Senior Data Architect — Multicloud Data Strategy & Governance

CVS Health; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 144,000 - 288,000; Full time

Job summary

CVS Health’s Aetna Technology division seeks a Principal Data Architect to lead data architecture across a multivendor, multicloud estate. The role sets technical direction for data modeling, storage, and governance, defining reference architectures and the systems of record.

You will drive design authority, establish zero-trust data access, and collaborate with platform vendors and domain teams to enable scalable analytics and AI initiatives.

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on data architecture across multi-vendor, multi-cloud environments.
• Experience owning enterprise data architectures and golden-path patterns for data products.
• Strong governance, lineage, quality controls for regulated-data (PHI or similar).
• Knowledge of data mesh concepts and data platforms in large-scale environments.

Responsibilities

• Own data reference architectures across ingestion, storage, and semantic layers.
• Define data mesh operating model and domain-owned data products.
• Establish systems of record ownership and data access controls.
• Design golden paths for pipelines and data products to enable scalable delivery.

Skills

Data architecture

Multicloud platforms

Data governance

Solution design

Influence without authority

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Snowflake

GCP/BigQuery

AWS

Job description

CVS Health’s Aetna Technology division seeks a Principal Data Architect to lead data architecture across a multivendor, multicloud estate. The role sets technical direction for data modeling, storage, and governance, defining reference architectures and the systems of record.

You will drive design authority, establish zero-trust data access, and collaborate with platform vendors and domain teams to enable scalable analytics and AI initiatives.