This is a senior-level architecture seat where you’re not just “designing systems,” you’re setting the rules of the road: standards, patterns, observability, CI/CD discipline, and the blueprint for how teams ship to production at scale. If you’ve actually led cloud architecture decisions (not just reviewed diagrams), this one’s built for you.
About CVS Health
CVS Health is a Fortune 10 health solutions company working to make care more connected, convenient, and compassionate across retail, digital, and insurance lines. This role sits in Innovation & Technology, helping shape cloud architecture and delivery practices across teams.
Schedule
- Full-time (40 hours/week)
- Remote
- Application window closes: 03/31/2026
What You’ll Do
- Build an architectural maturity model and roadmap to move teams from project work into stable production, while evolving execution toward Agile
- Create architecture reporting views and visualizations that improve transparency, decision-making, and observability
- Establish standard processes that speed decisions and improve how the team measures and monitors systems
- Review and enforce architecture patterns for scalability, resiliency, reliability, stability, and availability
- Help teams create safe deployment and rollback plans for major initiatives (including using AI where it makes sense)
- Partner with stakeholders across the org to assess impacts, communicate changes, and spread best practices
- Drive key architectural decisions to ensure standards and guidelines are met across initiatives
- Apply distributed systems knowledge (race conditions, parallelism, concurrency control) to real-world design choices
What You Need
- 7+ years hands-on, consumer-facing enterprise app development experience (including 5+ years in architecture)
- Strong problem-solving and decision-making for technology selection and architecture best practices
- Cloud solution architecture experience in at least one of: GCP, Azure, AWS
- Expert understanding of architecture methodologies and best practices
- DevOps tooling experience (Jenkins, CI/CD pipelines, Git) and solid DevOps principles
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Preferred Qualifications
- AWS and GCP experience
- Experience with APIs, caching, web components, content management, web security, SSR/CSR, microservices, identity management
- Mobile performance optimization (iOS/Android)
- Modern JavaScript (ES6+), UI middleware
- Packaging/bundling/library tooling
- SAFe and Agile practice experience
- Security-oriented project experience
- Strong modern API design patterns
- Comfortable adopting and implementing new approaches, including AI solutions
Benefits
- Pay range: $106,605–$284,280/year (based on experience, education, geography, and other factors)
- Eligible for bonus/commission/short-term incentives + equity award target
- Medical plan options
- 401(k) with matching + employee stock purchase plan
- No-cost wellness programs, counseling, and financial coaching
- PTO and flexible work schedules (eligibility-based)
- Family leave, dependent care resources, colleague assistance programs, tuition assistance, and more (eligibility-based)
If you’re not already operating at “I set standards across teams” level, this role will eat you alive. If you are, it’s a high-impact gig with a real pay band and a clear deadline.
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