Senior AI Architecture Leader

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

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a senior Architect/Engineer to lead high-level AI and system architecture initiatives across our healthcare technology platforms. The role focuses on designing scalable architectures, APIs, data stores, cloud services and microservices to enable AI-driven solutions that drive business value.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with business partners, and define roadmaps ensuring non-functional requirements like performance, security, and availability are met.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of relevant work experience with at least 8+ years in architecture.
• 10+ years of experience designing complex integrations with a focus on performance engineering and loose coupling using APIs, microservices, and event-driven architecture.
• 8+ years of experience and proficiency with modern languages, frameworks, and technologies.
• 6+ years of experience facilitating implementation of north star architectures by delivery teams through mentoring and building POCs, starter code, and other collaborative activities.
• Expert-level understanding of architectural methodologies/best practices, business climate, and/or regulation that affect architecture decisions.
• Recognized technical leader with full stack technology knowledge and recognized as an expert in one or more technical subjects.
• Substantial experience with requirements analysis, estimation, systems and application design, and testing.
• Experience with defining architecture using the C4 model or equivalent with a focus on system context, container, and component diagrams.

Responsibilities

• Be part of a team responsible for enabling the technology solutions that meets our business strategy and drives business value.
• Define and collaborate on 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 including a focus on applied AI.
• Evaluate market trends, execute buy vs. build decisions and assess cost and the impact on targeted business outcomes.
• Define future state architecture that enables and adopts the strategy for Artificial Intelligence, APIs, data stores, cloud infrastructures, cloud services, and microservices.
• Collaborate and consult with technology and business partners to optimize business applications and systems that adopt modern architecture and technologies especially around AI.
• Develop and maintain a strategic vision to support capabilities aligned to the CVS Health platform based on key business drivers and technology trends.
• Define and collaborate on the creation of frameworks for the enterprise that promote reuse, reduces cost, manages risk, and increases speed to market.
• Effectively build and maintain strong relationships with technology and business partners to establish trust and influence key business outcomes and decisions.
• Provide guidance, direction and mentorship to engineers and other stakeholders regarding the architecture and design of the respective applications.
• 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.
• Participates in high-level estimation.
• Mentor and coach junior architects and seek the opportunity to bring in continuous improvements to implement.

Skills

Architectural design

API & microservices

AI/ML/Agentic AI

Cloud

Data platforms

Hybrid solutions

Performance engineering

Mentoring & leadership

C4 model

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

SAFe

Job description

CVS Health is seeking a senior Architect/Engineer to lead high-level AI and system architecture initiatives across our healthcare technology platforms. The role focuses on designing scalable architectures, APIs, data stores, cloud services and microservices to enable AI-driven solutions that drive business value.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with business partners, and define roadmaps ensuring non-functional requirements like performance, security, and availability are met.