Senior Data Engineer – MongoDB and PostgreSQL

Postgres, MySQL
UNITED STATES
November 11, 2026
Full Time
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Job Description

Company: CVS Health
Location: Albany, NY
Workplace Type: Remote
Employment Type: Full-time
Pay / Compensation: $83,430.00 – $203,940.00

About the Role

CVS Health is building a world of health around every individual. This Senior Data Engineer role will design, build, and support a near real-time transactional cache platform, enabling APIs and digital experiences to consume operational data outside of the legacy UniVerse environment.

What You’ll Do / Key Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and support a near real-time transactional cache platform supporting APIs and applications.
  • Build and maintain Change Data Capture (CDC) pipelines replicating data from UniVerse into PostgreSQL.
  • Develop transformation pipelines converting relational data into optimized MongoDB document structures.
  • Implement and support MongoDB document models, indexing strategies, and query patterns for high-throughput consumption.
  • Optimize PostgreSQL and MongoDB performance through schema design, indexing, query tuning, and capacity planning.
  • Troubleshoot production issues and participate in operational support, incident response, and root cause analysis.
  • Develop and maintain operational runbooks, monitoring dashboards, and alerting strategies.

Requirements & Qualifications

  • 5+ years of data engineering, software engineering, or data platform development experience.
  • 3+ years designing, developing, and supporting enterprise-scale data platforms and distributed systems.
  • Strong MongoDB Atlas /PostgreSQL experience including data modeling, aggregation frameworks, index design, and performance optimization.
  • Experience with Change Data Capture (CDC), replication technologies, and near real-time data movement patterns.
  • Strong Python and SQL development skills.
  • Experience with GCP services including Cloud SQL, Dataproc Serverless, Cloud Composer (Airflow), Monitoring, IAM.
  • Ability to troubleshoot distributed data processing and data synchronization issues.

Preferred / Bonus Qualifications (if applicable)

  • Experience implementing transactional cache or operational data platform architectures.
  • Kafka, Pub/Sub, or event-driven architecture experience.
  • Terraform or Infrastructure as Code experience.
  • Healthcare industry experience.

Benefits & Perks (if applicable)

  • Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Paid time off and retirement savings options.
  • Wellness programs and other resources.

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.

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