Principal Architect (Solutions and Automation)
CVS Health21 days ago
Base Salary
$144k - $288k/yr
Responsibilities
- Provide technology leadership, solution oversight, design reviews, and architectural guidance for complex enterprise initiatives.
- Perform Buy vs. Build analyses and recommend technology solutions based on qualitative and quantitative evaluation.
- Develop reference architectures and implementation guidance for cloud-native PBM applications and modernization initiatives.
- Advise application development teams on performance challenges, technical roadblocks, technical debt, and optimization.
- Develop technology roadmaps and identify emerging technology opportunities for healthcare applications.
- Architect solutions involving AI/ML capabilities, including Generative AI, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, and Predictive Analytics.
- Design and implement automation frameworks and RPA solutions to improve operational efficiency.
- Evaluate and integrate development tools, platforms, and emerging technologies.
- Lead feasibility studies, proof-of-concept solutions, technology demonstrations, and executive presentations.
- Partner with business leaders, product management, architecture, data science, engineering teams, vendors, and academic institutions.
- Mentor architects and engineers, establish centers of excellence, and lead knowledge-sharing initiatives.
Requirements
- At least 10 years of overall design and development experience.
- More than 7 years of hands-on cloud-platform experience, primarily with Google Cloud Platform, plus experience with Azure and familiarity with AWS.
- Expertise in software architecture and design patterns, including Domain-Driven Architecture, microservices, high-level and low-level architecture, modernization, and technical debt reduction.
- Experience with enterprise platform services, integration layers, streaming platforms, cloud-native databases, observability, security, automation, and IT operations.
- Experience with RPA solutions using platforms such as UiPath and Automation Anywhere.
- Experience influencing major technology decisions and collaborating with business and engineering leadership.
- Strong presentation, demonstration, mentoring, collaboration, and business-value translation skills.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Preferred qualifications include healthcare-domain knowledge, healthcare data standards and regulatory compliance experience, storage and caching expertise, cloud-native performance experience, conference speaking, open-source participation, and innovation-framework experience.
Benefits
- Full-time position with medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other well-being resources, based on eligibility.
- Eligible for CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive programs and an equity award program in addition to base pay.
- Application window is anticipated to close on 11/26/2026.
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About CVS Health
CVS Health is a U.S. health care company that operates thousands of retail pharmacies, runs the CVS Caremark pharmacy benefits manager, and owns the Aetna health insurance business. It sells prescriptions, retail health goods, and insurance plans, and provides primary and urgent care through MinuteClinic and other services for consumers, employers, and government programs. Founded in 1963 and headquartered in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, it is a public company traded on the NYSE.