CVS Health
Principal AI Architect
$144K–$288K
CO - Work from home · Remote · Principal · Full-time · Posted Sep 3, 2026
- Experience
- 12+ years in technology.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field or equivalent experience.
About the job
Sets AI architecture and technical standards across Aetna Technology, covering AI platforms, agentic systems, responsible AI, governance, and measurable business value.
What you'll do
- Own AI reference architectures and paved-road patterns for model serving, orchestration, retrieval, evaluation, and agent development.
- Embed safety, evaluation, and controls for regulated data into AI platforms and define cost and ROI measurement practices.
- Guide architecture governance, evaluate emerging AI technologies, and influence and coach technical teams without direct reports.
What they ask for
- 12+ years in technology, with deep hands-on AI/ML platform and solution architecture experience at Aetna Technology scale.
- Expert-level command of model serving, multi-model orchestration, retrieval, and evaluation on cloud platforms.
- Demonstrated ownership of AI reference architectures and paved-road patterns; hands-on agentic systems experience.
- Strong grounding in responsible AI, model evaluation, and guardrail design; track record driving outcomes through influence.
Nice to have
- Experience in healthcare, health insurance, or similarly regulated industries.
- Familiarity with FinOps, AI ROI and adoption metrics, or infrastructure-as-code and automated policy enforcement.
Pay
$144,200.00 - $288,400.00 USD base annual full-time salary or base hourly rate
Tools
AWS, GCP, Azure, API, MCP
AI focus
Architects generative and agentic AI platforms, model serving and orchestration, retrieval and evaluation, responsible-AI guardrails, and AI value measurement.
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