Senior Application Development Manager

Job DescriptionEmbedded Engineers are responsible for delivering meaningful and long-lasting change to the way our development teams operate. Leveraging their significant software development, DevOps, and mentoring backgrounds, Engineering Experts are technical evangelists who shepherd teams into the future. The Embedded Engineer will be an active team member of an Application Development Team and will be responsible initially to deliver via "hands-on" development of functionality being asked by the business. In parallel, the Embedded Engineer is expected to coach up other team members on the Enterprise Software Development Behaviors to bring the team up to higher levels of maturity.With a mix of technical skills, passion for continuous improvement, curiosity, creativity, and great people skills, they are a key part of changing the way we create and deliver solutions.CVS Health is undergoing a significant transformation. We are investing in our people and our tech stacks to improve our speed, quality, and customer satisfaction. The Engineering Experts understand how critical it is to adopt CI/CD, trunk-based development, branching by abstraction, and all the practices that are helping modern organizations make huge strides in delivery performance. This person will be responsible for teaching next-generation technical practices, positioning development teams for success, and helping architect solutions that move teams into forward-thinking delivery models. While the development teams are busy delivering essential value for our customers, the Engineering Experts are helping them level up their capabilities.- Serve as a thought leader: research new practices, try them out, and then bring them to the delivery teams with demos, reference applications, and lightweight documentation.- Craft operating procedures and best practices that will be rolled out across teams.- Forge relationships with developers, managers, and business stakeholders.- Dig deep, partnering with teams to understand current maturity, build plans for improvement, and provide hands-on support.- Act broadly, regularly reaching out across the enterprise to encourage, empower, and inspire teams to level up.Change is hard, so individuals in this role should expect to encounter resistance to change on a regular basis. A mindset of positivity, open-mindedness, and persistence is required.This position is responsible for:- Understanding the technical details required to implement modern delivery practices, including continuous integration, continuous delivery, automated release/change management, automated provisioning, and automated testing (unit, component, integration, acceptance).- Working with IT teams (development, operations, support, etc.) to incrementally increase maturity.- Sharing knowledge and partnering with our maturity models team to ensure our long-term trajectory is in line with modern best practices.- Developing a method for tracking technical improvement efforts for every team and the tangible outcomes expressed in metrics and aligned to the DSO objectives.- Developing standards for software engineering and rolling them out across the enterprise.- Broadcasting stories of success and growth.- Proactively and consistently providing updates on progress.- Tactfully holding teams accountable for continuous improvement.- Working to understand barriers to progress and knocking them down.- Designing training opportunities (e.g. lunch and learns, skill builders)- Designing and develop internal tools to help accelerate improvements.- Hosting evangelism sessions, including things like DevSecOps roadshows.Day-to-day, much of position's time will be spent working to understand the unique needs of each IT team, and then encouraging, facilitating, and supporting those teams' improvement efforts from a technical perspective. Initially, this will require the individual to lead by example by taking on most of the development to teach other team members. These individuals will need to make great relationships with developers, testers, product owners, scrum masters, and more.Pay RangeThe typical pay range for this role is:Minimum: 115,000Maximum: 230,000Please keep in mind that this range represents the pay range for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual salary offer will take into account a wide range of factors, including location.Required Qualifications 8+years of application development experience including the following: 8 years of development experience in a modern programming language. 8 years of experience understanding of clean coding principles, design patterns, and delivery methodologies (CI/CD) 8 years of experience in the knowledge of BDD, TDD and Unit Testing conceptsPreferred Qualifications An interest in learning more about software security. Knowledge of cloud architecture and application delivery to the cloud environment Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to build effective workflow diagrams and value stream illustrations. The ability to build and maintain relationships with individual contributors and IT managers The ability to drop into a new team, quickly understand their work, and facilitate productive conversations from the start. The ability to understand new code bases and provide useful, specific guidance on how to improve. A thorough understanding of DevOps concepts and practices or the willingness and ability to learn.EducationBS in any computer-related degree (Computer Science, Information Systems, etc.) OR equivalent work experienceBusiness OverviewBring your heart to CVS Health Every one of us at CVS Health shares a single, clear purpose: Bringing our heart to every moment of your health. This purpose guides our commitment to deliver enhanced human-centric health care for a rapidly changing world. Anchored in our brand - with heart at its center - our purpose sends a personal message that how we deliver our services is just as important as what we deliver. Our Heart At Work Behaviors support this purpose. We want everyone who works at CVS Health to feel empowered by the role they play in transforming our culture and accelerating our ability to innovate and deliver solutions to make health care more personal, convenient and affordable. We strive to promote and sustain a culture of diversity, inclusion and belonging every day. CVS Health is an affirmative action employer, and is an equal opportunity employer, as are the physician-owned businesses for which CVS Health provides management services. 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. We proudly support and encourage people with military experience (active, veterans, reservists and National Guard) as well as military spouses to apply for CVS Health job opportunities.

Created: 2025-09-06