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
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 the change in the healthcare industry and improve the lives of hundreds of millions of people.
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This role requires collaborating with multiple stakeholders, including product management, UX design and engineering teams, to create systems that are scalable, extensible, performant and secure.This position can work remotely or at a CVS location.
- 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. Evangelize, mentor, and coach all on the same.
- 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.
- 7-10 years of hands-on consumer facing enterprise level application development experience
- Of which, 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.
- Significant experience in:
- 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).
- 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.
- Bachelor degree in Computer Science or a closely-related discipline, or an equivalent combination of formal education and experience.
The typical pay range for this role is:$130,295.00 - $260,590.00
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.