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CVS Health Principal Enterprise Architect in Hartford, Connecticut
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
Join a team of enterprise architects that drive innovation, collaboration and alignment for the CVS Health platform that enables CVS’s vision of helping people on their path to better health. Enable and execute on the enterprise architecture blueprint strategy through engagements, collaboration, and partnership across technology.
What you will do
Be part of a team responsible for enabling the technology solutions that meets our business strategy and drives business value.
Define and collaborate on the creation of roadmaps, architectures, standards, and best practice documents that will enable our technology teams to execute on the future direction of CVS Health.
Evaluate market trends, execute buy vs. build decisions and assess the impact on targeted business outcomes.
Produce and analyze the current state architecture for business capabilities and/or products.
Define future state architecture that enables and adopts the strategy for APIs, databases, cloud infrastructures, cloud services, and microservices.
Collaborate and consult with technology and business partners to optimize business applications and systems that adopt modern architecture and technologies.
Develop and maintain a strategic vision to support capabilities aligned to the CVS Health platform based on key business drivers and technology trends.
Define and collaborate on the creation of frameworks for the enterprise that promote reuse, reduces cost, manages risk, and increases speed to market.
Effectively build and maintain strong relationships with technology and business partners to establish trust and influence key business outcomes and decisions.
Provide guidance, direction and mentorship to engineers and other stakeholders regarding the architecture and design of the respective applications.
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 architects and seek the opportunity to bring in continuous improvements to implement.
Required Qualifications:
15+ year of relevant work experience (8+ years in architecture)
Expert-level understanding of architectural methodologies/best practices, business climate, and/or regulation that affect architecture decisions.
Recognized technical leader with full stack technology knowledge and recognized as an expert in one or more technical subjects.
Experience and proficiency with modern languages, frameworks, and technologies.
Experience recognizing the impact architectural approaches can have on strategic business decisions.
Expert in the design and development of complex systems/user interfaces; employs a disciplined and rigorous approach.
Substantial experience with requirements analysis, estimation, systems and application design, and testing.
Recognized ability to explain complex technical architectures, designs, and issues clearly and understandably to all constituents.
Flexible and creative with the ability to propose innovative ideas and collaborate with diverse teams to achieve positive outcomes.
Experience with defining architecture using the C4 model or equivalent with a focus on system context, container, and component diagrams.
Experience building large scale business applications using modern technologies and architecture.
Expert understanding of architectural methodologies and the development of standards, architectural governance, design patterns and best practices.
Experience designing complex integrations with a focus on performance engineering and loose coupling using APIs, microservices, and event-driven architecture.
Ability to work with people in all job functions (i.e., Product, UX, Developers, QA, DevOps).
A diverse technical background with key areas of depth around AI/ML, cloud, data platforms, hybrid solutions and operating at scale.
Experience with requirements analysis, estimation, systems design, and application design.
Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
Strong leadership skills with the ability to influence business strategies and decisions.
Excellent collaboration, influencing, negotiation, coaching and coalition-building skills.
Excels at building relationships and has top-notch communication and evangelism skills.
Passionate about technology with an exceedingly high technical aptitude.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience developing architecture using agile methodology or SAFe practices.
A self-starter that is naturally inquisitive.
Pay Range
The typical pay range for this role is:
$144,200.00 - $288,400.00
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 jobs.CVSHealth.com/benefits
We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 12/31/2024
We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We do not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, promotion, or any other personnel action based on race, ethnicity, color, national origin, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.