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This role pays more than
71%
of similar roles. Most pay
$171,912–$227,000
— the blue band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$216k
versus about
$199k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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
119 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$106,605–$260,590
across 115 roles with salary data.
The Principal Data Architect serves as a senior individual contributor within Aetna Technology, acting as the deepest technical authority on data architecture. This role is responsible for defining the technical direction for how data is modeled, stored, moved, governed, and consumed across a multivendor, multicloud data estate. Key responsibilities include owning data reference architectures, defining the data mesh operating model, and establishing singular systems of record. The architect will build golden paths for pipelines, embed automated governance for PHI and regulated data, and provide the infrastructure for AI and analytics capabilities. Required expertise includes Snowflake, GCP/BigQuery, and AWS, alongside skills in data lineage, zero-trust patterns, and infrastructure-as-code. The role solves complex problems regarding data ownership, scalability, and cost-aware architecture in a highly regulated healthcare environment.
AWS
Lakehouse
Apache Iceberg
Delta Lake
Data Mesh
Data Products
Domain-Driven Design
Event-Driven Architecture
IAM
Data Governance
Metadata Management
data, lineage
AWS DataZone
Lake Formation
Glue Data Catalog
Athena
EMR
Redshift
S3
SAFe
Agile