Lead Solution Architect

At CVS Health, we’re building a world of health around every consumer and surrounding ourselves with dedicated colleagues who are passionate about transforming health care.

As the nation’s leading health solutions company, we reach millions of Americans through our local presence, digital channels and more than 300,000 purpose-driven colleagues – caring for people where, when and how they choose in a way that is uniquely more connected, more convenient and more compassionate. And we do it all with heart, each and every day.

Position Summary:

CVS Health is looking for an outcome-driven Lead Solution Architect who will be working with design, research, product management and engineering teams to translate business requirements into architecture runways for application development plans which enables innovative digital solutions that will make health care more accessible, more integrated, and more reliable for more people, both online and in our stores.

You should have extensive application development knowledge and experience and ability to understand, evaluate and influence business need decisions. You will also need to have experiences and expertise in providing architecture support in optimizing business operations.

Responsibilities Include:

• Serve as technical architecture expert for a single value stream (e.g. Portfolio), helping to ensure successful product deliveries
• Manage the evolution of architectural roadmaps for your domain, showing how new features are released or updated, with an eye on paying down technical debt with minimal disruption
• Understand the product requirement and product vision, evaluate the high-level technical feasibility, blocker or risks, lead the solution discussion
• Work on the overall solution engaging with other architecture colleagues on UI, API and service level with logic workflow, integration strategy and technical blueprint
• Communicate and present solution to business partners and leadership, communicate and align engineering team on solution technical blueprint
• Lead Proof-Of-Concepts and Spike Solutions, and provide “Reference Architectures” and “Baseline Implementations” when appropriate
• Evaluation of new technologies, vendors and hands on POCs on new or emerging technologies
• Provide guidance to developers and other stakeholders on architectural best practices, guidelines, and standards. Evangelize, mentor, and coach all on the same
• Provide guidance, direction and mentorship to Architects
• Provide guidance to developers and other stakeholders regarding the design of server applications, encompassing APIs and micro-services, domain driven design, containers, databases, cloud infrastructures, and cloud services
• 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 engineers and seek the opportunity to bring in continuous improvements to implement

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience with concept of service API, caching, web component, content management, web security, SSR/CSR, micro services, identity management
• 5+ years of hands-on consumer facing enterprise level application development experience
• 3+ years of experience with architecting solutions for Cloud (GCP, Azure, or AWS)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience and proficiency with modern languages, frameworks, and technologies
• Experience with the design and development of complex systems/user interfaces; employs a disciplined and rigorous approach
• Experience with requirements analysis, estimation, systems and application design, and testing
• Experience with distributed computing architectures, including race conditions, parallelism, and concurrency control
• Experience driving a build vs buy evaluation to completion
• Experience with ES6/ES7/ES8, UI Middleware
• Experience with packaging, bundling technologies, and library management tools
• Experience with CircleCI, CI/CD Pipeline, GIT and other DevOps principles
• Experience with responsive, adaptive UI design and development
• Experience with SAFE pra