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This role pays more than
76%
of similar roles. Most pay
$169,550–$215,125
— the blue band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$216k
versus about
$192k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
About CVS Health
CVS Health is a leading American healthcare company operating retail pharmacies, pharmacy benefit management services, and a health insurance segment through Aetna, one of the nation''s largest health insurers. Industry: Healthcare & Pharmacy
CVS Health currently has
119 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$106,605–$260,590
across 115 roles with salary data.
The Principal Engineer, Data Platforms serves as the senior technical authority for the architecture, engineering, governance, and evolution of the Unified Ingestion Platform and Federated Data Lake. This role involves defining the technology strategy for a scalable, cloud-native platform capable of processing hundreds of terabytes daily across Azure, AWS, and GCP. Key responsibilities include owning the Databricks platform strategy, managing multi-cloud account structures, and leading a multi-year transformation to consolidate fragmented observability, security, and operational telemetry into a unified ecosystem. The position requires expertise in Databricks, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Apache Spark, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Kafka, and Kinesis. The work focuses on solving complex data ingestion, security governance, and operational intelligence problems while establishing infrastructure-as-code and policy-as-code standards for enterprise-wide telemetry data.
What does a Engineer earn in Remote?
Median $199471 from 30 postings across 16 companies.
Distributed Systems
Platform Engineering
CI/CD
Infrastructure as Code
Data Governance
Systems Design
Streaming Ingestion
Monitoring
Observability
Data Quality
data, lineage
Encryption
Policy as Code