Staff Platform Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Florida.

📋 Description

• Define and lead the technical architecture and engineering roadmap for application platforms.

• Design and deploy cloud-native platform solutions for enterprise-scale claims data ingestion, transformation, storage, governance, and consumption.

• Provide technical guidance for data streaming and event-driven architectures utilizing Kafka, CDC, and cloud-native messaging patterns.

• Oversee the design and optimization of data lake and transformation solutions leveraging AWS S3, AWS Glue, Spark, and associated services.

• Establish engineering standards and best practices for application development, API design, microservices, cloud infrastructure, data modeling, security, and platform reliability.

• Guide the development of secure and scalable APIs and microservices using Java, Spring Boot, and AWS-native services.

• Collaborate effectively with Product, Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, and Business stakeholders.

• Promote operational excellence in areas such as availability, resiliency, observability, performance, scalability, disaster recovery, and production support.

• Conduct architecture reviews, design assessments, and technical risk evaluations.

• Mentor and nurture engineering talent across Technology Platform Engineering and Software Engineering teams.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of experience in software design and development for enterprise data platform applications, cloud-native architectures, and Agile methodologies.

• More than 5 years of experience with public cloud platforms and cloud-native solutions.

• At least 5 years of experience in designing, implementing, and supporting data streaming, processing, and/or transformation solutions.

• 3+ years of experience with both relational and non-relational databases, including Amazon Aurora, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cosmos DB, or Microsoft SQL Server.

• Proficient in designing scalable schemas, data models, and storage strategies.

• Minimum of 2 years of experience in production operations support and observability platform tools.

• Preferred experience with AWS S3, Glue, Spark, Aurora PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Kafka, CDC, microservices, APIs, DevOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, observability, and reliability engineering.

• Working knowledge of healthcare data domains and familiarity with HIPAA, PHI, and healthcare regulatory requirements is preferred.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

• Exceptional collaboration, communication, leadership, and mentoring abilities.

🏝️ Benefits

• CVS Health bonus, commission, or short-term incentive program.

• Award target in the company’s equity award program.

• Medical coverage.

• Dental coverage.

• Vision coverage.

• Paid time off.

• Retirement savings options.

• Wellness programs.

• Additional resources supporting physical, emotional, and financial well-being.