Lead Platform Architect

At CVS Health were building a world of health around every consumer and surrounding ourselves with dedicated colleagues who are passionate about transforming health care.

As the nations leading health solutions company we reach millions of Americans through our local presence digital channels and more than 300000 purposedriven colleagues caring for people where when and how they choose in a way that is uniquely more connected more convenient and more compassionate. And we do it all with heart each and every day.

Position Summary
Join CVS Health as a Lead Architect. As a Lead Architect you will work with both fulltime employees and contracted resources to execute project work within the IT organization at CVS Health. You will deliver the design develop and implement digital platform and integration solutions by applying advanced technical expertise to architect and code software applications conduct system testing and debugging collaborate with crossfunctional teams and contribute to the overall technical direction and innovation of engineering projects.

*This position can work remote from anywhere in the USA.

• Design and define the technical architecture integration architecture and infrastructure required for solutions.
• Write code develop software components and implement complex functionalities according to project requirements.
• Collaborate with other members of the development team and stakeholders to make highlevel architectural decisions proposes design patterns and ensure scalability performance and maintainability of digital and platform solutions.
• Leverage advanced programming skills to design and implement complex features optimize performance and ensure code efficiency.
• Integrate various software components or systems ensuring seamless communication and interoperability between different parts of the solution.
• Write and execute comprehensive test cases conduct code reviews perform debugging and troubleshoot issues to ensure the reliability stability and high quality of digital and platform solutions.
• Participate in agile or other development methodologies attend meetings contributes to project planning and help drive the progress and success of projects.

• Explore new tools frameworks and techniques to improve solutions and drive innovation within the development team.
• Create and maintain technical documentation including system designs architecture diagrams code documentation and other relevant documentation while sharing knowledge and expertise with team members ensuring effective knowledge transfer and collaboration.
• Design and Develop API and Event architectures.
• Work with the team to decompose existing monolithic applications to design and deliver Architectures for complex custom projects using the latest OpenSource technologies.
• Define API practices that will allow the Specialty Organization to build technological ecosystems for efficient experimentation and continuous improvement.
• Foster an environment that empowers teams and facilitates the development of your team members setting everyone up to deliver their best work.
• Define API governance and how it applies in practice.
• Specify Systems architecture and approaches to manage architectural debt.
• Identify API design techniques and strategies for API evolution.
• Communicate design approaches to teams and organization.
• Manage stakeholders and interact with team at all levels of the organization.
• Focus on integration architecture and domain modeling and articulate the pros/cons of different approaches.
• Work across teams to explore integration options.
• Facilitate discussions to ensure alignment with architectural vision be able to course correct on architectural deviations.
• Evangelize for APIs within an organization.
• Communicate the value of good domain modeling and API design to business stakeholders.
• Communicate team and organizational design approaches to decouple development efforts.
• Train new technology leaders and developers on platform thinking.

Required Qualifications

• 7 years of experience in Java J2EE Design Patterns ObjectOriented design Algorithms and Optimizations
• 5 years Experience building and consuming Micro Services with Spring Cloud Spring Boot 3 years of Experience in backend application development: Java Spring/Spring Boot
• 3 years Experience in integration layer development: RESTful APIs/ Spring/Web Services/JMS
• 5 years Experience with: SQL and relational databases (e.g. Oracle Maria DB MySQL)
• 3 years Experience leading building and executing strategic activities
• 3 years of Experience with Kubernetes and AKS
  3 years of Strong mentorship

• Adept at problem solving and decisionmaking skills
• Adept at collaboration and teamwork
• Adept at growth mindset (agility and developing yourself and others) skills
• Adept at and delivery (planning delivering and supporting) skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experienced with API and CICD pipeline design
• Experience with GitHub Groovy Ansible Spring Cloud Spring Gateway Spring Boot Docker
• Experience leading building and executing strategic activities
• Ability to adapt quickly to new technology and business requirements
• Interface with key project stakeholders like management cross functional team leadership offshore and onsite teams R&D customers and project managers is required
• Understanding of key development skills; such as object oriented design design patterns service architectures and the development lifecycle.

Education

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivelant experience

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual fulltime salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience education geography and other relevant factors. This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus commission or shortterm incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above. This position also includes an award target in the companys equity award program.

Our people fuel our future. Our teams reflect the customers patients members and communities we serve and we are committed to fostering a workplace where every colleague feels valued and that they belong.

Great benefits for great people

We take pride in our comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits investing in the physical emotional and financial wellness of our colleagues and their families to help them be the healthiest they can be. In addition to our competitive wages our great benefits include:

• Affordable medical plan options a 401(k) plan (including matching company contributions) and an employee stock purchase plan.

• Nocost programs for all colleagues including wellness screenings tobacco cessation and weight management programs confidential counseling and financial coaching.

• Benefit solutions that address the different needs and preferences of our colleagues including paid time off flexible work schedules family leave dependent care resources colleague assistance programs tuition assistance retiree medical access and many other benefits depending on eligibility.

For more information visit anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 07/28/2025

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal state and local laws.