Remote Principal Data Architect - Data Mesh & Multi-Cloud

9025 CVS Shared Services Resources LLC; Colorado; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

CVS Health seeks a Principal Data Architect to lead data architecture across Aetna Technology, guiding data modeling, storage, movement, governance, and consumption in a multivendor, multicloud environment. The role accepts remote work from anywhere in the continental USA and emphasizes design authority over data assets.

The successful candidate will own reference architectures, establish data mesh and systems of record, and drive secure, scalable data solutions with strong governance and cost

Qualifications

• 12+ years in technology with hands-on data architecture experience.
• Expert-level data platform architecture across multivendor/multicloud environments.
• Strong governance, lineage, quality, and regulated-data controls.

Responsibilities

• Own data reference architectures across multicloud data estate.
• Define data mesh operating model with domain-owned data products.
• Establish systems of record ownership and authoritative datasets.
• Design and maintain pipelines, data products, and golden paths for ingestion and publishing.
• Embed governance, lineage, and quality as automated gates in pipelines.
• Define controls for regulated/sensitive data (PHI) with default inheritance.
• Establish zero-trust patterns for data access and least privilege.
• Support AI/analytics enablement with data contracts for models.

Skills

Data architecture

Multicloud

Data governance

PHI controls

Data mesh

Enterprise data architecture

Snowflake

GCP BigQuery

AWS

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Snowflake

GCP/BigQuery

AWS

Job description

CVS Health seeks a Principal Data Architect to lead data architecture across Aetna Technology, guiding data modeling, storage, movement, governance, and consumption in a multivendor, multicloud environment. The role accepts remote work from anywhere in the continental USA and emphasizes design authority over data assets.

The successful candidate will own reference architectures, establish data mesh and systems of record, and drive secure, scalable data solutions with strong governance and cost