Senior Platform Architect — AI for Clinical Data

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental & vision

Retirement savings options

Paid time off

Wellness programs

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Principal Engineer to design and build a health data platform on Google Cloud. You will lead AI agent-driven development and operate scalable data and ML systems in a regulated environment, collaborating with teams across engineering, security and product leadership.

The role emphasizes architecture leadership, hands-on coding in Python and a choice of Go/Java/C#, and deep cloud experience. Strong communication and vision for reliable, compliant platforms are essential.

Qualifications

• 12+ years building production distributed systems.
• 5+ years leading architecture across multiple teams at staff/principal level.
• Experience designing large-scale batch and streaming data platforms.
• Hands-on coding: Python plus Go/Java/C#.
• Cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud, with GKE/BigQuery/Spanner/Dataflow.
• Machine learning/LLM systems production experience.
• Experience using AI agents across design, development and reviews.
• Strong written communication and diagrams, with senior leader exposure.
• Experience in regulated environments with controls and audits.

Responsibilities

• Design platform architecture on Google Cloud with leadership.
• Write production code for critical components.
• Translate prototypes into reference implementations.
• Lead AI coding practices, guardrails, reviews and oversight.
• Run pilots to measure impact on delivery speed and quality.
• Maintain architecture diagrams and docs as code.
• Design AI-assisted operations for incidents and automation.
• Ensure least-privilege access and audit trails for AI agents.
• Develop and present technical business cases to executives.

Skills

Distributed systems

Architecture leadership

Python

Go/Java/C#

Google Cloud

ML/LLM systems

AI-assisted development

Communication

Regulated environments

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/engineering

Master's degree preferred

Tools

GKE

BigQuery

Spanner

Dataflow

Pub/Sub

Vertex AI

Job description

CVS Health is seeking a Principal Engineer to design and build a health data platform on Google Cloud. You will lead AI agent-driven development and operate scalable data and ML systems in a regulated environment, collaborating with teams across engineering, security and product leadership.

The role emphasizes architecture leadership, hands-on coding in Python and a choice of Go/Java/C#, and deep cloud experience. Strong communication and vision for reliable, compliant platforms are essential.