# Lead Architect

**Company**: CVS Health
**Location**: Hartford, CT
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $106,605.00 - $260,590.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We're building a world of health around every individual , shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience.

The Lead Architect is responsible for defining, designing, and evolving scalable, secure, resilient, and high-performing Solution Architectures that align with the organization's business objectives, technology standards, architectural principles, and Target State Architectures.

**Accountabilities include:**

- Define and execute architecture strategies and roadmaps that enable business capabilities and outcomes while advancing the organization toward its Target State Architectures.

- Provide architecture leadership across assigned initiatives and domains, guiding solution teams from concept through implementation and ensuring alignment with established architecture roadmaps and strategic direction.

- Develop end-to-end architectural designs and solution patterns that are scalable, secure, resilient, maintainable, and aligned with enterprise standards and cloud-native principles.

- Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and architectural guidance to engineers, solution architects, and technology teams, promoting architecture standards, reusable patterns, and Target State adoption.

- Partner with cross-functional business and technology teams to translate business strategies and requirements into effective architecture solutions, identifying appropriate trade-offs across capability, cost, complexity, risk, and speed to market.

- Facilitate architecture discussions and decision-making across business, product, engineering, data, security, infrastructure, and technology leadership teams to establish alignment, resolve technical challenges, and drive solutions forward.

- Evaluate emerging technologies, platforms, tools, and architecture patterns to identify opportunities for modernization, simplification, automation, and improved business and technology outcomes, with an emphasis on cloud-native and cloud-first approaches.

- Lead architecture and design reviews, identify architectural gaps, technical debt, risks, and modernization opportunities, and recommend actionable improvements.

**Required Qualifications**

- 5+ years of experience working as a Solution Architect, Lead Architect, or in a comparable architecture role.

- 7+ years of technology design and development experience using modern technology stacks, including significant experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.

- Demonstrated experience designing cloud-native solutions using modern application, API, integration, event-driven, data, and infrastructure patterns.

- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to decompose complex business and technical challenges, identify root causes, evaluate alternatives, and develop pragmatic solutions.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Experience with and/or professional certification in one or more major cloud platforms, including GCP, Azure, or AWS, is preferred.

- Experience leading or supporting large-scale modernization programs, including migrations from legacy platforms to modern, cloud-based architectures, is preferred.

- Experience with healthcare technology, particularly Medicare, Medicaid, Dual-Eligible populations, and/or government programs, is preferred.

**Education**

- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience required.

**Pay Range** The typical pay range for this role is: $106,605.00 - $260,590.00

**Benefits** This full-time position is eligible for a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial well-being of colleagues and their families.

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## Skills

### Required
- cloud platforms
- Solution Architect
- Lead Architect
- modern technology stacks
- cloud-native solutions
- API
- integration
- event-driven
- data
- infrastructure patterns

### Nice to have
- GCP
- Azure
- AWS
- healthcare technology
- Medicare
- Medicaid
- Dual-Eligible populations
- government programs

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