Senior Data Platform Architect — Multi-Cloud Ingestion

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

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Principal Engineer, Data Platforms to own the architecture and evolution of a unified ingestion platform and federated data lake across Azure, AWS, and GCP. You will drive governance, security, and operational telemetry initiatives while enabling scalable analytics and AI/ML workloads.

You will lead platform standards, infrastructure-as-code, and policy-as-code adoption, partnering with security, operations, and business stakeholders to deliver a cost-efficient, resilient

Qualifications

• 10+ years architecting enterprise cloud data platforms and ingestion ecosystems.
• 8+ years designing and administering Databricks platforms (Spark, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog).
• 8+ years implementing IaC, CI/CD, and policy-as-code using Terraform/GitHub Actions.

Responsibilities

• Define architecture, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for data platforms across multiple clouds.
• Architect and scale high-volume ingestion and processing (250+ TB per day).
• Establish enterprise Databricks architecture, security and governance models.
• Lead IaC/Policy-as-Code implementations and enterprise CI/CD pipelines.
• Define security, governance, observability, and reliability practices aligning OTEL/OCSF.

Skills

Enterprise cloud data platforms

Observability governance

Cloud-native engineering

Leadership & mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Databricks

Terraform

GitHub Actions

OpenTelemetry

OCSF

Job description

CVS Health is seeking a Principal Engineer, Data Platforms to own the architecture and evolution of a unified ingestion platform and federated data lake across Azure, AWS, and GCP. You will drive governance, security, and operational telemetry initiatives while enabling scalable analytics and AI/ML workloads.

You will lead platform standards, infrastructure-as-code, and policy-as-code adoption, partnering with security, operations, and business stakeholders to deliver a cost-efficient, resilient