Lead Director - Software Development Engineering

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 Lead Director, Software Engineering will manage the software engineering and product management teams that develop and operate the systems and processes for PBM Rebates for CVS Health. The Lead Director will collaborate with the business stakeholders, vendors, and external partners to align the technology solutions with the strategic goals and objectives. The role requires a visionary leader with a strong technical background, exceptional management skills, and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross‑functional teams to oversee strategic initiatives and ensure successful execution of engineering programs.

• Provide direction and guidance to the technology teams that work on rebates software products and applications.
• Manage the delivery of IT initiatives, ensuring quality, design, timeliness, budget adherence, and meeting key OKRs and KPIs.
• Manage the IT budget, resources, and vendors delivering IT projects and services in alignment with OKRs.
• Establish and maintain effective communication and collaboration with business stakeholders, vendors, and external partners, meeting business requirements and expectations, and resolving issues or escalations.
• Drive innovation and continuous improvement solutions, leveraging best practices, industry trends, and emerging technologies.

• 10+ years of leadership experience in a matrixed organization spanning technical leadership and application development.
• 7+ years of leading full‑stack engineering teams or similar experience, including defining and leading the execution of long‑term technology strategy management and delivery.
• 5+ years of experience with Angular, Type Script, Spring Boot, Java, Kotlin, test frameworks (Jest, Karma, Jasmine, Selenium, Protractor), and CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Git Hub Actions, Concourse, CircleCI), Informatica and mainframes.
• 5+ years of experience leading deployment or modernization of applications to cloud platforms such as GCP, Azure, AWS, API design & development, and microservices architecture.
• 5+ years of fiscal management of capital and operating expense budgets.
• 7+ years of partnering across the organization and leading enterprise initiatives.

• 15+ progressive years in enterprise‑level software delivery in high‑impact business areas.
• Collaborate with engineering teams on setting technical direction and ensuring alignment with the technology strategy.
• Drive scale & reuse by leveraging platforms and capabilities.
• Technology research and innovation to develop long‑term roadmaps based on emerging trends in healthcare and digital technologies with a hands‑on, collaborative style of working.
• Strong fundamental understanding of data analytics platforms and data pipelines.
• The ability to inspire the organization to deliver quality software solutions.
• Lead, manage and grow multiple teams of product‑focused software engineers in modernizing core capabilities.
• Embrace and incubate emerging technology and open‑source products across all platforms.
• Work in a startup mindset to modernize existing tech stacks.
• Collaborate with internal teams to identify opportunities for automation and machine learning.
• Partner with architects, product owners, and software engineers to drive implementation of new solutions and applications.
• Work within and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions across mobile and web full‑stack tools and technologies.
• Lead efforts to deploy new and existing applications into cloud environments – AWS, GCP, and Azure.
• Conduct design and code review to ensure compliance with standards.
• Encourage innovation, implementation of cutting‑edge technologies, inclusion,…