Lead Solution Architect, CVS Health

CVS Health

Location:

United States, Work At Home, Connecticut

Category:

IT - Software Development

Contract Type:

Employment contract

Salary:

130295.00 - 260590.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

CVS Health Digital is looking for an outcome-driven Lead Architect to join our mission to create innovative digital solutions that make health care more accessible, more integrated, and more reliable for more people, both online and in our stores. As Lead Architect, you will be working with design, research, product management and engineering teams and work with other team members to translate business requirements into architecture runways for application development. Leveraging your expertise in key technologies, you will help build products that will bring about changes in the healthcare industry and improve the lives of hundreds of millions of people.

Job Responsibility:

Lead technical architecture initiatives for multiple value streams (e.g. Agile Release Trains), helping to ensure successful product deliveries
Identify opportunities to leverage common solutions for cross-cutting concerns
Oversee build vs buy evaluations
Partner with key stakeholders to establish and adopt architectural best practices, guidelines, and standards
Evangelize, mentor, and coach all on the same
Understand the product requirement and product vision, evaluate the high level technical feasibility, blocker or risks, lead the solution discussion, translate them into architecture solutions
Communicate and present solution to business partners, leadership and engineering team on solution technical blueprint, collaborate to make successful product deliveries
Define non-Functional Requirements (e.g. performance, availability and fail-over, scalability, security, etc.)
Ensure that these are incorporated in the design and supported in the final product
Guide engineering and other stakeholders on architectural best practices and standards
Oversee the evolution of architectural roadmaps for your domain based on product requirements and long term vision
Balance various aspects like feature development, reducing technical debt and strategic architectural objectives
Collaborate with multiple Agile value stream execution teams in guiding large solutions across multiple planning/execution cycles
Evaluate new technologies and vendors
Guide POCs and discovery work as needed
Provide guidance, direction and mentorship to Architects/Sr. Architects and other collaborators.

Requirements:

7-10 years of hands-on consumer facing enterprise level application development experience
4 Years in architecture, including leading technical architecture initiatives for multiple value streams e.g. Agile Release Train
Expert understanding of architectural methodologies and best practices
Experience and proficiency with modern languages, frameworks, and technologies
Design of server applications, encompassing APIs and micro-services, containers, databases, cloud infrastructures, and cloud services
Design and development of complex systems/user interfaces
Distributed computing architectures, including race conditions, parallelism, and concurrency control
Modern API patterns, including RESTful APIs
Recognized ability to explain highly complex technical architectures, designs and issues clearly and understandably to all constituents
Experience with Jenkins, CI/CD Pipeline, GIT and other DevOps principles
Excellent communication, collaboration, influencing, evangelization, negotiation, coaching, mentoring, and coalition-building skills
Ability to work with persons in all job functions (e.g. Product, UX, Developers, QA, DevOps).

Nice to have:

Experience with SAFE practices or able to work in SAFE practices and agile methodologies
Good understanding of ADA and other regulatory compliances including PCI, PII and PHI
Experience related to security oriented projects.

What we offer:

Medical, dental, and vision benefits
401(k) retirement savings plan
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Fully-paid term life insurance plan
Short-term and long-term disability benefits
Well-being programs
Education assistance
Free development courses
CVS store discount
Discount programs with participating partners
Paid Time Off (PTO)
Paid holidays.

Additional Information:

Job Posted:

March 19, 2025

Expiration:

April 30, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Remote work

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