Medicare Lead Architect

We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time.

Position Summary

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. This role partners with business and technology stakeholders to translate complex business capabilities and technical requirements into pragmatic architecture solutions and modernization roadmaps. The Lead Architect provides technical leadership across initiatives, influences strategic technology decisions, and helps advance the organization’s architecture vision through the thoughtful adoption of cloud, data, integration, and emerging technologies. The role also contributes to the definition and evolution of Target State Architectures that improve agility, operational efficiency, interoperability, and the overall technology landscape.

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. Actively contribute to the Architecture community by developing reusable patterns, sharing best practices, and helping evolve architecture standards and Target State direction.

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. Demonstrated ability to influence technical decisions by clearly articulating architecture rationale, alternatives, benefits, trade-offs, and business impacts.
• 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.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and document architectural gaps, technical debt, risks, dependencies, and pain points and drive appropriate remediation strategies, standards, and best practices.
• Demonstrated ability to provide technical leadership across multiple teams and initiatives and influence outcomes in a complex, matrixed organization.
• Proven experience defining, documenting, and evolving Target State Architectures, architecture roadmaps, solution patterns, and transition strategies.
• Experience with modern cloud-based data, analytics, and integration platforms and their associated architecture patterns and services.
• Experience driving the adoption of cloud-native, cloud-first, API-led, event-driven, and modern application architectures.

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

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. 
 

Our people fuel our future. Our teams reflect the customers, patients, members and communities we serve and we are committed to fostering a workplace where every colleague feels valued and that they belong.

Great benefits for great people

We take pride in offering a comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits that reflects our commitment to our colleagues and their families.

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. The benefits for this position include medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other resources, based on eligibility.

Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments.

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 01/29/2027

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.