Lead Solution Architect - Marketing Communications

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. Join a team of architects driving the modernization of CVS Health’s enterprise customer communications ecosystem. This role will help define and enable the platforms that support high-volume outbound communications across CVS Health businesses, connecting marketing, customer data, consent, identity, integration, and cloud capabilities. We are looking for a highly technical architect who can operate across both enterprise and solution architecture. You will establish the target-state architecture and platform roadmap while also working closely with engineering teams to design integrations, data flows, APIs, and enabling infrastructure. The ideal candidate brings strong software and platform architecture experience, understands the marketing communications domain, and can architect solutions across Adobe, Salesforce, consent management, and enterprise messaging capabilities. This is not a marketing operations, campaign management, SEO, or digital advertising role. It is a technology architecture position focused on building scalable, connected, and compliant customer communication platforms. This role can work remotely from anywhere in the continental USA. Key Responsibilities Enterprise Architecture Strategy Define the target-state architecture and multi-year roadmap for CVS Health’s customer communications and marketing technology ecosystem, connecting capabilities across Caremark, Aetna, Specialty, and other CVS Health business units. Solution and Platform Architecture Architect scalable platforms and solutions across customer communications, campaign and journey management, personalization, customer data, consent, preferences, and message archival capabilities. Platform Modernization Help guide the evolution of an ecosystem currently centered on Adobe technologies while evaluating and enabling future capabilities across Adobe, Salesforce, and other strategic platforms. Integration Architecture Design API-led, event-driven, and data-driven integrations connecting customer communication platforms with enterprise data, identity, cloud, and business applications. Technical Solution Design Translate business capabilities into implementable technical designs, including integration logic, APIs, data elements, data relationships, database structures, and system dependencies. Messaging Enablement Architect the capabilities required to enable and expand outbound communication channels, including email, SMS, RCS, push notifications, and emerging customer engagement channels. Consent and Compliance Architecture Embed customer consent, communication preferences, regulatory controls, suppression requirements, and message archival capabilities into the platform architecture. Partner with Security, Privacy, Legal, Data, and Engineering teams to ensure communications are appropriately governed and compliant. Data Architecture Design and evaluate customer data flows, consent and preference models, identity relationships, message records, and high-volume data-processing patterns supporting enterprise customer communications. Cloud and Infrastructure Architecture Guide the design of applications, integrations, and supporting infrastructure within GCP and the broader enterprise technology ecosystem. Vendor and Build-vs-Buy Strategy Lead technical vendor assessments, proofs of concept, RFP support, and