Senior Solution Architect

We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time.

Position Summary

The Senior Solution Architect is accountable for the business solution designs for key strategic initiatives including (but not limited to) developing architectures that represent business, applications/integration, data, infrastructure, platform, and security architectures. In this role you will create solution architecture for key strategic initiatives including developing architectures and runways that represent business, application/integration, data, infrastructure, platform, and security architectures, partnering within Data, Digital, Analytics, and Technology teams.

Accountabilities include:

• End to End Solution Architecture: Drives solutions from cradle to grave for a given enterprise-grade system or systems.
• Buy vs Build Analysis: Experience in performing Buy vs Build analysis based on the qualitative and quantitative analysis across the available options to provide a final recommendation based on the rationale.
• Architecture and design reviews: Contributor role in architecture design reviews within the Architecture community to drive modernization opportunities for the advancement of Aetna technology while keeping in mind the complexities of our IT landscape.
• Trusted advisor: Act as a trusted advisor to application, security, and platform teams, driving alignment on strategies and patterns.
• Application profile identification: Leverage technical expertise and domain knowledge to identify Aetna apps targeted for refactor and optimization for cloud.
• Proof of concept technology support: Contribute towards proofs-of-concept and technology deep-dives specific to partner technologies.
• “Whatever it takes” attitude to help clear technical roadblocks: Advise and assist Application development teams with technical roadblocks such as performance challenges within a solution.
• Cost optimization identification: Engage with appropriate stakeholders to recommend or assess opportunities to drive cost efficiencies aimed at simplicity, configurability and eventual elimination of technical debt associated with Aetna applications.
• Tech Debt: Manage tech debt within a given portfolio and develop solution proposals to reduce them.

Soft Skills:

• Thought leadership and mentoring
• Excellent communication
• Deep collaboration skills. Ability to work as a team player seeking alignment and being able to influence outcomes through hands-on demonstration of cloud capabilities.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of design/development experience
• 1+ years of hands-on cloud implementation experience
• Technical subject matter expertise and domain knowledge
• Hands on understanding of cloud design and architecture for one or more public cloud service provider (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc) to deliver large-scale distributed solutions across the full enterprise stack.
• Hands on technical skills in the following areas: application, data, integration and security architecture/design
• Hands on understanding of APIs (Rest, GraphQL, gRPC. Etc.) and microservices-based architecture is a must.
• Experience working with technologies that work as glue between modern applications and legacy infrastructure leveraging streaming platforms like Kafka.
• Ability to collaborate with Aetna Tech, Enterprise Architecture, Operations, and Security to deliver solutions.
• Experience in enterprise development tools and methodologies (XP, Agile) including DevSecOps and DataOps
• Hands-on technologists with coding skills and proficiency in modern technology stacks (Cloud, DevOps, Kafka etc.)
• Understanding of both SQL and NoSQL database technologies as well as Cloud database technologies.
• Demonstrable hands-on experience is a must
• Facilitates adoption of cloud-native/cloud-first architecture.
• Experience integrating with legacy mainframe/mid-range applications including developing roadmaps for modernization of the applications.

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