Platform Architect: Clinical Data & AI Systems

CVS Health; Washington; Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 288,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus program

Equity awards

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Principal Engineer to design and build a data platform on Google Cloud, leading AI-assisted development and operations. You will guide architecture across teams, implement scalable data workflows, and ensure governance in a regulated healthcare environment.

You will write production code, mentor teams, and drive adoption of AI coding agents with strong collaboration and ambiguity management skills. This is a high-impact, full-time role with comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience building production distributed systems.
• 5+ years leading architecture across multiple teams at staff or principal level.
• Experience designing and delivering large-scale batch and streaming data platforms.
• Hands-on coding in Python and Go/Java/C#.
• Deep experience with cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud (GKE, BigQuery, Spanner).
• Production ML/LLM systems experience including retrieval, extraction, evaluation and serving at scale.
• Extensive use of AI agents across design, development, testing and code review.
• Strong written communication and ability to present to senior leaders.

Responsibilities

• Design the platform architecture on Google Cloud with engineering leadership.
• Write production code for the platform's most complex components.
• Lead AI-assisted development practices, guardrails and code review.
• Run pilots measuring delivery speed and quality, and share best practices.
• Design AI-assisted operations for incident triage, runbook automation, and cost management.
• Automate audit trails, least-privilege access for AI agents, and governance.

Skills

Distributed systems

Architecture leadership

Python

Go/Java/C#

Cloud platforms (GCP)

ML/LLM systems

AI governance

Written communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Master's degree preferred

Tools

GKE

BigQuery

Spanner

Dataflow

Pub/Sub

Vertex AI

VPC Service Controls

Job description

CVS Health is seeking a Principal Engineer to design and build a data platform on Google Cloud, leading AI-assisted development and operations. You will guide architecture across teams, implement scalable data workflows, and ensure governance in a regulated healthcare environment.

You will write production code, mentor teams, and drive adoption of AI coding agents with strong collaboration and ambiguity management skills. This is a high-impact, full-time role with comprehensive benefits.