Principal AI Architect

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⛰️ Colorado – Remote

⛰️ Colorado – Remote

💵 $144.2k - $288.4k / year

⏰ Full Time

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CVS Health Careers

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🏥 Healthcare

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CVS Health Careers is the recruitment and employer branding arm of CVS Health, showcasing job opportunities across the company's broad operations—pharmacy retail stores, pharmacy services, health care clinics, distribution warehouses, corporate functions and transportation. The careers site emphasizes purpose-driven work focused on improving access, affordability and quality of health care, and highlights a large workforce (300,000+ employees), inclusive culture, benefits, and hiring resources for applicants.

📋 Description

• Own Aetna Technology AI reference architectures for model serving, multi-model orchestration, retrieval, and evaluation across AWS-primary and multicloud infrastructure • Define agentic architecture, including agent orchestration, domain agents, and reusable skills layers • Set API-first integration defaults and criteria for MCP exceptions • Design and maintain paved-road golden patterns for building, serving, and evaluating models and agents • Embed guardrails, evaluation, and safety controls into AI development standards • Define model evaluation and benchmarking practices • Establish controls for regulated and sensitive data, including PHI • Define instrumentation for AI investment, labor redeployment, usage telemetry, ROI, and dollar impact • Partner with platform and finance teams on cost-aware AI architecture • Author AI standards enforced through automated gates and paved-road defaults • Contribute to architecture governance, technology radar input, and design reviews • Evaluate emerging models, frameworks, and agentic tooling and recommend adoption • Translate AI architecture trade-offs for senior technology leaders and peer architects • Coach Solution Architects and senior engineers through design reviews without direct reporting relationships • Partner with strategic AI vendors and internal platform teams

🎯 Requirements

• 12+ years in technology • Deep, hands-on experience in AI/ML platform and solution architecture at Aetna Technology scale • Expert-level command of model serving, multi-model orchestration, retrieval, and evaluation on cloud platforms • AWS expertise; GCP/Azure familiarity preferred • Demonstrated ownership of AI reference architectures and paved-road/golden-path patterns for model and agent development • Hands-on experience designing agentic systems, including orchestration, tool/skill layers, and API/MCP integration patterns • Strong grounding in responsible AI, model evaluation, and guardrail design • Track record of driving technical outcomes through influence and design authority as an individual contributor • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field or equivalent experience

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical coverage • Dental coverage • Vision coverage • Paid time off • Retirement savings options • Wellness programs • Other resources supporting physical, emotional, and financial well-being • CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program • Equity award program

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