resources, based on eligibility. EEO Statement Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws. #J-18808-Ljbffr 9025 CVS Shared Services Resources LLC