Distinguished Engineer, Enterprise Solutions Engineering

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Connecticut.

📋 Description

• Oversee system design and architecture evaluations for enterprise applications, platforms, and shared services.

• Convert business requirements into scalable, secure, resilient, and maintainable end-to-end system designs.

• Assess logical architectures against CVS Health approved standards for ingress, secure hub routing, managed firewall traversal, API gateway application, identity, and private connectivity.

• Direct engineering teams on sanctioned hosting models across Kubernetes clusters, web applications, and shared cloud platforms.

• Evaluate application architectures against resiliency tier standards, such as RTO, RPO, replication, failover, AirGap backup, observability, and operational recovery readiness.

• Confirm the use of sanctioned cloud-native, managed, and SaaS services across Azure, GCP, AWS, and on-prem environments.

• Deliver architecture gap assessments, remediation strategies, and target-state recommendations for application teams and engineering leadership.

• Propel system engineering decisions across infrastructure, application, integration, data, network, identity, and observability domains.

• Develop and refine reference architectures, reusable engineering blueprints, and architecture review frameworks for the Solution Engineering team.

• Collaborate with Security, Compliance, Enterprise Architecture, and platform teams on standards adoption, exception management, and risk-informed design choices.

• Mentor engineers and architects in effective system design, resiliency engineering, and enterprise solution pattern implementation.

• Facilitate AI-driven automation of architecture reviews utilizing structured rules, multimodal inputs, and knowledge-based recommendations.

⛳️ Requirements

• 15+ years of experience in software engineering, system engineering, platform engineering, distributed systems, or enterprise architecture.

• Profound expertise in system design for large-scale enterprise applications, service-oriented architectures, and distributed platforms.

• Extensive experience in system engineering across infrastructure, networking, security, application, integration, and operations domains.

• Strong background in designing and assessing cloud-native and hybrid architectures across Azure, GCP, AWS, and/or on-prem environments.

• In-depth understanding of enterprise security patterns, including edge ingress, load balancing, API gateways, network segmentation, firewall controls, identity management, and private service connectivity.

• Solid knowledge of resiliency engineering, covering high availability, disaster recovery, backup and restore, replication, failover, and operational recovery planning.

• Experience with Kubernetes, web-hosted application platforms, APIs, managed data services, and service-to-service integration patterns.

• Capability to analyze ambiguous business and technical requirements, identify architectural risks, and deliver clear engineering guidance.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including executive-ready architecture assessments and technical recommendations.

• Experience in healthcare or another highly regulated enterprise setting.

• Familiarity with enterprise identity and authorization patterns such as Azure AD or Entra ID, managed identity, service principals, OAuth 2.0, and external identity providers.

• Knowledge of API management platforms such as Azure API Management, Apigee X, Kong, or similar gateway technologies.

• Experience with architecture governance, approved service catalogues, and cloud adoption guardrails.

• Experience in building or supporting AI-enabled engineering workflows, architecture assessment platforms, or recommendation automation capabilities.

• Understanding of vector databases, retrieval-augmented generation, and knowledge-driven advisory systems.

• Proficient with Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow, or similar enterprise workflow and documentation platforms.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.

• Paid time off.

• Retirement savings options.

• Wellness programs.

• Additional resources, based on eligibility.