Solutions Architect with AI

Codetech • Hartford, CT

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About The Position

CVS Health Digital is seeking an outcome-driven Lead Architect to help create digital solutions that make health care more accessible, integrated, and reliable. The Lead Architect works with design, research, product management, and engineering teams to translate business requirements into architecture runways for application development. The role collaborates with stakeholders to design scalable, extensible, performant, and secure systems and supports successful product delivery across multiple Agile value streams.

The architect evaluates product requirements and vision, assesses technical feasibility and risks, leads solution discussions, and communicates technical blueprints to business partners, leadership, and engineering teams. The role defines and ensures implementation of non-functional requirements; develops architectural roadmaps; evaluates technologies and vendors; guides proofs of concept and discovery; and mentors architects and other collaborators. The position also promotes architectural standards and best practices, identifies opportunities for shared solutions, and oversees build-versus-buy evaluations.

Requirements

• 10+ years of hands-on consumer-facing enterprise application development experience, including 6+ years in architecture and leading technical architecture initiatives for multiple value streams, such as an Agile Release Train.
• Expert understanding of architectural methodologies and best practices.
• Experience and proficiency with modern languages, frameworks, and technologies.
• Significant experience designing server applications, including APIs, microservices, containers, databases, cloud infrastructures, and cloud services.
• Experience designing and developing complex systems and user interfaces.
• Experience with distributed computing architectures, including race conditions, parallelism, and concurrency control.
• Experience with modern API patterns, including RESTful APIs.
• Ability to clearly explain complex technical architectures, designs, and issues to a range of audiences.
• Experience with Jenkins, CI/CD pipelines, Git, and other DevOps principles.
• Strong communication, collaboration, influencing, evangelization, negotiation, coaching, mentoring, and coalition-building skills.
• Ability to work with people across job functions, including Product, UX, Developers, QA, and DevOps.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a closely related discipline, or an equivalent combination of formal education and experience.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with SAFe practices or ability to work within SAFe practices and Agile methodologies.
• Good understanding of ADA and other regulatory compliance, including PCI, PII, and PHI.
• Experience related to security-oriented projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical architecture initiatives for multiple value streams, such as Agile Release Trains, to support successful product delivery.
• Identify opportunities to use common solutions for cross-cutting concerns.
• Oversee build-versus-buy evaluations.
• Partner with stakeholders to establish and adopt architectural best practices, guidelines, and standards; evangelize, mentor, and coach others on them.
• Assess product requirements and vision, evaluate technical feasibility and blockers or risks, lead solution discussions, and translate requirements into architecture solutions.
• Communicate and present technical solution blueprints to business partners, leadership, and engineering teams, and collaborate to support product delivery.
• Define non-functional requirements, including performance, availability and failover, scalability, and security, and ensure they are incorporated into design and the final product.
• Guide engineering teams and other stakeholders on architectural best practices and standards.
• Oversee architectural roadmaps for the domain, balancing feature development, technical debt reduction, and strategic objectives against product requirements and long-term vision.
• Collaborate with Agile value stream execution teams to guide large solutions across multiple planning and execution cycles.
• Evaluate new technologies and vendors and guide proofs of concept and discovery work as needed.
• Provide guidance, direction, and mentorship to Architects, Senior Architects, and other collaborators.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior