Executive Director, Platform Engineering- Health Care Delivery

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.

The Executive Director of Platform Engineering is the senior-most leader responsible for the strategy, execution, and organizational health of the Platform Engineering function within the Healthcare Delivery (HCD) portfolio. This role leads a capability-centered organization spanning four teams:
Data & Performance, Development Enablement & Acceleration, Infrastructure Enablement, and Observability & Reliability, as well as a Distinguished Engineer and Principal Engineer cohort that serves as the technical backbone of the org.

This role is accountable for the reliability, security, cost-efficiency, and developer experience of a complex, multi-cloud environment (AWS, Azure, GCP) supporting Signify Health, Oak Street Health, and Rubicon

MD. It carries direct ownership of the platform engineering budget, strategic vendor relationships, and the technical roadmap across all capability areas, including automation and AI-enabled delivery, in a HIPAA-regulated environment with enterprise-level visibility into CVS Health.

This is a player-coach role: you set the vision, remove organizational obstacles, and partner with senior engineering and product leadership across the portfolio. The org is actively consolidating multiple infrastructure functions into a unified software engineering capability center, and this leader will drive that transition.

• Define and own a multi-year platform strategy aligned to HCD's engineering, product, and business objectives across all three brands.
• Represent HCD Platform Engineering in enterprise-wide architecture and governance forums, including strategic partnerships with CVS enterprise teams, and contribute at the senior leadership team level to portfolio-wide decisions on technology adoption, architecture, and investment.
• Drive pragmatic adoption of AI-assisted development tooling and agentic infrastructure workflows across the HCD portfolio.
• Build the foundational enablement layer, including environmental context, policy grounding, and secure guardrails, that allows engineering teams to operate agentic workflows safely and correctly in a regulated, multi-cloud environment.

• Lead, develop, and retain a multi-layer organization of people leaders and senior technical contributors.
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, psychological safety, and pragmatic delivery, where teams are empowered to make decisions and accountable for outcomes.
• Own workforce planning, headcount, and org design; coach leaders across both people management and technical tracks and model leadership grounded in technical credibility and organizational empathy.

• Own the platform engineering roadmap: prioritization, sequencing, and delivery quality across all capability teams.
• Champion automation across platform operations, from infrastructure provisioning and pipeline execution to self-service developer workflows, reducing toil and accelerating delivery.
• Establish and enforce operational standards, including SLOs, incident management, on‑call health, and blameless post‑mortems.
• Own the platform engineering budget, including headcount, tooling, and cloud cost accountability, and drive Fin Ops discipline in partnership with Finance.
• Manage strategic vendor relationships, including contract negotiations, performance accountability, and build‑vs‑buy decisions.
• Oversee the security and compliance posture of all platform infrastructure in alignment with HIPAA, enterprise security policies, and CVS‑level regulatory requirements.

• Serve as the primary platform engineering interface to senior Engineering, Product, Security, Finance, and vendor stakeholders across HCD.
• Partner…