Solution Architect with Cloud AI

Ethereum Technologies LLC; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in Richmond, Virginia is seeking a Lead Architect to drive technical initiatives in creating secure and scalable systems. The ideal candidate will have over 10 years experience in enterprise application development, with a strong background in Cloud (AWS) and AI technology. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to define non-functional requirements and lead the architectural design for innovative solutions. This role offers a chance to improve healthcare accessibility and reliability through technology.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on enterprise level application development experience.
• 4 years of recent experience with Cloud (AWS) and AI Technology.
• 6+ years in architecture, leading technical architecture initiatives.
• Expert understanding of architectural methodologies.
• Experience with design of server applications and complex systems.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical architecture initiatives for multiple value streams.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to create scalable and secure systems.
• Define non-Functional Requirements like performance and scalability.
• Guide and mentor Architects/Sr. Architects and other collaborators.
• Evaluate new technologies and vendors.

Skills

Consumer facing enterprise level application development

Cloud (AWS)

AI Technology

Architectural methodologies

Modern languages and frameworks

Micro-services

Distributed computing architectures

RESTful APIs

DevOps principles

Communication and collaboration

Tools

Jenkins

CI/CD Pipeline

GIT

Job description

Job Description

CVS Health Digital is looking for an outcome-driven Lead Architect to join our mission to create innovative digital solutions that make health care more accessible, more integrated, and more reliable for more people, both online and in our stores. As Lead Architect, you will be working with design, research, product management and engineering teams and work with other team members to translate business requirements into architecture runways for application development. Leveraging your expertise in key technologies, you will help build products that will bring about the change in the healthcare industry and improve the lives of hundreds of millions of people.

This role requires collaborating with multiple stakeholders, including product management, UX design and engineering teams, to create systems that are scalable, extensible, performant and secure.

• Lead technical architecture initiatives for multiple value streams (e.g. Agile Release Trains), helping to ensure successful product deliveries.
• Identify opportunities to leverage common solutions for cross-cutting concerns.
• Oversee build vs buy evaluations.
• Partner with key stakeholders to establish and adopt architectural best practices, guidelines, and standards. Evangelize, mentor, and coach all on the same.
• Understand the product requirement and product vision, evaluate the high level technical feasibility, blocker or risks, lead the solution discussion, translate them into architecture solutions.
• Communicate and present solution to business partners, leadership and engineering team on solution technical blueprint, collaborate to make successful product deliveries.
• Define non-Functional Requirements (e.g. performance, availability and fail-over, scalability, security, etc.). Ensure that these are incorporated in the design and supported in the final product.
• Guide engineering and other stakeholders on architectural best practices and standards. Evangelize, mentor, and coach all on the same.
• Oversee the evolution of architectural roadmaps for your domain based on product requirements and long term vision. Balance various aspects like feature development, reducing technical debt and strategic architectural objectives.
• Collaborate with multiple Agile value stream execution teams in guiding large solutions across multiple planning/execution cycles.
• Evaluate new technologies and vendors. Guide POCs and discovery work as needed.
• Provide guidance, direction and mentorship to Architects/Sr. Architects and other collaborators.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands‑on consumer facing enterprise level application development experience.
• 4 years of recent experience working with Cloud (AWS) and AI Technology within Solution Architecture.
• Of which, 6+ Years in architecture, including leading technical architecture initiatives for multiple value streams e.g. Agile Release Train.
• Expert understanding of architectural methodologies and best practices.
• Experience and proficiency with modern languages, frameworks, and technologies.
• Design of server applications, encompassing APIs and micro‑services, containers, databases, cloud infrastructures, and cloud services.
• Design and development of complex systems/user interfaces.
• Distributed computing architectures, including race conditions, parallelism, and concurrency control.
• Modern API patterns, including RESTful APIs.
• Recognized ability to explain highly complex technical architectures, designs and issues clearly and understandably to all constituents.
• Experience with Jenkins, CI/CD Pipeline, GIT and other DevOps principles.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, influencing, evangelization, negotiation, coaching, mentoring, and coalition‑building skills. Ability to work with persons in all job functions (e.g. Product, UX, Developers, QA, DevOps).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with SAFE practices or able to work in SAFE practices and agile methodologies.
• Good understanding of ADA and other regulatory compliances including PCI, PII and PHI.
• Experience related to security‑oriented projects.

ETHEREUM TECHNOLOGIES LLC is an equal opportunity employer inclusive of female, minority, disability and veterans, (M/F/D/V). Hiring, promotion, transfer, compensation, benefits, discipline, termination and all other employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, national origin, citizenship/immigration status, veteran status or any other protected status. ETHEREUM TECHNOLOGIES LLC will not make any posting or employment decision that does not comply with applicable laws relating to labor and employment, equal opportunity, employment eligibility requirements or related matters. Nor will ETHEREUM TECHNOLOGIES LLC require in a posting or otherwise U.S. citizenship or lawful permanent residency in the U.S. as a condition of employment except as necessary to comply with law, regulation, executive order, or federal, state, or local government contract.