Principal Software Development Engineer

Principal Software Development Engineer

Requirements

• 10+ years of hands-on information technology experience in systems analysis, application design, application development, and application program development with leading teams
• 7+ years of development experience in the following languages: Java, Python, Spring Boot and some hand-on working knowledge of JavaScript, AngularJS, and/or NodeJS
• 5+ years of experience in building or leading large-scale applications
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with enterprise cloud initiatives and solutions with cloud computing technologies and have a track record developing in GCP/AWS on a public cloud environment
• 5+ years of experience in managing stakeholder’s requirements, and technical solutions
• 5+ years of designing and developing modern microservices and cost-effective API’s
• 3+ years of software development experience, with a strong emphasis on AI technologies, particularly Generative AI and Large Language Models and familiarity with AI/ML frameworks and libraries (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn)
• 3+ years of experience in one or more of the following DevOps tools: Kubernetes, Argo, GIT, Jenkins, Maven, JUnit, Docker, JMeter, Antifactory
• 3+ year experience with Kafka or open-source distributions
• 3+ years of experience working on CI/CD Pipeline automation

Responsibilities

• Establish and ensure adherence to technical direction, standards, guidelines, and methodology for use of specified technologies in the department
• Lead the Technical Advisory council that performs application architectural reviews on department initiatives
• Partner with teams and serve as subject matter expert to provide benchmarked solutions to multiple, complex technical projects/initiatives within own area of expertise and organize cross-departmental application architectural solutions
• Influence the technical standards and tool selection for the entire company
• Collaborate with Pharmacy Tower Architecture and Enterprise Architecture for integrated infrastructure designs
• Vendor technology evaluation and influence
• Work with external development firms to evaluate the strength of their platforms as candidates for selection to be added to CVS’ environment
• Influence the vendors’ technical direction to align with CVS’
• Architect for backward/forward compatibility and insulation from the shortcomings of vendor software
• Develop and improve strategic technical direction for functional areas
• Maintain the departmental strategic multi-year roadmap and author new additions to it
• Align with the Enterprise technology roadmap and extend it to include technology useful to the Specialty department
• Use quantitative measures to guide architectural priorities
• Engage senior technical and business leaders in the development of the technical roadmap then present the results
• Keep abreast of technological trends in the industry and determine if useful and/or feasible (i.e. financial impact) and make recommendations to the organization
• Build the business case for new tools and drive the funding process
• Lead Proof Of Concept (POC) initiatives to evaluate technologies
• Lead matrixed application Technical Leads in the development and implementation of application standards through all parts of the Specialty Dispensing architectural stack
• Facilitate experts in a variety of disciplines: Angular, Java, Oracle, Public & Private Cloud, Rules Engines, Open Source & Proprietary frameworks, etc. to work on how methodologies and standards will be defined
• Act as the most senior technical contributor on strategic initiatives
• During some periods leading (e.g. defining sensible sets of functionality to be grouped into projects of a multi-year program) and other times supporting (e.g. providing application architectural designs with the Technical Lead on the project)
• Engaged in a multi-million dollar, multi-year dispensing pharmacy system creation
• Be deeply personally engaged in the success of this program
• Identifies necessary process changes for the department and methodically implements them
• Leads the department’s DevSecOps maturity journey
• Progresses the Unit and QA Test Automation processes in collaboration with the Quality Assurance organization to ‘shift left’
• Selects and implements the tooling for the Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment pipeline across all technology stacks (i.e. Angular, Java, Oracle)
• Surveys other departments, enterprise initiatives, and the industry for best practices for the department to adopt

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with distributed teams, working across multiple time zones and geographical locations
• Experience researching of technical environments
• Health and wellness domain experience
• Hands on experience working as full stack development when needed AngularJS, JavaScript, Oracle and other modern database like NOSQL
• Strong understanding of Generative AI concepts and techniques, including but not limited to: Natural Language Processing(NLP), Text generation and summarization, Conversational AI and chatbots
• Hands on experience developing user-facing features and/or applications
• Ability to influence and inspire teams to align technical direction
• Ability to create and execute on roadmaps that consider both progress and innovation as well as the need to scale reliably
• Have contributed to open-source technology and or developed any patents
• Ability to learn/work with emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions in the Cloud/IT technology space
• Ability to collaborate across organizational boundaries, build relationships, and achieve broader organizational goals