Lead Director - Digital Engineering

CVS Health is focused on building a more connected and compassionate health experience. The Lead Director - Digital Engineering will provide strategic leadership and oversee the digital engineering function, managing a team of engineers to ensure successful project delivery and alignment with business goals.

Responsibilities:

• Provides leadership and expertise in defining the technical architecture and design principles for digital solutions
• Oversees and manages digital engineering projects and programs, ensuring successful delivery within scope, budget, and timeline
• Collaborates with executive leadership to define the digital engineering strategy and roadmap aligned with the organization's goals
• Evaluates the relevance and potential impact of new technologies on the organization's digital engineering capabilities
• Establishes and maintains quality assurance processes, standards, and best practices within digital engineering
• Drives innovation initiatives within digital engineering, promoting a culture of creativity, experimentation, and learning
• Ensures adherence to coding standards, software development methodologies, and testing practices to deliver high-quality digital solutions
• Contributes to long-term planning, technology adoption strategies, and innovation initiatives to drive digital transformation
• Leads a team of digital engineers and technical professionals, and provides guidance, mentorship, and support to ensure their success and professional growth

Requirements:

• 10+ years of work experience in building large scale distributed systems
• 5+ years of experience in cloud‑native architectures (AWS, GCP, Azure), APIs, microservices, and distributed systems
• 5+ years of experience leading engineering teams (NodeJs, Postgresql, Kafka, GraphQL and Terraform etc.)
• Experience in leading search solutions – retrieval of information with high relevancy and low latency
• Ability to manage multiple competing priorities with minimal supervision
• Exceptional organizational, analytical, problem-solving, strategic thinking, and time management abilities
• Experience with optimization skills to improve performance, scalability, and usability of our applications
• Extensive knowledge of engineering processes, structural design, and system optimization
• Experience with agile development, SAFe Agile