Lead Solution Architect, CVS Health

CVS Health

Location:

United States, Austin

Category:

IT - Software Development

Contract Type:

Employment contract

Salary:

106605.00 - 284280.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

CVS Health is looking for an outcome-driven Solution Architect to manage and evolve architectural roadmaps, evaluate feasibility, offer technical solutions, and guide teams in building innovative health technologies that make healthcare accessible, reliable, and integrated.

Job Responsibility:

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

Requirements:

Proven Architect with the demonstrated ability to create technical solutions in large organizations with complex business requirements and constraints
Strong ability to work with multiple stakeholders, including business, product, and UX team members to influence the application data-flow design and extensible product platform architecture
Takes a disciplined approach to software development and problem solving
excels at breaking down large problems into multi-step plans in an Agile development environment
Collaborates with multiple Agile value stream execution teams in driving large solutions across multiple planning/execution cycles
Experienced with various types of software architectures including Micro Frontend/Microservice architecture, and especially Domain Driven Design
Possesses broad technology knowledge (cloud, enterprise applications, microservices, data analytics, networking, data storage systems, APIs, large-scale systems)
Good understanding of ADA and other regulatory compliances including PCI, PII and PHI
Excels at building relationships across silos
Top-notch communication and evangelism skills
Passionate about technology with a very high technical aptitude
6+ years of experience with concept of service API, caching, web component, content management, web security, SSR/CSR, micro services, identity management
8+ years of hands-on consumer facing enterprise level application development experience (3+ Years in architecture)
3+ years of experience with architecting solutions for Cloud (GCP, Azure, or AWS)
Expert understanding of architectural methodologies and best practices
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
Recognized ability to explain highly complex technical architectures, designs and issues clearly and understandably to all constituents
Familiarity with popular Design Patterns catalogues
Demonstrated grasp of architecture issues and applies that thinking to designs and implementation
Experience with distributed computing architectures, including race conditions, parallelism, and concurrency control
Experience driving a build vs buy evaluation to completion
Excellent 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)
Excellent verbal and written communications
Ability to manage multiple competing priorities with minimal supervision
Self-directed

Nice to have:

Experience in AWS and GCP preferred
Experience with concept of service API, caching, web component, content management, web security, SSR/CSR, micro services, identity management, iOS or Android application performance optimization
Experience with ES6/ES7/ES8, UI Middleware
Experience with packaging, bundling technologies, and library management tools
Experience with Jenkins, CI/CD Pipeline, GIT and other DevOps principles
Experience with responsive, adaptive UI design and development
Experience with SAFE practices or able to work in SAFE practices and agile methodologies
Experience related to security-oriented projects
Experience with modern API patterns and how to build well-designed APIs
Open-minded to new ideas & approaches, and ability to implement the ideas using various technologies
A self-starter that is naturally inquisitive

What we offer:

Full range of medical, dental, and vision benefits
Eligible employees may enroll in the Company’s 401(k) retirement savings plan
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Fully-paid term life insurance plan
Short-term and long term disability benefits
Numerous well-being programs
Education assistance
Free development courses
CVS store discount
Discount programs with participating partners
Paid Time Off (‘PTO’) or vacation pay
Paid holidays

Additional Information:

Job Posted:

March 19, 2025

Expiration:

May 26, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Remote work

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