Job Description
This role will work closely with the CVS.com, Marketing, Specialty and Rx Operations, Caremark.com, Specialty business and technical teams to deliver functionality for the CVS.com, Caremark.com, specialty.com site. Act as architect for medium to large projects and drive the design do solutions for the CVS.com, caremark.com, specialty business that are cloud native, scalable, maintainable and reliable. Proactively identify and evaluate emerging technologies and tools. Work with other senior architects to create the high-level software designs and technical specifications. Manage the evolution of architectural roadmaps for your domain, showing how new features are released or updated, with an eye on paying down technical debt with minimal disruption.
Evaluate package solutions and participate in selection of solutions to meet business needs and architecture standards. Provide guidance to developers and other stakeholders on architectural best practices, guidelines, and standards. Evangelize, mentor, and coach all on the same.
Participate in peer reviews on specifications, design and code. Work with development teams to resolve development and implementation issues. Work closely with the CVS Online business team and Business Analysts to ensure that requirements are fully understood and documented in order to deliver quality design deliverables. Lead Proof-Of-Concepts and Spike Solutions, and provide "Reference Architectures" and "Baseline Implementations" when appropriate. Work closely with QA and Operations to ensure smooth QA and deployment of applications. Work with project teams to plan integration and implementation strategies. Communicate very technical material to a non-technical business audience. Provide guidance, direction and mentorship to Architects.
Provide guidance to developers and other stakeholders regarding the design of server applications and UI clients, encompassing APIs and frameworks, micro-services, containers, databases, cloud infrastructures, and cloud services, etc.
Responsible for implementation of large systems that utilize MicroServices , cloud technologies. Apply knowledge of designing n-tier OO system architecture using EJB technologies, MicroServices and cloud technologies. Create architecture and design patterns in Java, cloud & Microservices. Select, design and implement Microservices, Content management and Cloud Native systems.
Ensure all Non-Functional Requirements (e.g. performance, availability and fail-over, scalability, security, etc.) are properly articulated, and work with all parties to guarantee that the software products that are delivered meet these objectives. Drive buy vs build evaluations, including consideration of OSS.
Participates in high-level estimation Work closely with other architects to create and implement new system designs as well as make improvements to existing systems. Serve as subject matter expert working with business stakeholders, architecting use cases relevant to Digital Pharmacy across multiple enterprise systems. Collaborate with technical experts to develop solution during the design phase, enabling the implementation of final solutions. Ensuring the technical integrity, consistency and adherence to architectural standards. Implementation of architectural artifacts depicting the solution consisting of all necessary integrations and technical components.
Required Qualifications• 7-10+ years of experience as a software developer/architect.• . Experience and proficiency with modern languages, frameworks, and technologies such as Java, Python, Node.js, messaging queuing infrastructures, as well as AWS or GCP cloud infrastructure and services.• Experience working with GCP• Experience in VPC concepts, VPC peering• Experience working on migrations of On-prem to Cloud• Experience with the design and development of complex systems; employs a disciplined and rigorous approach• Adept at requirements analysis, estimation, systems and application design, and testing• Experience designing RESTful APIs that facilitate a superior UX or simplify systems integration.• Familiarity with popular Design Patterns catalogues• Experience with RDBMS and/or NoSQL databases. Understands the benefits and trade-offs of both. Familiar with normalization and denormalization, sharding, and other data-centric patterns• Experience with distributed computing architectures, including race conditions, parallelism, and concurrency control• Experience with micro-services• Experience architecting solutions for AWS or Google clouds• Experience working in BFF and design systems• Experience architecting web & mobile applications• Excellent collaboration, influencing, evangelization, negotiation, coaching, mentoring, and coalition-building skills. Ability to work with persons in all job functions (e.g. product, UX, developers, QA, DevOps).• Excellent verbal and written communications• Ability to manage multiple competing priorities with minimal supervision. Self-directed• A great team player, with demonstrable experience delivering superior software products via agile methodologies• Experience on an Agile team
COVID Requirements
COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement
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.
Preferred Qualifications• A proven track record working as part of a team on large architectural projects• Experience with distributed caching solutions; understands the factors that enable effective caching• Exposure to Big-Data and/or Machine Learning• Exposure to CI/CD and DevOps• Experience with SAFe Software Development Principles
Education
Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or related field required.
Business Overview
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.
We strive to promote and sustain a culture of diversity, inclusion and belonging every day.
CVS Health is an affirmative action employer, and is an equal opportunity employer, as are the physician-owned businesses for which CVS Health provides management services. We do not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, promotion, or any other personnel action based on race, ethnicity, color, national origin, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.