Senior Data Platform Architect — Multi-Cloud & Databricks

CVS Health; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 288,000; Full time

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Principal Engineer, Data Platforms to lead the architecture and governance of the Unified Ingestion Platform and Federated Data Lake, enabling observable, secure, cloud‑native data workflows across Azure, AWS, and GCP.

You will own Databricks strategy, drive IaC/Policy‑as‑Code, and partner with security, infra, and business teams to deliver a scalable, cost‑efficient data platform that supports AI/ML workloads and multi‑cloud operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from accredited university or equivalent work experience (HS diploma + 4 years relevant experience).
• Experience in multi-cloud architecture across Azure, AWS, and GCP.
• 8+ years of experience implementing Infrastructure‑as‑Code, platform automation, CI/CD pipelines, and Policy‑as‑Code controls.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the architecture, strategy, and multi‑year roadmap for the Unified Ingestion Platform and Federated Data Lake supporting observability, security, and operational telemetry data across the enterprise.
• Architect and scale high‑volume ingestion and processing capabilities supporting 250+ TB per day across logs, metrics, traces, security events, and operational datasets while driving platform modernization and convergence initiatives.
• Establish and govern enterprise Databricks architecture, including multi‑cloud account structures, workspace strategies, environment isolation, metadata management, data governance, lineage, and secure access models.
• Lead implementation of Infrastructure‑as‑Code, Policy‑as‑Code, automated provisioning, and enterprise‑grade CI/CD pipelines to enable reliable, standardized, and scalable platform operations.
• Define enterprise security, governance, observability, reliability, and operational excellence practices while aligning platform standards with OpenTelemetry (OTEL), Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF), and enterprise compliance requirements.

Skills

Cloud data platforms

Technical leadership

Enterprise architecture

CI/CD & IaC

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Databricks

Terraform

GitHub Actions

OpenTelemetry

Job description

CVS Health is seeking a Principal Engineer, Data Platforms to lead the architecture and governance of the Unified Ingestion Platform and Federated Data Lake, enabling observable, secure, cloud‑native data workflows across Azure, AWS, and GCP.

You will own Databricks strategy, drive IaC/Policy‑as‑Code, and partner with security, infra, and business teams to deliver a scalable, cost‑efficient data platform that supports AI/ML workloads and multi‑cloud operations.