Principal Architect - Distributed Systems

CVS Health

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Remote (Work At Home-Arizona, US) Posted 42 days ago $144,200–$288,400 / year
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TL;DR

The Distributed Systems Architect at CVS Health is a senior-level role within the Vulnerability Services Engine (VSE) team, responsible for defining and evolving the technical architecture of an enterprise-wide vulnerability management platform. This hands-on position involves providing architectural leadership in distributed systems, big-data platforms, and application design while ensuring operational excellence as part of the delivery team. Key responsibilities include designing system architectures, selecting components and frameworks, implementing integration strategies across multi-cloud environments, and leading performance engineering practices. The ideal candidate has extensive experience with large-scale distributed systems, big-data platforms, and web-based applications, along with hands-on coding proficiency in Java, Python, or JavaScript. Deep expertise in Apache Spark, Databricks, and modern data-processing frameworks is preferred, as well as a background in security and vulnerability management.

Skills

Apache Spark Databricks Kafka Java Python Javascript ReactJs AWS Azure GCP CI/CD Performance Engineering Observability Vendor Evaluations Multi-cloud Environments Big-data Platforms High-volume Data Integration Web and Service-based Applications Distributed Systems Architecture

What you'll do

  • Provide technical ownership and architectural leadership for the VSE platform's data ingestion, analytics, and distributed processing.
  • Design and enforce system architectures, component selection, and implementation standards for vulnerability telemetry.
  • Lead big-data design using platforms like Apache Spark, Databricks, and Kafka for large-scale telemetry processing.
  • Define and implement integration strategies across multi-cloud environments for internal and external systems.
  • Establish performance engineering practices, including scalability testing and system tuning for operational excellence.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of experience designing and implementing large-scale distributed systems
  • 5+ years of hands-on experience with big-data platforms and high-volume data integration
  • Proven ability to operate in enterprise-scale, mission-critical environments with strong performance requirements
  • Hands-on coding proficiency in at least one of Java, Python, or JavaScript
  • 5+ years in senior technical leadership roles with demonstrated hands-on ownership
  • Deep experience leading distributed systems and big-data design for large-scale telemetry ingestion and analytics
  • Expert-level knowledge in distributed systems performance engineering and observability

Market check

Salary context

This $144,200–$288,400 range sits above 53% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$163,900–$260,000

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$174,637–$245,750

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 240 comparable postings.

* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.

Employer

About CVS Health

CVS Health is a leading American healthcare company operating retail pharmacies, pharmacy benefit management services, and a health insurance segment through Aetna, one of the nation''s largest health insurers. Industry: Healthcare & Pharmacy

CVS Health currently has 93 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $118,450–$260,590 across 90 roles with salary data.

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