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Bring 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.

Position Summary

We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Java Microservices Tech Lead/Manager to join our team. As a Tech Lead, you will be responsible for leading the design, development, and implementation of scalable and efficient microservices architecture for our applications. You will work closely with the development, architecture, and operations teams to ensure the best practices in microservices design and development, and mentor a team of Java developers.

*This position can be remote or hybrid. Candidates should be based in EST or CST time zone in the United States.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the development and implementation of Java-based microservices.

• Architect, design, and implement RESTful APIs and microservices to support business functionality.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and design solutions for large-scale, complex applications.

• Design and implement services that are scalable, reliable, and secure.

• Perform code reviews, ensure adherence to coding standards, and guide developers on best practices.

• Mentor and lead a team of junior and mid-level developers.

• Implement CI/CD pipelines and optimize the software development process.

• Stay current with industry trends, new technologies, and frameworks to improve the overall system design and development process.

• Troubleshoot, debug, and optimize microservices for performance and scalability.

• Coordinate with the product management and business teams to ensure the system meets customer and business requirements.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of proven experience in leading Java microservices development projects

• 2+ years experience leading teams

• 5+ years expertise in Java, with hands-on experience in Spring Boot and Spring Cloud

• 3+ years in-depth experience with RESTful APIs, SOAP (optional), and JSON/XML

• 2+ years experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)

• 2+ years experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, or CircleCI

• 2+ years experience in database technologies such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or NoSQL databases

• 2+ years experience in test-driven development (TDD)

• 2+ years experience in automated testing especially with functional testing (BDD)

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong leadership and mentoring skills

• Problem-solving and critical thinking abilities

• Ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate with multiple teams

• Experience with version control systems like Git

• Understanding of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban)

• Familiarity with API Gateway and service mesh (e.g., Istio, Spring Cloud Gateway, Netflix Zuul)

• Experience with container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes and OpenShift

• Knowledge of message brokers such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or ActiveMQ

• Familiarity with event-driven architectures and asynchronous programming

• Knowledge of monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, or Splunk

• Experience with DevOps tools and practices for building and deploying applications

Education

Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience (HS diploma + 4 years relevant experience)

Business Overview

Bring 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.

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

$101,970.00 - $203,940.00

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.

In addition to your compensation, enjoy the rewards of an organization that puts our heart into caring for our colleagues and our communities. The Company offers a full range of medical, dental, and vision benefits. Eligible employees may enroll in the Company’s 401(k) retirement savings plan, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan is also available for eligible employees. The Company provides a fully-paid term life insurance plan to eligible employees, and short-term and long term disability benefits. CVS Health also offers numerous well-being programs, education assistance, free development courses, a CVS store discount, and discount programs with participating partners. As for time off, Company employees enjoy Paid Time Off (“PTO”) or vacation pay, as well as paid holidays throughout the calendar year. Number of paid holidays, sick time and other time off are provided consistent with relevant state law and Company policies.

For more detailed information on available benefits, please visit Benefits | CVS Health (https://jobs.cvshealth.com/us/en/benefits)

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 01/02/2025

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.