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

The Lead Solution Architect is responsible for designing business solutions for key strategic initiatives, focusing on modern event-driven architectures with a strong emphasis on cloud technologies, contemporary system designs, and emerging AI and agentic technologies. In this role, you will collaborate across multiple teams to design comprehensive solution architectures that integrate various components, including business applications, data, infrastructure, platform, and security. Your efforts will involve working closely with teams from Digital, Data and Analytics, IT, Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure, and Security to foster a culture of problem-solving and innovation.

This position also involves providing leadership, coaching, and strategic guidance to application development teams while developing reference architectures for cloud-native applications and new architectural frameworks that integrate emerging AI and agentic technologies. These architectures will play a key role in developing new capabilities as well as enhancing and optimizing existing systems. The ideal candidate will be a hands-on leader who actively engages with the team to address technical challenges and remove roadblocks.

*This position is open to multiple CVS locations for hybrid or fully remote anywhere in the USA. 

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of design and development experience in enterprise-level solutions.

• 2+ years of hands-on experience with cloud implementations, particularly in modern event-driven architectures.

• Expertise in technical subject matter and domain knowledge, with a focus on cloud technologies and emerging AI and agentic technologies.

• Strong understanding of cloud design and architecture for one or more public cloud providers, with a preference for AWS, to deliver large-scale distributed solutions across the entire enterprise stack.

• Strong technical skills in application, data, integration, and security architecture/design.

• Proficient understanding of APIs (REST, GraphQL, and gRPC) and microservices-based architecture.

• Experience with Domain-Driven Design, including the ability to map domain scope to Bounded Contexts and Microservices.

• Familiarity with technologies that bridge modern applications and legacy infrastructure, use streaming platforms like Apache Kafka.

• Experience with enterprise development tools and methodologies (XP, Agile), including DevSecOps and DataOps.

• Hands-on technologist 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 essential.

• Ability to facilitate the adoption of cloud-native/cloud-first architectures.

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls.  The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors.  This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above.  This position also includes an award target in the company’s equity award program. 
 

Our people fuel our future. Our teams reflect the customers, patients, members and communities we serve and we are committed to fostering a workplace where every colleague feels valued and that they belong.

Great benefits for great people

We take pride in our comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits – investing in the physical, emotional and financial wellness of our colleagues and their families to help them be the healthiest they can be. In addition to our competitive wages, our great benefits include:

• Affordable medical plan options, a 401(k) plan (including matching company contributions), and an employee stock purchase plan.

• No-cost programs for all colleagues including wellness screenings, tobacco cessation and weight management programs, confidential counseling and financial coaching.

• Benefit solutions that address the different needs and preferences of our colleagues including paid time off, flexible work schedules, family leave, dependent care resources, colleague assistance programs, tuition assistance, retiree medical access and many other benefits depending on eligibility.

For more information, visit https://jobs.cvshealth.com/us/en/benefits

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