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:
As a Lead Director - Digital Engineering you will provide strategic leadership and oversee the digital engineering function, AetnaHealth Pharmacy, IDCards, SecureChat and Claims etc. capabilities, which enables members to manage health benefits based on their personal preferences.
You will manage a team of engineers, defines technical strategies and roadmaps, ensures successful project delivery, and fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration. Coordinates with stakeholders, allocates resources, drives technical excellence, and creates alignment between business goals and technical solutions to ensure continuous improvement of digital engineering capabilities within the organization.
What you will do:
- 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
Required Qualifications:
- 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.)
Preferred Qualifications:
- 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
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience (HS diploma + 4 years relevant experience)
Pay Range
The typical pay range for this role is:
$144,200.00 - $288,400.00
This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors. This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above. This position also includes an award target in the company’s equity award program.
Our people fuel our future. Our teams reflect the customers, patients, members and communities we serve and we are committed to fostering a workplace where every colleague feels valued and that they belong.
Great benefits for great people
We take pride in offering a comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits that reflects our commitment to our colleagues and their families.
Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments.
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.
Skills Required
- 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)
CVS Health Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about CVS Health and has not been reviewed or approved by CVS Health.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is positioned as comprehensive for benefits-eligible colleagues, including medical, dental, and vision with free preventive care and access to virtual care and select no-cost MinuteClinic services. Mental health support is also highlighted with no-cost confidential counseling sessions per issue.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits include a 401(k) with a dollar-for-dollar match up to 5% after meeting service and hours requirements. Ownership programs are also offered through an employee stock purchase plan with a stated purchase discount.
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Pay Growth & Progression — A companywide minimum wage floor establishes a baseline that is framed as a positive starting point in some roles and markets. Unionized or high-cost areas are described as having clearer wage scales and step-ups that can materially lift pay over time.
CVS Health Insights
What We Do
CVS Health is the leading health solutions company that delivers care in ways no one else can. We reach people in more ways and improve the health of communities across America through our local presence, digital channels and our nearly 300,000 dedicated colleagues – including more than 40,000 physicians, pharmacists, nurses and nurse practitioners. Wherever and whenever people need us, we help them with their health – whether that’s managing chronic diseases, staying compliant with their medications, or accessing affordable health and wellness services in the most convenient ways. We help people navigate the health care system – and their personal health care – by improving access, lowering costs and being a trusted partner for every meaningful moment of health. And we do it all with heart, each and every day.
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