Lead Solution Architect

Position Summary

The Lead Solution Architect is responsible for designing business solutions for key strategic initiatives, focusing on modern event-driven architectures with a strong emphasis on cloud technologies, contemporary system designs, and emerging AI and agentic technologies. In this role, you will collaborate across multiple teams to design comprehensive solution architectures that integrate various components, including business applications, data, infrastructure, platform, and security. Your efforts will involve working closely with teams from Digital, Data and Analytics, IT, Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure, and Security to foster a culture of problem-solving and innovation.

This position also involves providing leadership, coaching, and strategic guidance to application development teams while developing reference architectures for cloud-native applications and new architectural frameworks that integrate emerging AI and agentic technologies. These architectures will play a key role in developing new capabilities as well as enhancing and optimizing existing systems. The ideal candidate will be a hands-on leader who actively engages with the team to address technical challenges and remove roadblocks.

*This position is open to multiple CVS locations for hybrid or fully remote anywhere in the USA.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of design and development experience in enterprise-level solutions.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with cloud implementations, particularly in modern event-driven architectures.
• Expertise in technical subject matter and domain knowledge, with a focus on cloud technologies and emerging AI and agentic technologies.
• Strong understanding of cloud design and architecture for one or more public cloud providers, with a preference for AWS, to deliver large-scale distributed solutions across the entire enterprise stack.
• Strong technical skills in application, data, integration, and security architecture/design.
• Proficient understanding of APIs (REST, GraphQL, and gRPC) and microservices-based architecture.
• Experience with Domain-Driven Design, including the ability to map domain scope to Bounded Contexts and Microservices.
• Familiarity with technologies that bridge modern applications and legacy infrastructure, use streaming platforms like Apache Kafka.
• Experience with enterprise development tools and methodologies (XP, Agile), including DevSecOps and DataOps.
• Hands-on technologist with coding skills and proficiency 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 essential.
• Ability to facilitate the adoption of cloud-native/cloud-first architectures.

Preferred Qualifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.