Principal Architect

Bring your heart to CVS Health. Every one of us at CVS Health shares a single, clear purpose: Bringing our heart to every moment of your health. This purpose guides our commitment to deliver enhanced human-centric health care for a rapidly changing world. Anchored in our brand — with heart at its center — our purpose sends a personal message that how we deliver our services is just as important as what we deliver.
 
Our Heart At Work Behaviors™ support this purpose. We want everyone who works at CVS Health to feel empowered by the role they play in transforming our culture and accelerating our ability to innovate and deliver solutions to make health care more personal, convenient and affordable.

Position Summary

Join a team of enterprise architects that drive innovation, collaboration and alignment for the CVS Health platform that enables CVS’s vision of helping people on their path to better health. Enable and execute on the enterprise architecture blueprint strategy through engagements, collaboration, and partnership across technology.

*This role can be remote in the US, schedule must overlap with eastern time zone.

What you will do

• Be part of a team responsible for enabling the technology solutions that meets our business strategy and drives business value.

• Define and collaborate on the creation of roadmaps, architectures, standards, and best practice documents that will enable our technology teams to execute on the future direction of CVS Health.

• Evaluate market trends, execute buy vs. build decisions and assess the impact on targeted business outcomes.

• Produce and analyze the current state architecture for business capabilities and/or products.

• Define future state architecture that enables and adopts the strategy for APIs, databases, cloud infrastructures, cloud services, and microservices.

• Collaborate and consult with technology and business partners to optimize business applications and systems that adopt modern architecture and technologies.

• Develop and maintain a strategic vision to support capabilities aligned to the CVS Health platform based on key business drivers and technology trends.

• Define and collaborate on the creation of frameworks for the enterprise that promote reuse, reduces cost, manages risk, and increases speed to market.

• Effectively build and maintain strong relationships with technology and business partners to establish trust and influence key business outcomes and decisions.

• Provide guidance, direction and mentorship to engineers and other stakeholders regarding the architecture and design of the respective applications.

• Ensure all Non-Functional Requirements (e.g. performance, availability and fail-over, scalability, security, etc.) are properly articulated, and work with all parties to guarantee that the software products that are delivered meet these objectives.

• Participates in high-level estimation.

• Mentor and coach junior architects and seek the opportunity to bring in continuous improvements to implement.

Required Qualifications

15+ year of relevant work experience (8+ years in architecture) including the following:

• Expert-level understanding of architectural methodologies/best practices, business climate, and/or regulation that affect architecture decisions.

• Recognized technical leader with full stack technology knowledge and recognized as an expert in one or more technical subjects.

• Experience and proficiency with modern languages, frameworks, and technologies.

• Experience recognizing the impact architectural approaches can have on strategic business decisions.

• Expert in the design and development of complex systems/user interfaces; employs a disciplined and rigorous approach.

• Substantial experience with requirements analysis, estimation, systems and application design, and testing.

• Recognized ability to explain complex technical architectures, designs, and issues clearly and understandably to all constituents.

• Flexible and creative with the ability to propose innovative ideas and collaborate with diverse teams to achieve positive outcomes.

• Experience with defining architecture using the C4 model or equivalent with a focus on system context, container, and component diagrams.

• Experience building large scale business applications using modern technologies and architecture.

• Expert understanding of architectural methodologies and the development of standards, architectural governance, design patterns and best practices.

• Experience designing complex integrations with a focus on performance en