Principal Architect - Distributed Systems

Job Title: Principal Architect - Distributed Systems Job Location: Work at Home, Arizona, United States Job Location Type: Remote Job Contract Type: Full time Job Seniority Level: 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 The Distributed Systems Architect is responsible for defining, evolving, and owning the technical architecture of the Vulnerability Services Engine (VSE) platform, the enterprise‑wide vulnerability and exposure management platform at CVS Health. This role provides hands‑on architectural and engineering leadership across distributed systems, big‑data platforms, and application architecture , and serves as a technical owner of a mission‑critical, enterprise‑scale 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 architect‑engineer , 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 big‑data design for large‑scale telemetry inge