Principal Architect

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🕒 May 14

🦌 Connecticut, Texas, +2 more states – Remote

🦌 Connecticut – Remote 🤠 Texas – Remote ⚔️ Virginia – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $144.2k - $288.4k / year

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CVS Health

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1963

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

🛒 Retail

🧘 Wellness

Healthcare Insurance • Retail • Wellness

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

• Be part of a team responsible for enabling the technology solutions that meets our business strategy and drives business value. • Define and collaborate on the creation of roadmaps, architectures, standards, best practice documents and starter code reference implementations that will accelerate delivery for our technology teams to execute on the future direction of CVS Health including a focus on applied AI . • Evaluate market trends, execute buy vs. build decisions and assess cost and the impact on targeted business outcomes. • Define future state architecture that enables and adopts the strategy for Artificial Intelligence , APIs, data stores, cloud infrastructures, cloud services, and microservices. • Collaborate and consult with technology and business partners to optimize business applications and systems that adopt modern architecture and technologies especially around AI . • Develop and maintain a strategic vision to support capabilities aligned to the CVS Health platform based on key business drivers and technology trends. • Define and collaborate on the creation of frameworks for the enterprise that promote reuse, reduces cost, manages risk, and increases speed to market. • Effectively build and maintain strong relationships with technology and business partners to establish trust and influence key business outcomes and decisions. • Provide guidance, direction and mentorship to engineers and other stakeholders regarding the architecture and design of the respective applications. • Ensure all Non-Functional Requirements (e.g. performance, availability and fail-over, scalability, security, etc.) are properly articulated, and work with all parties to guarantee that the software products that are delivered meet these objectives. • Participates in high-level estimation. • Mentor and coach junior architects and seek the opportunity to bring in continuous improvements to implement.

🎯 Requirements

• 15+ years of relevant work experience (8+ years in architecture) • 10+ years of experience building large scale business applications using modern technologies and architecture. • 10+ years of experience designing complex integrations with a focus on performance engineering and loose coupling using APIs, microservices, and event-driven architecture. • 8+ years of experience and proficiency with modern languages, frameworks, and technologies. • 6+ years of experience facilitating implementation of north star architectures by delivery teams through mentoring and building POCs, starter code, and other collaborative activities. • Expert-level understanding of architectural methodologies/best practices, business climate, and/or regulation that affect architecture decisions. • Recognized technical leader with full stack technology knowledge and recognized as an expert in one or more technical subjects. • Experience recognizing the impact architectural approaches can have on strategic business decisions. • Substantial experience with requirements analysis, estimation, systems and application design, and testing. • Experience with defining architecture using the C4 model or equivalent with a focus on system context, container, and component diagrams. • Expert understanding of architectural methodologies and the development of standards, architectural governance, design patterns and best practices. • A diverse technical background with key areas of depth around AI/ML/Agentic AI, cloud, data platforms, hybrid solutions and operating at scale. • Experience with requirements analysis, estimation, systems design, and application design. • Excellent collaboration, influencing, negotiation, coaching and coalition-building skills.

🏖️ Benefits

• medical, dental, and vision coverage • paid time off • retirement savings options • wellness programs