Principal Software Engineer - Healthcare Utilization Management
Company: Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement
Location: Boston
Posted on: May 23, 2025
Job Description:
At CVS Health, we're building a world of health around every
consumer and surrounding ourselves with dedicated colleagues who
are passionate about transforming health care.
As the nation's leading health solutions company, we reach millions
of Americans through our local presence, digital channels and more
than 300,000 purpose-driven colleagues - caring for people where,
when and how they choose in a way that is uniquely more connected,
more convenient and more compassionate. And we do it all with
heart, each and every day.
Position Summary
Our Utilization Management Analytics Engineering team within the
Analytics & Behavior Change (A&BC) division of our Data,
Digital, Analytics, Technology (DDAT) organization is seeking a
full-stack Principal Software Development Engineer. We are looking
for passionate, driven individuals who are ready to use their
expertise to guide a team of analytics engineers (UI, software, ML)
who support Aetna's UM data science team. Our work supports
operational workflows with our healthcare benefits business,
supporting clinical decision makers by offering tools that ensure
that the most critical information about our members and their
healthcare journey is easily accessible and interpretable when
needed.
This technical leadership role will help guide a broad technical
portfolio of software and machine learning assets that ensure our
clinical teams can focus on the complex work of applying their
subject matter expertise to ensure the right outcomes for our
members. As the healthcare landscape evolves and changes, our
team's work is a crucial part of the overall CVS Health mission:
transforming care to drive superior health outcomes and a seamless
patient and consumer experience.
As a Principal SDE, you will be responsible for building
best-in-class full-stack real time applications that integrate
advanced analytics capabilities (predictive models, LLMs, vector
search) into complex real time applications built within the Google
Cloud Platform. You will work on cutting-edge products, leveraging
your expertise in cloud technologies, software architecture. You
will join a high-caliber engineering team dedicated to delivering
impact quickly while ensuring our code base and architecture are
constantly maturing, allowing us to iterate quickly while we
explore bold technical solutions to incredibly complex problems,
and then pivot to scaling execution across the lives of
millions.
Responsibilities:
- Software Development Mastery: Demonstrated excellence in
software development with a disciplined approach to
problem-solving. Excels at breaking down complex problems into
multi-step plans within an Agile development environment. Deep
understanding of SOLID principles and similar software development
philosophies.
- Engineering Excellence: Develops solutions that are well
engineered, flexible, resilient, operable, maintainable, and can be
delivered on schedule. Ensures a balance between tactical and
strategic technology solutions. Ensure all NFRs (e.g., performance,
availability and fail-over, scalability, security, etc.) are
properly articulated, and work with all parties to guarantee that
the software products that are delivered meet these objectives.
- Architectural Expertise: Strong architectural sense with
experience in various software architectures and messaging
patterns. Proven ability to drive large solutions across multiple
applications. Able to analyze existing architectures and develop
opportunities for improvements in alignment with industry best
practices.
- Cloud Distributed Systems: Experience working in high-volume,
high-frequency distributed systems and tackling the hardest
scalability problems presented. Experience with major cloud
platforms (GCP preferred) and modern service, interface, and
messaging patterns.
- Full Stack Mastery: Experienced building full-stack
applications leveraging front-end frameworks (React (preferred),
Angular, other JS frameworks). Expertise connecting a UI to APIs
(FastAPI or other Python-based frameworks preferred), all the way
to the backend (ideally OLAP cloud data stores) - and offering
technical and product leadership across the stack.
- On the Cutting Edge: Experience integrating excellence in
software development, cloud platforms, and distributed system
design and architecture into systems involving machine learning and
language models. Investigate and design novel and unique technology
solutions and lead the building of POCs to validate technical
hypothesis and provide reference architectural solutions.
- Analytics & Non-Relational Exposure: Broad knowledge
encompassing the data and analytics space: work orchestration, OLAP
and non-relational databases (BigQuery, Mongo Atlas, KV stores,
caches). You know the right data storage for the job and understand
how to integrate them with large-scale service architectures.
- Critical Thinking: Strong critical thinking skills with the
ability to move fluidly between high-level abstract thinking and
detailed implementation. Strong collaboration skills in technical
settings, able to help others understand complex ideas by
simplifying and clarifying with ease.
- Leadership: Proven leader with the ability to mentor strong,
cohesive technical teams. Excellent collaboration, influencing,
coaching, and coalition-building skills. We support and challenge
each other to bring our best work, every day.
- Passion and Engagement: Passionate about technology with a high
technical aptitude. Engaged, focused, and driven to deliver
best-in-class solutions.
- Communication Skills: Strong relationship-building and
communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with
stakeholders at all levels.
- Regulatory Compliance & Security: Good understanding of
healthcare of other regulated industries, particularly how to
manage regulated data in a complex distributed environment where
encryption is the default. Ensure that all PII & PHI data is
handled in a secure manner and that solutions account for threat
vectors.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of software industry experience with 4+ years as a
technical leader.
- 5+ years leading technical architecture initiatives that impact
many value streams.
- 5+ years designing and developing distributed systems,
employing a disciplined approach.
- 8+ years involved in requirements analysis, estimation within a
formal SDLC.
- 8+ years of mastery with development languages (Python, Java,
C#, Go, etc.).
- 8+ years of relational databases, including in the cloud.
- 5+ years of non-relational databases (document stores, KV
stores, caches).
- 5+ years architecting solutions in any major cloud.
- 5+ years with micro-services architecture, APIs, real-time
system integrations.
- 5+ years of automated unit and integrating testing.
- 3+ years of experience and mastery with Python.
- 3+ years with asynchronous messaging.
- 2+ years with machine learning models in a production
environment.
- 1+ years with large language models in a production
environment.
Preferred Qualifications
- 2+ years of hands on experience building LLM pipelines using
OCR and various LLM models like Gemini, GPT 4, GPT 4.0 etc
- 2+ years of hands of experience on building UI components
(React JS, Angular)
- Experience building and operating large-scale real-time
applications
- Knowledge in GCP architecture, commands and experience
designing & optimizing software and data engineering patterns
- Ability to manage multiple competing priorities with minimal
supervision. Self-directed.
- Excellent communications and presentation skills with the
ability to communicate effectively in visual, verbal, and written
form to teams, clients, and leadership.
- Strong architectural skills, including diagramming
- Software or analytics experience within the healthcare
industry.
- Experience in building large scale CI/CD and DevOps
pipelines.
- Experience related to security-oriented projects.
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a closely related
discipline, or an equivalent combination of formal education and
experience.
- Master's degree is a plus
Pay Range
The typical pay range for this role is:
$144,200.00 - $288,400.00
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 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
https://jobs.cvshealth.com/us/en/benefits
We anticipate the application window for this opening will close
on: 06/30/2025
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be
considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and
local laws.
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