Staff Software Architect
CVS Health3 days ago
Base Salary
$107k - $261k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define the end-to-end software architecture vision and roadmap for the Clinical Insights Engine across GCP and Azure.
- Provide technical authority, architecture governance, reference architectures, and engineering standards across multiple engineering squads and product teams.
- Design scalable, fault-tolerant, cost-optimized platforms for clinical AI/ML workloads, LLM inference, document processing, and real-time clinical data services.
- Define ML architecture patterns covering feature stores, model registries, model serving, experiment tracking, MLOps pipelines, reproducibility, observability, and reliability.
- Lead architecture for LLM-integrated systems, prompt engineering frameworks, RAG pipelines, embedding stores, and clinical NLP processing.
- Partner with portfolio leads, product managers, clinical stakeholders, and enterprise architecture groups to align technology with clinical and business outcomes.
- Identify architectural risk, technical debt, and data quality issues, and ensure systems meet HIPAA, enterprise security, and clinical data governance requirements.
- Mentor senior engineers and architects and champion event-driven design, API-first development, data quality, and self-service platform patterns.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in software or data architecture, platform engineering, or a closely related field.
- 5+ years of experience designing enterprise-scale cloud systems in GCP and/or Azure in production healthcare or regulated-industry environments.
- Deep expertise with cloud-native services such as BigQuery, Dataflow, Vertex AI, Cloud Run, GKE, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, or Azure equivalents.
- Experience architecting clinical AI/ML platforms, including feature stores, model serving infrastructure, MLOps tooling, and LLM integration patterns for healthcare data.
- Strong command of distributed systems, event streaming, asynchronous processing, API gateway patterns, service mesh, and fault-tolerant pipelines.
- Experience defining and executing multi-year platform roadmaps across large, multi-squad engineering programs and influencing stakeholders without direct authority.
- Deep familiarity with clinical notes, EHR data, claims, pharmacy, member, and provider data, plus HIPAA, PHI handling, privacy regulations, and enterprise security frameworks.
- Experience with SAFe Agile, program increment planning, and large-scale Agile delivery.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
- Preferred qualifications include Google Cloud Professional Architect, GCP Data Engineer, or Azure Solutions Architect certification; Vertex AI Pipelines, Kubeflow, or MLflow experience; LLM clinical document processing, RAG, OCR, or clinical NLP experience; data mesh and federated governance familiarity; real-time ML serving, A/B testing, model monitoring, and drift detection experience; healthcare operations experience; and published AI/ML or healthcare architecture thought leadership.
Benefits
- Full-time position with medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other eligibility-based benefits.
- 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 11/20/2026.
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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.