Staff Data Platform Engineer

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**

We're looking for a highly skilled Staff Data Platform Engineer to lead the maintenance and enhancement of our Azure Databricks platform, supporting our healthcare delivery initiatives.

We also have current Platforms on-prem (MS SQL server) and Cloud (Palantir Foundry) that this role will support those platforms as well until we have migrated off those platforms and completely on Azure Databricks.

You will be a hands-on leader, responsible for the architecture, implementation, and operational excellence of our data platforms.

You will be responsible for ensuring the platforms’ reliability, performance, and security, while also driving its strategic evolution to meet future business needs.

This position requires a blend of deep technical expertise, a proactive mindset, and a commitment to operational excellence.

This role sits at the intersection of platform engineering, cloud engineering, data governance, and developer enablement, requiring a blend of deep technical expertise, strategic thinking, and a passion for building scalable, reliable, and secure systems.

You will be a trusted partner for our data engineers ensuring they have the tools and best practices to drive business value.

**Responsibilities**

+ Operational Excellence: Oversee the operational health of the platforms.

Maintain and enhance monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to proactively identify and resolve issues.

Lead incident response and perform root cause analysis for platform-wide problems.
+ Platform Architecture & Strategy: Maintain and enhance the core components of our Azure Databricks environment.

Define the strategic roadmap for the platform, including the adoption of new features, services, and best practices (e.g., Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Databricks Workflows.

Github CI/CD).
+ Security & Governance: Manage the enforcement and enhancement of data security and governance policies.

Manage the Unity Catalog to ensure fine-grained access control, data lineage, and compliance with internal and external regulations.
+ Performance & Cost Optimization: Implement strategies for cost management and performance tuning at a platform level.

Provide guidance and tooling to optimize Databricks clusters and workloads to maximize efficiency and minimize cloud spend.
+ Tooling & Automation: Maintain and enhance automated solutions for provisioning, scaling, and managing Databricks workspaces and resources using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub).
+ Developer Enablement: Ensure new data engineering team members are onboarded consistently with best practices.

Serve as a subject matter expert and mentor to other data engineers and Azure databricks platform engineers.

Develop and advocate for best practices, create reusable patterns and libraries, and provide expert-level technical support and training to data engineering teams.
+ Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with data engineering and business teams to understand their needs and maintain and enhance a platform that empowers them.

Work with security, networking, and other infrastructure teams to ensure a cohesive and secure environment.
+ Leading the Platform Engineers: Overseeing and directing the technical efforts of 6 platform engineers.

Work with product and engineering leadership teams to groom and prioritize the backlog and work with the engineers to implement

**Required Skills & Qualifications**

+ Experience: 7+ years of experience in a hands-on engineering role with a focus on cloud data platforms, on-prem data platforms, distributed systems, and data engineering.
+ Azure Databricks Expertise: Deep, hands-on experience with the Azure Databricks platform, including its administration, cluster management, job orchestration, and key features like Delta Lake and Unity Catalog.

Relevant certifications such as Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional, and Databricks Certified Platform Administrator
+ Cloud Proficiency: Expert-level knowledge of the Azure ecosystem, including Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS), Azure Active Directory (AAD), and networking components.
+ Programming & Scripting: Strong proficiency in Terraform, Python, Apache Spark/PySpark, SQL, and Shell scripting.
+ Infrastructure as Code & CI/CD: Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g., Terraform) and building automated CI/CD pipelines for platform and data application deployments.
+ Distributed Systems: A strong understanding of distributed computing principles and the architecture of large-scale data systems.
+ Problem-Solving: Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills with a track record of diagnosing and resolving complex, platform-level issues.
+ Communication: Excellent communication, documentation, and presentation skills, with the ability to influence technical and business stakeholders.

**Preferred Qualifications**

+ Familiarity with healthcare data and healthcare insurance feeds
+ Familiarity with Data Analytics and reporting
+ Familiarity with ML/AI

**Education**

+ Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

**Pay Range**

The typical pay range for this role is:

$106,605.00 - $284,280.00

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: 10/31/2025

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.
We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.

We do not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, promotion, or any other personnel action based on race, ethnicity, color, national origin, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

Required Skill Profession

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