Principal Architect – Distributed Systems

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🕒 April 16

🌵 Arizona – Remote

🌵 Arizona – Remote

💵 $144.2k - $288.4k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🏛️ Architect

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CVS Health

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1963

🏥 Healthcare

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

🛒 Retail

Healthcare • Healthcare Insurance • Retail

CVS Health is a leading American healthcare company dedicated to improving health access and affordability. The company focuses on a comprehensive approach that includes health services, health insurance, and pharmacy benefits management. Through its subsidiaries, such as Aetna and CVS Caremark, CVS Health offers a range of services that facilitate wellness, condition management, and affordable prescription drug coverage. CVS Health operates neighborhood pharmacies, provides mail-order pharmacy services, and manages specialty medication programs, aiming to make healthcare convenient and accessible for everyone. Driven by a mission to connect people with essential care services, CVS Health is committed to fostering healthier communities and supporting the wellbeing of all individuals.

📋 Description

• Provide technical ownership and architectural leadership for the Vulnerability Services Engine (VSE) platform, including data ingestion, analytics, distributed processing, and application layers • Own the technical specifications, data architecture, and evolution of vulnerability and exposure data products • Design, document, and enforce: System and solution architectures Component and framework selection Implementation and integration standards • Lead distributed systems and big-data design for large-scale telemetry ingestion, processing, and analytics using platforms such as Apache Spark, Databricks, and Apache Kafka. • Define and implement integration strategies for internal CVS Health platforms and external vendor systems across multi-cloud environments (Azure, GCP, AWS) • Provide hands-on engineering leadership through code contributions, design reviews, and deep technical troubleshooting • Establish and lead performance engineering and observability practices, including throughput optimization, scalability testing, and system tuning • Serve as technical lead for vendor evaluations and proofs-of-concept, assessing architectural fit, performance, and scalability • Act as a senior technical advisor to Exposure Management and broader ISTS teams, influencing standards and platform direction through example and implementation

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of experience designing and implementing large-scale distributed systems • 5+ years of experience with big-data platforms and high-volume data integration • 5+ years of experience building web and service-based applications • Hands-on coding proficiency in at least one of Java, Python, Javascript • 5+ years in senior technical leadership roles such as Architect, Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer, or equivalent, with demonstrated hands-on ownership • Proven ability to operate in enterprise-scale, mission-critical environments with strong performance and reliability requirements

🏖️ Benefits

• medical, dental, and vision coverage • paid time off • retirement savings options • wellness programs • comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial well-being of colleagues and their families