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Position Summary

The Distributed Systems Architect is responsible for defining, evolving, and owning the technical architecture of the Vulnerability Services Engine (VSE) platform, the enterprisewide vulnerability and exposure management platform at CVS Health.

This role provides handson architectural and engineering leadership across distributed systems, bigdata platforms, and application architecture, and serves as a technical owner of a missioncritical, enterprisescale system that ingests, processes, and analyzes vulnerability telemetry across the entire technology landscape.

This is not an advisory role. The successful candidate will operate as an architectengineer, contributing directly to design, implementation, performance optimization, and operational excellence as an integrated member of the delivery team.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical ownership and architectural leadership for the Vulnerability Services Engine (VSE) platform, including data ingestion, analytics, distributed processing, and application layers
• Own the technical specifications, data architecture, and evolution of vulnerability and exposure data products
• Design, document, and enforce:
  • System and solution architectures
  • Component and framework selection
  • Implementation and integration standards
• Lead distributed systems and bigdata design for largescale telemetry ingestion, processing, and analytics using platforms such as Apache Spark, Databricks, and Apache Kafka.
• Define and implement integration strategies for internal CVS Health platforms and external vendor systems across multicloud environments (Azure, GCP, AWS)
• Provide handson engineering leadership through code contributions, design reviews, and deep technical troubleshooting
• Establish and lead performance engineering and observability practices, including throughput optimization, scalability testing, and system tuning
• Serve as technical lead for vendor evaluations and proofsofconcept, assessing architectural fit, performance, and scalability
• Act as a senior technical advisor to Exposure Management and broader ISTS teams, influencing standards and platform direction through example and implementation

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience designing and implementing largescale distributed systems
• 5+ years of experience with bigdata platforms and highvolume data integration
• 5+ years of experience building web and servicebased applications
• Hands-on coding proficiency in at least one of Java, Python, Javascript
• 5+ years in senior technical leadership roles such as Architect, Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer, or equivalent, with demonstrated handson ownership
• Proven ability to operate in enterprisescale, missioncritical environments with strong performance and reliability requirements

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep, handson experience with Apache Spark, Databricks and modern dataprocessing frameworks
• Experience with highthroughput telemetry, logging, or analytics platforms
• Strong background in distributed systems performance engineering and observability
• Experience operating in security, vulnerability management, risk, or compliance domains
• Knowledge of Apache Arrow or similar data interchange frameworks
• Handson familiarity with contemporary AI/ML concepts and supporting tooling
• Expertlevel proficiency in Java, Python and ReactJs
• Advanced degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, or a related field

Education

• Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related field or equivalent experience

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

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.

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Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments.

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