Principal Engineer, Technology Transformation & AI Enablement
CVS Health3 days ago
Base Salary
$144k - $288k/yr
Responsibilities
- Serve as a strategic technical advisor and influence enterprise technology strategy, standards, architecture, and engineering execution across multiple organizations.
- Lead modernization and transformation initiatives, including cloud adoption, platform evolution, application transformation, and technical debt reduction.
- Define reference architectures, implementation frameworks, reusable technology patterns, engineering standards, and governance practices.
- Guide adoption of cloud-native platforms, platform engineering, DevSecOps, CI/CD, engineering automation, and developer productivity solutions.
- Evaluate AI technologies and provide technical leadership for AI-assisted software development, testing, automation, governance, guardrails, and operational workflows.
- Mentor senior engineers, architects, and technical leaders; lead communities of practice and serve as a technical escalation point.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, software architecture, platform engineering, or related technical leadership roles.
- 5+ years of experience leading large-scale modernization, transformation, cloud adoption, or enterprise architecture initiatives.
- Deep expertise in enterprise application architecture, software engineering practices, distributed systems, and modern software delivery.
- Experience with cloud platforms, modern application architectures, platform engineering, DevSecOps, CI/CD pipelines, engineering automation, and developer productivity solutions.
- Experience evaluating and enabling AI-assisted engineering capabilities and emerging technology adoption.
- Demonstrated ability to influence technical decisions across large organizations without direct management authority and mentor senior technical contributors.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field, or an equivalent combination of education and practical experience.
- Preferred experience includes healthcare or other regulated industries, legacy application modernization, Kubernetes, OpenShift, containerization, infrastructure automation, engineering governance, RAG, agentic workflows, model orchestration, evaluation frameworks, ADRs, domain-driven design, event-driven architectures, APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and relevant technical certifications.
- A master's degree in a related technical or business technology discipline is preferred.
Benefits
- Full-time position with medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other benefits based on eligibility.
- Eligible for CVS Health bonus, commission, or short-term incentive programs and an equity award target.
- Remote work is available from anywhere in the continental USA.
- Anticipated application window closes December 31, 2026.
Tech Stack
KubernetesOpenShift
Categories
About CVS Health
CVS Health is a U.S. health care company that operates thousands of retail pharmacies, runs the CVS Caremark pharmacy benefits manager, and owns the Aetna health insurance business. It sells prescriptions, retail health goods, and insurance plans, and provides primary and urgent care through MinuteClinic and other services for consumers, employers, and government programs. Founded in 1963 and headquartered in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, it is a public company traded on the NYSE.