Software Development Engineer

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: Caremark LLC, a CVS Health company, is hiring for the following role in Irving, TX: Software Development Engineer to design, deliver, and drive key technical activities for small and large software applications engineering projects across multiple technical environments. Evaluate and recommend tools, technologies, and processes to ensure the highest quality application design. Collaborate with peer organizations, quality assurance, and end users to produce cutting-edge software solutions. Involved throughout the entire development life cycle of software product and deliver efficient solution, identifying and mitigating any risks to the product before deployment to production. Deliver innovative software solutions which meet business needs and opportunities by integrating information, business process refinement, and technology. Identify opportunities to increase internal process efficiency by applying novel technology concepts to existing business processes. Serve as technical contributor in the design of new software applications or enhancements of existing software solutions. Translate business requirements into technical specifications, independently designing and coding system functionality, and developing cost-effective applications and program solutions. Create products from discovery and framing through iterative development and delivery and maintain a user-centered and business-as-priority approach in design perspective and practice as warranted. Design efficient and user-friendly COBOL Mainframe software products to advance and support business needs. Develop CICS front-end and COBOL batch code utilizing IBM supported tools in support of requirements and design. Work with the Safe Agile development team(s) for building software products, partnering with product team(s) to translate product strategy into high-performance code and in creating advanced capabilities. Participate in Pl feature scoping (Pl) and discovery and help translates user features into application design. Iteration planning to help create solid backlog with technical input in dose partnership with product team. Contribute and participate in daily cross functional team standups and end of iteration retrospectives. Work closely with Product Owners to provide project estimates based on customer experience, features and envisioned solutions. Build reusable code and libraries for future use. Implement prototypes to evaluate solutions and ensure technical feasibility of designs. Ensure architecture and designs are aligned with overall Enterprise Architecture guidelines. Apply expertise in Agile Software Framework, responsive UI design and development, Web Related Technologies, Programming Languages,.Net Technologies, Technical Tools, Web and Application Servers, and Database Servers, as applicable. Participate in unit and integrated testing, including test data creation, to support high-quality code development and the absence of defects prior to code promotion. Develop detailed technical understanding of all related systems and the associated infrastructure and identifying opportunities for improvements/enhancements to become a data-driven organization. Submit recommendations for software process or infrastructure improvements to reduce overhead or reduce technical debt, by converting abstract ideas into solutions, where applicable. Participate in feature scoping, discovery, and translate user features into application design. □Work in a fluid environment, defining and owning engineering priorities that adapt to our larger goals, communicating effectively with business partners. Telecommuting available.Requirements: Master's degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field and two (2) years of experience in the job offered or related occupation. Requires two (2) years of experience with each of the following: DevOps; XML; Agile methodologies; Oracle; JIRA; SOL; Developing backend services, performing code reviews, and collaborating with peers on software development solutions; Relational database concepts; and Software development lifecycle (SDLC) and best practices.Pay Rate: $69,680.00/ year to $140,000.00/yearThis 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.