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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.\nPosition Summary\nStaff Data Engineer-Azure Databricks Platform\nWe're looking for a highly skilled Platform Staff Engineer to lead the development and\nmaintenance of our Databricks platform, supporting our healthcare delivery initiatives.\nYou will be a hands-on leader, responsible for the architecture, implementation, and operational\nexcellence of our data platform. You will be responsible for ensuring the platform's reliability,\nperformance, and security, while also driving its strategic evolution to meet future business\nneeds. This position requires a blend of deep technical expertise, a proactive mindset, and a\ncommitment to operational excellence.\nThis role sits at the intersection of platform engineering, cloud engineering, data governance,\nand developer enablement, requiring a blend of deep technical expertise, strategic thinking, and\na passion for building scalable, reliable, and secure systems.\nYou will be a trusted partner for our data engineers ensuring they have the tools and best\npractices to drive business value.\nResponsibilities\nOperational Excellence: Oversee the operational health of the platform. 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.\nPlatform 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).\nSecurity & 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.\nPerformance & 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.\nTooling & 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).\nDeveloper Enablement: 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 teams.\nCross-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.\nLeading the Platform Engineers: Overseeing and directing the efforts of 2 platform engineers. Required Skills\nExperience: 8+ years of experience in a hands-on engineering role with a focus on cloud data platforms, distributed systems, and data engineering.\nAzure 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.\nCloud Proficiency: Expert-level knowledge of the Azure ecosystem, including Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS), Azure Active Directory (AAD), and networking components.\nProgramming & Scripting: Strong proficiency in Terraform, Python, Apache Spark/PySpark, SQL, and Shell scripting.\nInfrastructure 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.\nDistributed Systems: A strong understanding of distributed computing principles and the architecture of large-scale data systems.\nProblem-Solving: Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills with a track record of diagnosing and resolving complex, platform-level issues.\nCommunication: Excellent communication, documentation, and presentation skills, with the ability to influence technical and business stakeholders. Preferred Skills\nExperience with other data technologies (e.g., Azure Synapse, Kafka, Snowflake).\nFamiliarity with healthcare data and healthcare insurance feeds is a significant plus Education\nBachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.\nRelevant certifications such as Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional, and Databricks Certified Platform Administrator\nPay Range\nThe typical pay range for this role is:\n$130,295.00 - $260,590.00This 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. \nOur 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.\nGreat benefits for great people\nWe take pride in offering a comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits that reflects our commitment to our colleagues and their families.\nThis 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. 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