Principal Data Architect

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⛰️ Colorado – Remote

⛰️ Colorado – Remote

💵 $144.2k - $288.4k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🏥 Healthcare

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📦 Logistics

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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 data reference architectures across ingestion, storage, transformation, semantic, and consumption layers • Define the data mesh operating model with domain-owned data products, clear contracts, and supporting platform capabilities • Establish and protect singular systems of record and authoritative datasets • Design and maintain golden paths for data pipelines and data products • Embed data governance, lineage, and quality as automated pipeline gates • Define controls for regulated and sensitive data, including PHI classification, access, masking, and retention • Establish zero-trust patterns for data access using identity, least privilege, and blast-radius reduction • Provide the data architecture underpinning AI capabilities, including feature readiness, retrieval, and data contracts • Establish semantic and metrics layers for scalable analytics and dashboards • Partner with AI and analytics platform teams on secure, cost-effective data infrastructure • Author data standards enforced through automated gates and golden-path defaults • Contribute to architecture governance, reference architectures, technology radar input, and design reviews • Evaluate emerging data platform and tooling options and recommend adoption directions • Translate data architecture trade-offs into decision-oriented narratives for senior technology leaders and peer architects • Coach Solution Architects and senior engineers through design reviews without direct reporting relationships • Partner with strategic data platform vendors and internal platform teams

🎯 Requirements

• 12+ years in technology, with deep, hands-on data architecture experience at Aetna Technology scale • Expert-level data platform architecture across multivendor, multicloud environments, including Snowflake, GCP/BigQuery, and AWS • Fluency across modeling, pipelines, and consumption layers • Demonstrated ownership of enterprise data architectures and golden-path patterns for data products • Strong command of data governance, lineage, quality, and regulated-data controls, including PHI or equivalent • Working knowledge of data mesh, domain ownership, and systems-of-record 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 • Experience in healthcare, health insurance, or similarly regulated industries preferred • Hands-on background with data infrastructure behind AI/ML, including feature stores, retrieval, and data contracts preferred • Familiarity with FinOps and cost-aware data architecture preferred • Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automated policy/guardrail enforcement preferred

🏖️ 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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