Lead Director - Digital Engineering

Position Summary

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.

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
• 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

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.