Job Description

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.

We are seeking a strategic, hands-on Principal Software Engineerto drive the modernization of our Sales & Acquisition ecosystem, with a strong focus on AI-enabled, cloud-native platforms This role will lead the design and delivery of a scalable AI-first architecturethat combines traditional cloud services with AI Agent orchestration, LLM gateways, MCP servers, and domain-driven APIs

The Principal Software Engineer will play a pivotal role in accelerating direct-to-consumer (DTC) growth, enhancing lead conversion, and enabling omnichannel engagement—while ensuring enterprise-grade governance, security, compliance (HIPAA/CMS), and performance at scale

This role owns the technical visionfor modern engineering practices, reusable platform services, and intelligent automation using AI agents and governed AI tooling, aligned with enterprise architecture standards.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Platform Leadership

• Lead the architectural vision and system design for the engineering organization using a modern, cloud-native and AI-enabled technology stack, with a core focus on reusability, maintainability, scalability, reliability, and performance at scale.

• Define referencearchitecturesand design patterns for AI-powered platforms, including separation of reasoning (AI agents), tools (MCP), models (LLMs), and transactional domain APIs.

• Conduct architecture and design reviews, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards, security, and compliance requirements.

Domain APIs & Microservices

• Design and implement domain-aligned APIs(e.g., Lead, Enrollment, Plan, Consent, Eligibility) using domain-driven design principles.

• Develop API guidelines (naming, versioning, documentation using Open API/Swagger) and manage the full API lifecycle.

• Ensure clean separation between AI reasoning pathsand transactional workflows

• Build secure, scalable APIs and backend services in a HIPAA-regulated environment

Cloud-Native Engineering (AWS)

• Design and implement cloud-native applications and shared services on AWS, leveraging services such as:

• ECS/Fargate, Lambda, S3, SQS, CloudFront, ALB

• Amazon Connect, AWS Glue, API Gateway

• Ensure solutions meet high availability, resilience, and performancerequirements.

• Integrate AWS services and third-party APIs to create seamless, event-driven workflows.

Full‑Stack Engineering

• Implement back-end services using Java, Spring Boot, Python, or other modern languages within a microservices architecture

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable web applications using React and Angular

• Work with both RDBMS and NoSQL databasesto design and optimize data storage and access patterns.

AI Agent Orchestration & Intelligent Systems

• Design and implement AI Agent orchestration layersthat:

• Interpret user intent

• Plan multi-step workflows

• Invoke tools, domain APIs, and models in a controlled manner

Build enterprise AI agents for use cases such as customer guidance, plan comparison, lead qualification, policy interpretation, and assisted sales.

• Implement tool-based AI reasoningusing MCP servers instead of direct data or system access.

• Design multi-agent and fallback strategiesto improve resilience, accuracy, and explainability.

MCP Servers (Model & Tool Control Plane)

• Design and build MCP serversas a control plane between AI agents and enterprise tools.

• Enforce governance for:

• Tool registration and access

• Input/output validation

• Context injection

• Auditing and observability

• Integrate MCP servers with:

• Domain APIs

• Document retrieval / RAG services

• Policy and rules engines

• Eligibility and calculation services

LLM Gateway & Model Governance

• Design and implement LLM Gateway layersto centrally manage and govern all LLM access.

• Responsibilities include:

• Modelroutingand selection

• Prompt templates and standardization

• Token limits, rate limiting, and cost controls

• HIPAA and CMS guardrails

• Integrate with general-purpose LLMs and domain fine-tuned models, ensuring grounded and compliant outputs.

• Prevent direct model access from applications by enforcing gateway-only usage.

DevOps, CI/CD & Observability

• Own the full lifecycle of applications—from architecture and implementation to CI/CD, deployment, and monitoring

• Help define CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, infrastructure-as-code standards, and observability practices.

• Collaborate with DevOps and infrastructure teams to maintain development, testing, and production environments.

Data & Event‑Driven Architecture

Engineering Excellence & Collaboration

• Improve engineering processes, including coding best practices, Agile delivery, CI/CD,DevSecOps, and quality initiatives

• Participate in code reviews, providing constructive feedback and ensuring adherence to best practices.

• Coordinate with product, UX, and business teams to align technical delivery with business outcomes.

• Leverage Cursor AI, MCPs, and other AI-assisted development toolsfor productivity and code reuse.

• Stay current with emerging technologies, especially in AI, agent platforms, and cloud-native architecture

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.

• 10+ years of progressive software engineering experience, with 5+ years in a Principal/Staff Engineer or Architecture-focused role

• Strong experience designing distributed systems, cloud platforms, and microservices

• Hands-on experience with AI agents, orchestration patterns, LLM integration, or RAG-based systems

• Proficiency in front-end technologies such as React and Angular

• Strong back-end development experience using Java, Python, Spring Boot, or similar modern frameworks.

• Extensive experience with AWS cloud services, including Fargate, Lambda, S3, SQS, CloudFront, and ALB.

• Strong knowledge of CI/CD practicesand experience with GitHub Actions

• Experience with RESTful APIs,OpenAPISwagger, and API lifecycle management.

• Experience with both RDBMS (MySQL, PostgreSQL)and NoSQL databases (MongoDB, DynamoDB)

• Exposure to cloud dataarchitectures, analytics, and event-driven systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven ability to influence architectural decisions without formal authority

Experience designing or operating AI Agent platforms, MCP servers, or LLM gateways.

• Background in healthcare, Medicare, sales, acquisition, or lead management platforms.

• Experience with customer data platforms (CDPs), data lakes, and real-time analytics

• Strong understanding of enterprise integration patternsand event-driven architecture

• Demonstrated experience building governed, compliant AI solutions in regulated environments

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 offering a comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits that reflects our commitment to our colleagues and their families.

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 for this position include medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other resources, based on eligibility.

Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 06/12/2026

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.