Principal Architect
CVS Health1 day ago
Base Salary
$144k - $288k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define technology roadmaps, future-state architectures, standards, best practices, and reusable enterprise frameworks.
- Design architectures for artificial intelligence, APIs, data stores, cloud infrastructure, cloud services, and microservices.
- Evaluate market trends and make buy-versus-build decisions based on cost and business outcomes.
- Develop reference implementations, starter code, proofs of concept, and frameworks to accelerate delivery.
- Design complex integrations using APIs, microservices, event-driven architecture, performance engineering, and loose coupling.
- Ensure non-functional requirements such as performance, availability, failover, scalability, and security are addressed.
- Provide architectural guidance, mentorship, and coaching to engineers, architects, delivery teams, and stakeholders.
- Perform requirements analysis, estimation, systems and application design, testing, and architecture governance.
- Define architecture using the C4 model or an equivalent approach.
- Build relationships with technology and business partners and influence strategic business and technology decisions.
Requirements
- 15+ years of relevant work experience, including 8+ years in architecture.
- 10+ years of experience building large-scale business applications with modern technologies and architecture.
- 10+ years of experience designing complex integrations using APIs, microservices, and event-driven architecture.
- 8+ years of experience with modern languages, frameworks, and technologies.
- 6+ years facilitating implementation of target architectures through mentoring, proofs of concept, starter code, and collaboration.
- Expert-level understanding of architectural methodologies, standards, governance, design patterns, and best practices.
- Recognized technical leadership with full-stack technology knowledge and expertise in at least one technical subject.
- Experience with requirements analysis, estimation, systems design, application design, and testing.
- Experience defining architecture with the C4 model or an equivalent model.
- Technical depth across AI/ML/Agentic AI, cloud, data platforms, hybrid solutions, and large-scale operations.
- Strong collaboration, influencing, negotiation, coaching, and coalition-building skills.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field.
- Preferred: experience with Agile methodology or SAFe practices, AI architecture, Generative AI, Agentic AI, and Ambient Agents.
Benefits
- Full-time employees are eligible for medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other resources based on eligibility.
- The position includes eligibility for CVS Health bonus, commission, or short-term incentive programs and an equity award target; compensation figures are excluded here.
- The anticipated application window closes on 11/06/2026.
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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.