Job Description
Lead technical architecture initiatives for that can span many value streams (e.g. Agile/SAFe Release Trains), helping to ensure successful product deliveries. You will influence and lead teams across the business unit
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.
Identifies opportunities to leverage common solutions for cross-cutting concerns for broader and more complex functionality at the program and/or enterprise level
Partner with key stakeholders to establish and adopt architectural best practices, guidelines, and standards. Evangelize, mentor, and coach all on the same.
Lead Proof-Of-Concepts and Spike Solutions, and provide Reference Architectures and Baseline Implementations when appropriate
Provide architectural leadership in identification of technology partnerships
Provide guidance, direction and mentorship to Lead Architects
Provide guidance to developers and other stakeholders regarding the design of server applications, encompassing APIs and micro-services, containers, databases, cloud infrastructures, and cloud services, etc.
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
Drive buy vs build evaluations, including consideration of OSS
Participates in high-level estimation
Required Qualifications
15-20 years as a software developer/architect. Experience leading technical architecture initiatives that impact many value streams (e.g. multiple Agile/SAFe Release Trains)
Experience and proficiency with modern languages, frameworks, and technologies such as Java, Python, Node.js, messaging queuing infrastructures, as well as AWS or GCP cloud infrastructure and services
Expert in the design and development of complex systems; employs a disciplined and rigorous approach
Substantial experience with requirements analysis, estimation, systems and application design, and testing
Expert with popular Design Patterns catalogues
Expert in distributed computing architectures, including race conditions, parallelism, and concurrency control
Recognized leader with technical teams, broad technical knowledge, and considered an expert in multiple technical subjects
Experience designing RESTful APIs that facilitate a superior UX or simplify systems integration.
Experience with RDBMS and/or NoSQL databases. Understands the benefits and trade-offs of both. Familiar with normalization and denormalization, sharding, and other data-centric patterns
Excellent collaboration, influencing, evangelization, negotiation, coaching, mentoring, and coalition-building skills. Ability to work with persons at all levels, from the most junior person to VP levels, in all job functions (e.g. product, UX, developers, QA, DevOps).
Excellent verbal and written communications
Ability to manage multiple competing priorities with minimal supervision. Self-directed
A great team player, with demonstrable experience delivering superior software products via agile methodologies
Experience on an Agile Team
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with micro-services
Experience architecting solutions for AWS or Google clouds
Experience with distributed caching solutions; understands the factors that enable effective caching
Exposure to Big-Data and/or Machine Learning
Exposure to CI/CD and DevOps
Experience with SAFe Software Development Principles
Education
Bachelor degree in Computer Science or a closely-related discipline, or an equivalent combination of formal education and experience
Business Overview
At CVS Health, we are joined in a common purpose: helping people on their path to better health. We are working to transform health care through innovations that make quality care more accessible, easier to use, less expensive and patient-focused. Working together and organizing around the individual, we are pioneering a new approach to total health that puts people at the heart.
We strive to promote and sustain a culture of diversity, inclusion and belonging every day. CVS Health is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We do not discriminate in recruiting, hiring or promotion based on race, ethnicity, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or protected veteran status or on any other basis or characteristic prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local law. We proudly support and encourage people with military experience (active, veterans, reservists and National Guard) as well as military spouses to apply for CVS Health job opportunities.
