Lead Solution Architect

At CVS Health, we’re building a world of health around every consumer and surrounding ourselves with dedicated colleagues who are passionate about transforming health care. As the nation’s leading health solutions company, we reach millions of Americans through our local presence, digital channels and more than 300,000 purpose‑driven colleagues – caring for people where, when and how they choose in a way that is uniquely more connected, more convenient and more compassionate.

We do it all with heart, each and every day.

CVS Health is looking for an outcome‑driven Lead Solution Architect who will be working with design, research, product management and engineering teams to translate business requirements into architecture runways for application development plans that enable innovative digital solutions. This role will make health care more accessible, more integrated, and more reliable for people, both online and in our stores.

You should have extensive application development knowledge and experience and the ability to understand, evaluate and influence business‑decision needs. You will also need to have experiences and expertise in providing architecture support to optimize business operations.

• Serve as technical architecture expert for a single value stream (e.g. Portfolio), helping to ensure successful product deliveries.
• Manage the evolution of architectural roadmaps for your domain, showing how new features are released or updated, with an eye on paying down technical debt with minimal disruption.
• Understand the product requirement and product vision, evaluate the high‑level technical feasibility, blockers or risks, and lead the solution discussion.
• Work on the overall solution engaging with other architecture colleagues on UI, API and service level logic workflow, integration strategy and technical blueprint.
• Communicate and present solution to business partners and leadership, and align the engineering team on the solution technical blueprint.
• Lead Proof‑Of‑Concepts and Spike Solutions, and provide “Reference Architectures” and “Baseline Implementations” when appropriate.
• Evaluate new technologies, vendors and conduct hands‑on POCs on new or emerging technologies.
• Provide guidance to developers and other stakeholders on architectural best practices, guidelines and standards. Evangelize, mentor and coach all on the same.
• Provide guidance, direction and mentorship to Architects.
• Provide guidance to developers and other stakeholders regarding the design of server applications, encompassing APIs and micro‑services, domain‑driven design, containers, databases, cloud infrastructures and cloud services.
• Ensure all Non‑Functional Requirements (e.g. performance, availability and fail‑over, scalability, security, etc.) are properly articulated, and work with all parties to guarantee that the software products that are delivered meet these objectives.
• Participate in high‑level estimation.
• Mentor and coach junior engineers and seek opportunity to bring in continuous improvements.

• 7+ years of experience with concepts of service API, caching, web component, content management, web security, SSR/CSR, micro‑services, identity management.
• 5+ years of hands‑on consumer‑facing enterprise‑level application development experience.
• 3+ years of experience architecting solutions for Cloud (GCP, Azure, or AWS).

• Experience and proficiency with modern languages, frameworks, and technologies.
• Experience with the design and development of complex systems/user interfaces; employs a disciplined and rigorous approach.
• Experience with requirements analysis, estimation, systems and application design, and testing.
• Experience with distributed computing architectures, including race conditions, parallelism, and concurrency control.
• Experience driving a build‑vs‑buy evaluation to completion.
• Experience with ES6/ES7/ES8, UI Middleware.
• Experience with packaging, bundling technologies, and library management tools.
• Experience with Circle
  
  CI, CI/CD Pipeline, GIT and other Dev Ops principles.
• Experience with responsive, adaptive UI design and development.
• Experience…