Solutions Architect (GCP/AI Focused) - Junior & Senior Levels

The Principal Solution Architect is accountable for the business solution designs for key strategic initiatives, including developing architectures that represent business, applications/integration, data, infrastructure, platform, and security architectures.

In this role, you will act as the chief SME architect for key strategic initiatives within the PSS IT tower, leveraging significant enterprise experience in architecture and hands-on delivery of solutions to achieve business outcomes.

This includes having the strong ability to look around the corner at emerging technologies and advise senior leadership around the strategic technical vision for the tower. You will play a key role in furthering the modernization journey for Pharmacy Services Segment (PSS) IT in alignment with the Enterprise IT strategy.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years in design/development experience
• 4+ years of hands-on GCP implementation experience
• Best-in-class technical subject matter expertise and healthcare domain knowledge
• SME-level understanding of cloud design and architecture for one or more public cloud providers (GCP) to deliver large-scale distributed solutions across the full enterprise stack
• SME-level technical skills in the following areas:
  • Agentic AI
  • Application and integration architecture
  • Security and automation
  • Working knowledge of IT operations
• In-depth knowledge in Domain Driven Design
• Experience working with technologies that work as glue between modern apps and legacy infrastructure, leveraging streaming platforms like Apache Kafka
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional and technical teams to deliver solutions
• Experience in enterprise development tools and methodologies (XP, Agile), including DevSecOps and DataOps
• Hands-on technologists with coding skills and proficiency in modern technology stacks (Cloud, Agentic AI, DevSecOps, Kafka, etc.) to develop prototypes and POCs
• Ability to solve business problems using AI/ML (including Gen AI) and Robotics Process Automation
• Understanding of both SQL and NoSQL database technologies
• Demonstrable hands-on experience is a must
• Facilitates adoption of cloud-native/cloud-first architectures

Cradle to Grave Solution Leadership

• Ultimate accountability and oversight for driving solutions for key strategic initiatives from cradle to grave for a given proprietary domain
• Provide leadership and oversight to engineers and application architects who are intimately familiar with the application architectures within their specific domain
• Provide technology leadership, solution oversight, and guidance to ensure that the solution adheres to Pharmacy Services Architecture Guiding Principles and standards while maximizing reuse of technology assets

Buy vs Build Analysis

• In-depth experience in performing Buy vs Build analysis based on qualitative and quantitative analysis across available options
• Provide a final recommendation based on the rationale

Architecture and Design Reviews

• Play a key leadership role in architecture design reviews
• Identify gaps and recommend design changes
• Actively lead and participate in the Architecture community to drive modernization opportunities for the advancement of PBM technology while keeping in mind the complexities of the IT landscape

Develop Reference Architecture and Implementation

• Provide leadership, coaching, and guidance to App Dev, Technology Services and Solutions, and EA
• Develop/assemble architectures for cloud-native applications to be applied to apps targeted for refactor and optimization

Value Pool Rationalization

• Rationalize portfolio at the value pool level by working with value pool Leaders and the Portfolio Management Team

Proof of Concept Technology Support

• Lead and drive proofs-of-concept and technology deep-dives specific to partner technologies

Technical Roadblocks

• "Roll up your sleeves and help clear technical roadblocks"
• Advise and assist App Development teams with technical roadblocks such as performance challenges within a solution in key strategic initiatives

Cost Optimization

• Engage with appropriate stakeholders to recommend or assess opportunities to drive cost efficiencies aimed at simplicity, configurability, and eventual elimination of technical debt associated with Pharmacy Services applications

Soft Skills

• Ability to teach and upskill talent within the organization
• Thought leadership and mentoring
• Excellent communication
• Deep collaboration skills
• Ability to work as a team player, seek alignment, and influence business outcomes

Preferred

• GCP Architect cloud certification is preferred.