Distinguished Architect - Modernization

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.

Position Summary:

We are seeking a highly experienced and technically skilled Distinguished Architect specializing in application architecture to help drive our technology organization’s modernization strategy. This role will require a deep understanding of patterns/tools/techniques to re-architect older business applications to modern architecture. The successful candidate will be responsible for architecting modernization patterns as well as the creation of tools to facilitate modernization.

We are seeking a Distinguished Architect who:

• Possesses significant (IC) leadership experience and has driven large initiatives across an enterprise in an influencing role.
• Is deeply passionate about application architecture with significant (deep and broad) experience.
• Deep understanding of technical details but also can communicate a broader vision.
• Has worked in a broad architecture role in a large enterprise with a very complex technology landscape.
• Understands how to leverage AI to transform and drive modernization initiatives.
• Builds strong relationships and is highly collaborative with others.

What you will do:

• Be part of a team responsible for enabling the technology solutions that meet our business strategy and drive business value.
• Define and collaborate on the creation of roadmaps, architectures, standards, best practice documents and starter code reference implementations that will accelerate delivery for our technology teams to execute on the future direction of CVS Health with a focus on application modernization.
• Define future state reference architecture related to the application modernization across the enterprise..
• Collaborate and consult with technology and business partners on modernization initiatives.
• Spearhead the definition and collaborate on the creation of architecture patterns for the enterprise that promote reuse, reduces cost, manages risk, and increases speed to market.
• Possess a mastery in effectively building and maintaining strong relationships with technology and business partners.
• 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.
• Mentor and coach more junior architects in the organization.
• Strategize and outline long-term architectural plans for a complex technology environment.

Required Qualifications:

• 15+ years of relevant work experience (10+ years in architecture)
• 10+ years of experience architecting / designing complex business applications with modern stacks in public clouds.
• 10+ years of experience transforming legacy applications into modern, distributed applications in the public cloud.
• 10+ years of experience facilitating implementation of north star architectures by delivery teams through mentoring and building POCs, starter code, and other collaborative activities.
• Recognized technical leader with broad technology knowledge and recognized as an expert in application architecture.
• Substantial experience with requirements analysis, estimation, systems design, and testing.
• Expert understanding of architectural methodologies and the development of standards, architectural governance, design patterns and best practices.
• Excellent collaboration, influencing, negotiation, coaching and coalition-building skills.

* This position can work remotely from anywhere within the continental USA.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience developing architecture using agile methodology or SAFe practices.
• Master’s or PhD. degree.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field or equivalent experience.

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

$175,100.00 - $334,750.00

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: 06/01/2026

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