Senior Manager - Software Development 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.

Expectation For The Role:

• Own risk mitigation and production stability by proactively identifying system vulnerabilities, leading root cause analysis, and driving timely resolution of complex production issues to ensure high availability and minimal downtime
• Oversee the full software development lifecycle (SDLC), including requirements engineering, system design, development, testing, and deployment, ensuring adherence to modern engineering standards, secure coding practices, and scalable architecture principles
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Data, Infrastructure, and business stakeholders to translate functional requirements into technical solutions, align priorities, and resolve dependencies while maintaining efficient delivery pipelines
• Continuously evaluate and adopt emerging technologies, frameworks, and engineering best practices, leading innovation through proof-of-concepts and informed technology selection to enhance system performance and developer productivity
• Build and develop high-performing engineering teams by hiring top talent, conducting technical performance evaluations, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement, technical excellence, and knowledge sharing
• Provide leadership for Digital initiatives/digital transformation for ecommerce leveraging Java/J2EE stack, Microservices, Open source frameworks, Cloud
• Ability to understand big picture, while implementing at the detail level
• Analytical thinking - able to simplify complex problems, processes or projects into component parts explore and evaluate them systematically
• Strategic thinking – able to identify a vision along with the plans, which need to be implemented to meet the end goal, evaluating situations, decisions and issues in the short, medium and long term
• Assist in technical and security audits and ensure audit recommendations are implemented
• Be an advocate of security best practices, champion and support the importance of security within engineering, partnering with Digital and Enterprise security teams and digital product owners to ensure compliance

• 7+ years of overall software engineering experience with at least 5+ years of experience of leading projects or managing directs
• 7+ years of experience using and/or managing projects using Java, Spring boot, Kafka to build/deploy, and maintain software applications using cloud platforms
• 3+ years of experience leading cross-functional teams without direct authority, including documented collaboration with engineering, architecture, security, and business stakeholders in a matrixed organization
• 3+ years of experience defining technology strategy and leading the adoption and operationalization of technologies such as AI/ML, cloud services, automation, and developer productivity tools in a large-scale enterprise environment with evidence of measurable impact (e.g., reduction in MTTR, cost savings, efficiency gains, or adoption KPIs)
• Strong expertise in cloud platforms, distributed systems, APIs, microservices, and modern software development practices

• Experience with retail or health care industry with background in fulfillment, dispensing & delivery
• Experience with developing in AWS or GCP or Azure or similar public cloud environments (GCP preferred)
• Proven success driving technical strategy, engineering excellence, and organizational transformation
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and cross-functional collaboration skills
• Experience managing multiple teams and developing engineering leaders
• Ability to balance technical depth with business outcomes and strategic decision-making
• Ensured code quality and technical excellence through reviews, testing strategies, and debt management
• Owned system reliability and operational performance, including monitoring, incident management, and SLAs
• Good understanding and working experience in IT Security best practices and other compliance standards such as ADA, HIPAA, PCI DSS
• Experience in SAFe Agile work environments; certification of SAFe for leaders would be a plus
• Knowledge/experience in the Healthcare space, B2C and/or B2B is a plus

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