Staff Software 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 We are looking for a Staff Software Architect to serve as a technical leader within the Clinical Insights Engine team at CVS Health. This is a senior individual contributor role with enterprise-wide influence. You will define the long-term software and systems architecture vision for the Clinical Insights Engine platform, drive cross-functional alignment on engineering strategy, and lead the design of mission-critical systems that power clinical AI models, ML inference pipelines, enterprise reporting, and large-scale healthcare analytics. You will operate as a thought leader and trusted authority — setting direction for architecture decisions across multiple engineering squads, ML teams, and product verticals. Responsibilities • Drive the end-to-end software architecture vision and roadmap for the Clinical Insights Engine platform across GCP and Azure environments • Serve as technical authority for system design and architecture decisions, providing guidance and governance across multiple engineering squads and product teams • Lead the design of highly scalable, fault-tolerant, and cost-optimized platforms supporting clinical AI/ML workloads — including LLM inference pipelines, document processing at scale, and real-time clinical data services • Define and govern ML architecture patterns — including feature stores, model registries, model serving infrastructure, experiment tracking, and MLOps pipelines — ensuring reproducibility, observability, and production-grade reliability • Lead architecture for LLM-integrated systems including prompt engineering frameworks, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, embedding stores, and clinical NLP processing • Define CIE-wide engineering standards, reference architectures, and platform patterns that promote consistency, reuse, and velocity across squads • Define enterprise software standards, architecture patterns, and reference architectures adopted across HCD and the broader CVS Health engineering community • Partner with CIE portfolio leads, product managers, and clinical stakeholders to align technical architecture with clinical program outcomes and business strategy • Represent CIE in enterprise architecture forums, HCD data governance councils, and cross-functional technical leadership groups within CVS Health • Champion engineering best practices across CIE squads: event-driven design, API-first development, data quality at source, and self-service platform patterns • Identify and proactively address architectural risk, technical debt, and data quality issues across CIE's clinical data platform • Mentor senior engineers and architects across CIE squads; build a culture of technical rigor, curiosity, and innovation • Ensure all CIE systems meet HIPAA compliance, enterprise security standards, and clinical data governance requirements   Required Qualifications • 8+ years of experience in software or data architecture, platform engineering, or a closely related field • 5+ years of experience designing enterprise-scale cloud systems in GCP and/or Azure in a production healthcare or regulated industry environment • Deep expertise in cloud-native services relevant to CIE's stack: BigQuery, Dataflow, Vertex AI, Cloud Run, GKE, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, or Azure equivalents • Demonstrated experience architecting clin