Principle Architect

We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time.

Key Responsibilities

• Software Architecture Design: Develop and maintain software architecture designs that support scalable, maintainable, and high-performance AI and interoperability solutions, ensuring that architectural decisions align with best practices and industry standards.
• Technical Leadership: Provide technical guidance and mentorship to software engineering teams, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence in software development practices.
• Integration Architecture: Design integration patterns and frameworks that enable seamless communication between various healthcare applications, databases, and external systems, ensuring data integrity and security.
• Architectural Leadership: Define and drive the architectural vision for AI and interoperability solutions within the healthcare division, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and clinical objectives.
• AI Strategy Development: Collaborate with executive leadership to develop a comprehensive AI strategy that leverages advanced technologies to improve clinical outcomes, operational efficiency, and patient engagement.
• Interoperability Framework: Design and implement interoperability frameworks that facilitate seamless data exchange between disparate healthcare systems, ensuring compliance with standards such as HL7 and FHIR API’s.
• Clinical Knowledge Integration: Lead efforts to integrate clinical knowledge and best practices into AI solutions, ensuring that systems are designed to support clinical decision-making and enhance patient care.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including IT, clinical staff, and business units, to gather requirements, identify opportunities for AI and interoperability integration, and ensure stakeholder alignment.
• Research and Development: Stay current with advancements in AI, interoperability standards, and healthcare technologies, evaluating their potential applications within the organization and driving innovation.
• Performance Monitoring: Establish metrics and KPIs to assess the effectiveness of AI and interoperability solutions, making data-driven decisions to optimize performance and drive continuous improvement.
• Compliance and Governance: Ensure that all architectural initiatives adhere to regulatory requirements, ethical guidelines, and industry standards, promoting responsible AI usage and data governance within the healthcare environment.
• Technology Evaluation: Assess and recommend appropriate technologies, tools, and platforms that align with the architectural vision and support the software development of AI and interoperability solutions.
• Documentation and Standards: Create and maintain comprehensive architectural documentation, including design specifications, architectural diagrams, and coding standards, to ensure clarity and consistency across development teams.
• Collaboration with DevOps: Work closely with DevOps teams to implement CI/CD pipelines, automate testing, and ensure that deployment processes are efficient and reliable, facilitating rapid iteration and delivery of software solutions.
• Risk Management: Identify potential risks associated with architectural decisions and software implementations, developing mitigation strategies to address these risks proactively.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Healthcare Informatics, or a related field; Master’s degree or PhD preferred.
• Experience:
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in enterprise architecture, with a focus on software engineering, AI and interoperability.
• Proven track record of successfully designing and implementing AI an interoperability solutions in a healthcare setting.
• • AI/ML Proficiency:
  • Strong understanding of AI/ML algorithms, frameworks, and tools (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch) as they apply to healthcare data.
  • Experience with data preprocessing, feature engineering, and model evaluation techniques specific to healthcare applications.
• Interoperability Standards:
  • In-depth knowledge of interoperability standards (e.g., HL7, FHIR) and healthcare data exchange protocols.
  • Familiarity with data mapping and transformation processes to ensure compliance with interoperability standards.
• Software Development Languages:
  • Proficiency in software development languages such as Python or Java
  • Experience with scripting languages (e.g., JavaScript, Bash) for automation and data manipulation tasks.
• Web Development:
  • Knowledge of web development technologies (e.g., HTML, CSS, JavaScript frameworks) for building user interfaces that interact with AI and interoperability solutions.
  • Experience with RESTful APIs and web services for data exchange between applications.
• Database Technologies:
  • Experience with database technologies (e.g., SQL, NoSQL) and data modeling techniques relevant to healthcare applications.
  • Proficiency in writing complex queries and optimizing database performance for large datasets.
• Cloud Computing:
  • Familiarity with cloud computing platforms, particularly Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and their services related to AI, data storage, and deployment.
• GCP ETL Technologies:
  • Experience with Google Cloud Dataflow for stream and batch data processing.
  • Proficiency in using Google Cloud Pub/Sub for real-time messaging and event-driven architectures.
  • Knowledge of Google Cloud Storage for data storage and management.
  • Familiarity with Google BigQuery for data warehousing and analytics.
  • Experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) for deploying applications in cloud environments.
• CI/CD Practices:
  • Experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to automate the software development lifecycle.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI) for building, testing, and deploying applications.
  • Proficient in using GitHub Actions for automating workflows, including building, testing, and deploying applications.
  • Experience with canary deployment strategies using GitHub Actions to gradually roll out new features to a subset of users, allowing for monitoring and rollback if issues arise.
  • Knowledge of infrastructure as code (IaC) practices using tools like Terraform or Google Cloud Deployment Manager to manage cloud resource
• Architectural Skills:
  • Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman) and methodologies.
• Leadership Skills:
• Exceptional leadership and team management skills, with the ability to inspire and motivate a diverse team and drive organizational change.
• Communication Skills:
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to clinical and non-technical stakeholders.

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. 

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

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 03/25/2026

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