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Bring your heart to CVS Health. Every one of us at CVS Health shares a single, clear purpose: Bringing our heart to every moment of your health. This purpose guides our commitment to deliver enhanced human-centric health care for a rapidly changing world. Anchored in our brand — with heart at its center — our purpose sends a personal message that how we deliver our services is just as important as what we deliver. Our Heart At Work Behaviors™ support this purpose. We want everyone who works at CVS Health to feel empowered by the role they play in transforming our culture and accelerating our ability to innovate and deliver solutions to make health care more personal, convenient and affordable. *Position Summary* The Sr Solution Architect is accountable for the business solution designs for key strategic initiatives including (but not limited to) developing architectures that represent business, applications/integration, data, infrastructure, platform, and security architectures. In this role you will create solution architecture for key strategic initiatives including developing architectures and runways that represent business, application/integration, data, infrastructure, platform and security architectures, partnering with Digital, Data and Analytics, IT, EA, Infrastructure and Security teams. *Accountabilities include:* * *Cradle to Grave Solution Leadership:* Ultimate accountability and oversight for driving solutions from cradle to grave for a given domain by providing leadership and oversight to application architects and tech leads who are intimately familiar with the application architectures within their specific domain * *Buy vs Build Analysis:* In depth experience in performing Buy vs Build analysis based on the qualitative and quantitative analysis across the available options to provide a final recommendation based on the rationale * *Architecture and design reviews: *Play a key leadership role in architecture design reviews and identify gaps and recommend design changes. Actively lead and participate in the Architecture community to drive modernization opportunities for the advancement of PBM technology while keeping in mind the complexities of our IT landscape * *Develop Reference architecture and implementation:* Providing leadership, coaching and guidance to App Dev, Infrastructure and EA to develop/assemble PBM-applicable reference architectures for cloud-native applications to be applied to PBM apps targeted for refactor and optimization. * *Application profile identification:* Leverage significant technical expertise and domain knowledge to identify PBM apps targeted for refactor and optimization for cloud * *Proof of concept technology support:* Lead and drive proofs-of-concept and technology deep-dives specific to partner technologies * *“Roll up your sleeves and help clear technical roadblocks”:* Advise and assist App development teams with technical roadblocks such as performance challenges within a solution * *Cost optimization identification:* Engage with appropriate stakeholders to recommend or assess opportunities to drive cost efficiencies aimed at simplicity, configurability and eventual elimination of technical debt associated with PSS applications. * *Tech Debt:* *Manage tech debt *within a given portfolio and develop solution proposals to reduce them *Soft Skills: * * Ability to teach and upskill talent within the organization. * Thought leadership and mentoring * Excellent communication * Deep collaboration skills. Ability to work as a team player seeking alignment and able to influence outcomes through hands-on demonstration of cloud capabilities. *Required Qualifications* * 10+ years in design/development experience * 2+ years of hands-on cloud implementation experience * Best in class technical subject matter expertise and domain knowledge * SME level understanding of cloud design and architecture for one or more public cloud provider (Azure, AWS, preferably GCP) to deliver large-scale distributed solutions across the full enterprise stack * SME level technical skills in the following areas: application, data, integration and, security architecture/design * SME level understanding of APIs (Rest, GraphQL, and gRPC) and microservices-based architecture is a must * *Domain Driven Design:* Be able to map the domain scope to Bounded Contexts /Microservices * Experience working with technologies that work as glue between modern applications and legacy infrastructure leveraging streaming platforms like Apache Kafka * Ability to collaborate with Digital, IT, EA, Ops and Security to deliver solutions * Experience in enterprise development tools and methodologies (XP, Agile) including DevSecOps and DataOps * Hands-on technologists with coding skills and proficient in modern technology stacks (Cloud, DevOps, Kafka etc.) * Understanding of both SQL and NoSQL database technologies as well as Cloud database technologies. * Demonstrable hands-on experience is a must * Facilitates adoption of cloud-native/cloud-first architectures. * Experience integrating with legacy mainframe/mid-range AS400 applications including developing roadmaps for modernization of the applications *Preferred Qualifications* Experience in the PBM Industry is a PLUS. GCP/Azure Architect cloud certification is preferred. *Education* * Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related field required or equivelant experience * Masters Degree in Computer Science or related field preferred *Pay Range* The typical pay range for this role is: $124,372.50 - $247,200.00 This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time 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 short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above. This position also includes an award target in the company's equity award program. In addition to your compensation, enjoy the rewards of an organization that puts our heart into caring for our colleagues and our communities. The Company offers a full range of medical, dental, and vision benefits. Eligible employees may enroll in the Company's 401(k) retirement savings plan, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan is also available for eligible employees. The Company provides a fully-paid term life insurance plan to eligible employees, and short-term and long term disability benefits. CVS Health also offers numerous well-being programs, education assistance, free development courses, a CVS store discount, and discount programs with participating partners. As for time off, Company employees enjoy Paid Time Off (“PTO”) or vacation pay, as well as paid holidays throughout the calendar year. Number of paid holidays, sick time and other time off are provided consistent with relevant state law and Company policies. For more detailed information on available benefits, please visit [jobs.CVSHealth.com/benefits](https://jobs.cvshealth.com/benefits) CVS Health requires certain colleagues to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (including any booster shots if required), where allowable under the law, unless they are approved for a reasonable accommodation based on disability, medical condition, religious belief, or other legally recognized reasons that prevents them from being vaccinated. You are required to have received at least one COVID-19 shot prior to your first day of employment and to provide proof of your vaccination status or apply for a reasonable accommodation within the first 10 days of your employment. Please note that in some states and roles, you may be required to provide proof of full vaccination or an approved reasonable accommodation before you can begin to actively work. CVS Health is committed to recruiting, hiring, developing, advancing, and retaining individuals with disabilities. As such, we strive to provide equal access to the benefits and privileges of employment, including the provision of a reasonable accommodation to perform essential job functions. CVS Health can provide a request for a reasonable accommodation, including a qualified interpreter, written information in other formats, translation or other services through [ColleagueRelations@CVSHealth.com](mailto:ColleagueRelations@CVSHealth.com) If you have a speech or hearing disability, please call 7-1-1 to utilize Telecommunications Relay Services (TRS). We will make every effort to respond to your request within 48 business hours and do everything we can to work towards a solution.
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