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.
CVS Health is seeking a Distinguished Engineer to join the Cloud Solution Engineering team and act as a senior technical leader across system architecture, enterprise engineering patterns, resiliency, and technology governance. This role will evaluate and shape end-to-end system designs so they align with CVS Health security, compliance, operational, and resiliency standards while also supporting business scalability and delivery outcomes. The engineer will partner closely with application teams, Enterprise Architecture, Security, Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, and Operations to review business requirements, logical architectures, network flows, platform dependencies, and solution implementation patterns.
Primary Responsibilities- Lead system design and architecture reviews for enterprise applications, platforms, and shared services.
- Translate business requirements into scalable, secure, resilient, and supportable end-to-end system designs.
- Evaluate logical architectures against CVS Health approved patterns for ingress, secure hub routing, managed firewall traversal, API gateway usage, identity, and private connectivity.
- Guide engineering teams on approved hosting models across Kubernetes clusters, web applications, and shared cloud platforms.
- Assess application architectures against resiliency tier expectations including RTO, RPO, replication, failover, AirGap backup, observability, and operational recovery readiness.
- Validate use of approved cloud-native, managed, and SaaS services across Azure, GCP, AWS, and on-prem environments.
- Provide architecture gap assessments, remediation plans, and target-state recommendations for application teams and engineering leadership.
- Drive system engineering decisions across infrastructure, application, integration, data, network, identity, and observability domains.
- Create and evolve reference architectures, reusable engineering blueprints, and architecture review frameworks for the Solution Engineering team.
- Partner with Security, Compliance, Enterprise Architecture, and platform teams on standards adoption, exception handling, and risk-based design decisions.
- Mentor engineers and architects in strong system design, resiliency engineering, and enterprise solution pattern usage.
- Support AI-enabled automation of architecture reviews using structured rules, multimodal inputs, and knowledge-based recommendations.
- 15+ years of experience in software engineering, system engineering, platform engineering, distributed systems, or enterprise architecture.
- Deep expertise in system design for large-scale enterprise applications, service-oriented systems, and distributed platforms.
- Deep expertise in system engineering across infrastructure, networking, security, application, integration, and operations domains.
- Strong experience designing and reviewing cloud-native and hybrid architectures across Azure, GCP, AWS, and/or on-prem environments.
- Strong understanding of enterprise security patterns including edge ingress, load balancing, API gateways, network segmentation, firewall controls, identity management and private service connectivity.
- Strong knowledge of resiliency engineering, including high availability, disaster recovery, backup and restore, replication, failover, and operational recovery planning.
- Experience with Kubernetes, web-hosted application platforms, APIs, managed data services, and service-to-service integration patterns.
- Ability to evaluate ambiguous business and technical requirements, identify architectural risk, and provide clear engineering guidance.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including executive-ready architecture assessments and technical recommendations.
- Experience in healthcare or another highly regulated enterprise environment.
- Experience with enterprise identity and authorization patterns such as Azure AD or Entra ID, managed identity, service principals, OAuth 2.0, and external identity providers.
- Experience with API management platforms such as Azure API Management, Apigee X, Kong, or comparable gateway technologies.
- Experience with architecture governance, approved service catalogues, and cloud adoption guardrails.
- Experience building or supporting AI-enabled engineering workflows, architecture assessment platforms, or recommendation automation capabilities.
- Familiarity with vector databases, retrieval-augmented generation, and knowledge-driven advisory systems.
- Experience with Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow, or similar enterprise workflow and documentation platforms.
Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field.
Pay Range
The typical pay range for this role is:
$175,100.00 - $334,750.00
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.
Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments.
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.
Skills Required
- 15+ years of experience in software engineering, system engineering, platform engineering, distributed systems, or enterprise architecture
- Deep expertise in system design for large-scale enterprise applications
- Strong experience designing cloud-native and hybrid architectures across Azure, GCP, AWS, or on-prem environments
- Strong understanding of enterprise security patterns including API gateways and identity management
- Experience with Kubernetes and APIs
CVS Health Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about CVS Health and has not been reviewed or approved by CVS Health.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is positioned as comprehensive for benefits-eligible colleagues, including medical, dental, and vision with free preventive care and access to virtual care and select no-cost MinuteClinic services. Mental health support is also highlighted with no-cost confidential counseling sessions per issue.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits include a 401(k) with a dollar-for-dollar match up to 5% after meeting service and hours requirements. Ownership programs are also offered through an employee stock purchase plan with a stated purchase discount.
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Pay Growth & Progression — A companywide minimum wage floor establishes a baseline that is framed as a positive starting point in some roles and markets. Unionized or high-cost areas are described as having clearer wage scales and step-ups that can materially lift pay over time.
CVS Health Insights
What We Do
CVS Health is the leading health solutions company that delivers care in ways no one else can. We reach people in more ways and improve the health of communities across America through our local presence, digital channels and our nearly 300,000 dedicated colleagues – including more than 40,000 physicians, pharmacists, nurses and nurse practitioners. Wherever and whenever people need us, we help them with their health – whether that’s managing chronic diseases, staying compliant with their medications, or accessing affordable health and wellness services in the most convenient ways. We help people navigate the health care system – and their personal health care – by improving access, lowering costs and being a trusted partner for every meaningful moment of health. And we do it all with heart, each and every day.
