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Position Summary:If you're eager to make a real impact in the health care industry through your own meaningful contributions, explore a role in technology with CVS Health. Our journey calls for technical innovators and visionaries: come help us pave the way in transforming pharmacy prior authorization product and solutions for CAS (Clinical Authorization System).
As Senior Manager, Software Engineering, you will lead the end-to-end UI/UX engineering strategy for CAS, including modernization of the current user experience, development of design systems, and introduction of SaaS-based UI frameworks. Your teams will deliver high-performance, accessible, and intuitive user experiences across CAS while shaping UI architecture for our future cloud-based system. This role blends engineering leadership, UX partnership, design strategy, and front-end technology expertise. This role also requires depth in full-stack engineering, strong engineering fundamentals, and proven team leadership in enterprise environments.
Key ResponsibilitiesUI/UX Engineering Leadership- Lead UI/UX engineering teams building high-quality front-end applications and design components.
- Own the UI architecture and frameworks, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and consistent UX patterns.
- Collaborate with UX Designers, Product Managers, and Accessibility experts to translate concepts into engineered experiences.
Experience & Design System Leadership- Own the CAS Design System and ensure consistency across multiple modules and teams.
- Champion accessibility (WCAG 2.x AA), usability testing, responsive design, and human-centered design principles.
- Partner with UX Research to integrate customer insights into engineering decisions.
SaaS & Platform Modernization- Drive the transition toward SaaS-aligned UI frameworks and platform integrations needed for CAS modernization.
- Evaluate and integrate UI platform vendors, ensuring reliability, performance, and security.
- Support the migration of UI workloads to cloud platforms, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture.
Technical Strategy & Delivery- Define UI coding standards, performance budgets, and front-end engineering best practices.
- Lead cross-functional engineering delivery in collaboration with backend, DevSecOps, and SRE teams.
- Oversee component libraries, accessibility tooling, automated regression frameworks, and CI/CD pipelines for UI apps.
- Drive innovation initiatives, promoting a culture of creativity, experimentation, and learning. This includes leveraging Artificial Intelligence in the automation and augmentation of clinical processes; leveraging FHIR/HL7 services to drive interoperability and electronic health record integration; and increase product development velocity using AI.
Agile Project & Release Delivery- Lead UI teams through sprint execution, estimation, backlog refinement, issue resolution, and release readiness.
- Improve the speed and quality of UI delivery through process, tooling, and engineering excellence.
Quality, Security & Operational Excellence- Embed test-first development: unit, integration, contract testing and automation-first mindset.
- Enforce security-by-design, secure coding standards, dependency hygiene, and API versioning discipline.
- Collaborate with DevSecOps, SRE, and Platform Engineering to ensure reliability, observability, and operational readiness.
People Leadership- Hire, mentor, and develop UI engineers, tech leads, and UI platform specialists.
- Build a culture of craftsmanship, innovation, and user-centered thinking.
- Promote accountability, continuous improvement, and empowered team decision-making.
Cross-Functional Collaboration- Serve as the UI engineering voice across architecture, product, backend engineering, analytics, and enterprise design organizations.
- Communicate UI strategy and technical direction to senior leadership and stakeholders.
- Partner with enterprise accessibility teams, security, and compliance to ensure alignment.
Required Qualifications- 7+ years of experience in UI/UX engineering or front-end development roles.
- 3+ years leading UI/UX engineering teams or technical leads.
- Deep hands-on experience with modern JS frameworks (Angular preferred) and UI engineering principles.
- Strong knowledge of design systems, accessibility guidelines, and UX engineering workflows.
- Strong technical background in at least one modern engineering stack (e.g., .NET, Java, Node or similar).
- Experience with UI performance optimization, testing frameworks, bundling tools, and observability instrumentation.
- Experience partnering cross-functionally with UX Design, Product, and Architecture.
Preferred Qualifications- Experience contributing to SaaS UI platform adoption or modernization initiatives.
- Cloud platform experience (Azure or Google Cloud Platform) including front-end hosting and optimization.
- Familiarity with micro-frontend patterns, module federation, and enterprise-scale UI decomposition.
- Certifications in UX/Accessibility (CPACC), front-end engineering, or SAFe Agile.
- Domain experience in Pharmacy Benefit Management, Health Insurance, Clinical Utilization Management Products, or Prior Authorization.
- Experience in healthcare, retail, or pharmacy environments.
- Knowledge of regulatory requirements (HIPAA, PCI DSS, FedRAMP).
Education: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field required.
Master's degree preferred.
Culture Fit:- Mission-aligned engineering
- Cloud-native acceleration
- Empowered team culture
- Outcome-driven delivery
- Quality by design
- Seamless collaboration
- Constructive challenge
- Sustainable work norms
- Operational rigor
- Mutual respect and continuous learning
- Leadership pillars: application ownership, people leadership through structured 1:1s, incremental transformation, bias for action, crisp business communication.
Pay RangeThe typical pay range for this role is:
$118,450.00 - $236,900.00
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. This position also includes an award target in the company's equity award program.
Our 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.
Great benefits for great peopleWe take pride in our comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits - investing in the physical, emotional and financial wellness of our colleagues and their families to help them be the healthiest they can be. In addition to our competitive wages, our great benefits include:
- Affordable medical plan options, a 401(k) plan (including matching company contributions), and an employee stock purchase plan.
- No-cost programs for all colleagues including wellness screenings, tobacco cessation and weight management programs, confidential counseling and financial coaching.
- Benefit solutions that address the different needs and preferences of our colleagues including paid time off, flexible work schedules, family leave, dependent care resources, colleague assistance programs, tuition assistance, retiree medical access and many other benefits depending on eligibility.
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We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 04/01/2026
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.
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