Senior Solution Architect

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

As the nation's leading health solutions company, we reach millions of Americans through our local presence, digital channels and more than 300,000 purpose‑driven 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.

The Senior 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 within Data, Digital, Analytics, and Technology teams.

• End to End Solution Architecture: Drives solutions from cradle to grave for a given enterprise‑grade system or systems.
• Buy vs Build Analysis: 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: Contributor role in architecture design reviews within the Architecture community to drive modernization opportunities for the advancement of Aetna technology while keeping in mind the complexities of our IT landscape.
• Trusted advisor: Act as a trusted advisor to application, security, and platform teams, driving alignment on strategies and patterns.
• Application profile identification: Leverage technical expertise and domain knowledge to identify Aetna apps targeted for refactor and optimization for cloud.
• Proof of concept technology support: Contribute towards proofs‑of‑concept and technology deep‑dives specific to partner technologies.
• "Whatever it takes" attitude to help clear technical roadblocks: Advise and assist Application 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 Aetna applications.
• Tech Debt:
  Manage tech debt within a given portfolio and develop solution proposals to reduce them.

• Thought leadership and mentoring
• Excellent communication
• Deep collaboration skills. Ability to work as a team player seeking alignment and being able to influence outcomes through hands‑on demonstration of cloud capabilities.

• 5+ years of design/development experience
• 1+ years of hands‑on cloud implementation experience
• Technical subject matter expertise and domain knowledge
• Hands on understanding of cloud design and architecture for one or more public cloud service provider (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.) to deliver large‑scale distributed solutions across the full enterprise stack.
• Hands on technical skills in the following areas: application, data, integration and security architecture/design
• Hands on understanding of APIs (Rest, Graph
  
  QL, gRPC, etc.) and microservices‑based architecture is a must.
• Experience working with technologies that work as glue between modern applications and legacy infrastructure leveraging streaming platforms like Kafka.
• Ability to collaborate with Aetna Tech, Enterprise Architecture, Operations, and Security to deliver solutions.
• Experience in enterprise development tools and methodologies (XP, Agile) including Dev Sec Ops  and Data Ops
• Hands‑on technologists with coding skills and proficiency in modern technology stacks (Cloud, Dev Ops, Kafka, etc.)
• Understanding of both SQL and No
  
  SQL database technologies as well as Cloud database technologies.
• Demonstrable hands‑on experience is a must.
• Facilitates adoption of…