Principal Engineer, Technology Transformation & AI Enablement
Company: CVS Health
Location: Illinois (Remote)
Salary: $144,200 - $288,400 a year
Type: Full-time
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-10-23
About this role
We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. 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.
Position Summary
Aetna Technology is seeking a Principal Engineer, Architecture, AI & Enablement to serve as a strategic technical leader responsible for accelerating modernization, improving engineering effectiveness, enabling responsible AI adoption, and helping guide technology transformation across a complex enterprise technology portfolio.
This role operates at enterprise scale and serves as a key partner to Engineering, Enterprise Architecture, Platform Engineering, Security, Product, Infrastructure, and Delivery organizations. The successful candidate will help translate enterprise technology strategy into practical engineering execution by developing modernization roadmaps, establishing technology standards, promoting engineering best practices, and enabling adoption of emerging technologies.
The Principal Engineer will play a critical role in helping engineering teams modernize legacy systems, adopt cloud-native technologies, improve software delivery practices, and evaluate opportunities to leverage AI capabilities in a responsible and scalable manner. This individual will influence technical direction across multiple platforms and business domains while partnering closely with senior technology leaders to drive consistent and sustainable technology outcomes.
The ideal candidate combines deep software engineering and architecture expertise with experience leading large-scale modernization initiatives, cloud transformation efforts, engineering enablement programs, and enterprise-wide technology change.
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