Lead Solution Architect

Bring your heart to CVS Health. Every one of us at CVS Health shares a single, clear purpose: Bringing our heart to every moment of your health. This purpose guides our commitment to deliver enhanced human-centric health care for a rapidly changing world. Anchored in our brand - with heart at its center - our purpose sends a personal message that how we deliver our services is just as important as what we deliver.

Our Heart At Work Behaviors™ support this purpose. We want everyone who works at CVS Health to feel empowered by the role they play in transforming our culture and accelerating our ability to innovate and deliver solutions to make health care more personal, convenient and affordable.Position Summary

The Lead 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 with Digital, Data and Analytics, IT, EA, Infrastructure and Security teams.This role will also require providing leadership, coaching and guidance to App Dev teams and developing PCW-applicable reference architectures for cloud-native applications to be applied to PCW apps targeted for refactor and optimization. The role calls for a hands on leader who can roll up your sleeves and help clear technical roadblocks for the team.*This position is open to multiple CVS locations for hybrid work model.Required Qualifications

• 8+ years in design/development experience
• 2+ years of hands-on cloud implementation experience
• Best in class technical subject matter expertise and domain knowledge
• SME level understanding of cloud design and architecture for one or more public cloud provider (Azure, AWS, preferably GCP) to deliver large-scale distributed solutions across the full enterprise stack
• SME level technical skills in the following areas: application, data, integration and, security architecture/design
• SME level understanding of APIs (Rest, GraphQL, and gRPC) and microservices-based architecture is a must
• Domain Driven Design: Be able to map the domain scope to Bounded Contexts /Microservices
• Experience working with technologies that work as glue between modern applications and legacy infrastructure leveraging streaming platforms like Apache Kafka
• Experience in enterprise development tools and methodologies (XP, Agile) including DevSecOps and DataOps
• Hands-on technologists with coding skills and proficient 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 architectures.

Preferred Qualifications

• . GCP Architect cloud certification is preferred.

Education

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related field required or equivelant experience

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:$118,450.00 - $284,280.00

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.

In addition to your compensation, enjoy the rewards of an organization that puts our heart into caring for our colleagues and our communities. The Company offers a full range of medical, dental, and vision benefits. Eligible employees may enroll in the Company's 401(k) retirement savings plan, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan is also available for eligible employees. The Company provides a fully-paid term life insurance plan to eligible employees, and short-term and long term disability benefits. CVS Health also offers numerous well-being programs, education assistance, free development courses, a CVS store discount, and discount programs with participating partners. As for time off, Company employees enjoy Paid Time Off ("PTO") or vacation pay, as well as paid holidays throughout the calendar year. Number of paid holidays, sick time and other time off are provided consistent with relevant state law and Company policies.

For more detailed information on available benefits, please visit Benefits | CVS HealthWe anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 04/30/2025Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.