Lead Director, Digital Engineering

At CVS Health, we're building a world of health around every consumer and surrounding ourselves with dedicated colleagues who are passionate about transforming health care.As the nation's leading health solutions company, we reach millions of Americans through our local presence, digital channels and more than 300,000 purpose-driven colleagues - caring for people where, when and how they choose in a way that is uniquely more connected, more convenient and more compassionate. And we do it all with heart, each and every day.Bring your heart to CVS Health. Every one of us at CVS Health shares a single, clear purpose: Bringing our heart to every moment of your health. This purpose guides our commitment to deliver enhanced human-centric health care for a rapidly changing world. Anchored in our brand - with heart at its center - our purpose

sends a personal message that how we deliver our services is just as important as what we deliver.Our Heart At Work Behaviors™ support this purpose. We want everyone who works at CVS Health to feel empowered by the role they play in transforming our culture and accelerating our ability to innovate and deliver solutions to make health care more personal, convenient and affordable.Position Summary:

Provides strategic leadership and oversees the digital engineering function, AetnaHealth FindCare, which enables members to search and access care options based on their personal preferences. Manages 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 transforming the FindCare search experience for all AetnaHealth members.
• Oversees and manages FindCare search engineering projects and programs, ensuring successful delivery within scope, budget, and timeline.
• Collaborates with executive leadership to define the FindCare engineering strategy and roadmap aligned with the organization's goals.
• Evaluates and leverages AI technologies including LLMs, RAG and agentic solutions etc. to enhance the FindCare search experiences.
• Establishes and maintains quality assurance processes, standards, and best practices within FindCare engineering.
• Drives innovation initiatives within AetnaHealth engineering, promoting a culture of creativity, experimentation, and learning.
• Ensures adherence to coding standards, software development methodologies, and testing practices to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Contributes to long-term planning, technology adoption strategies, and innovation initiatives to drive transformation.
• Leads a team of AetnaHealth engineers and technical professionals, and provides guidance, mentorship, and support to ensure their success and professional growth.

• 10+ years of work experience in building large scale distributed systems.
• 5+ years of experience in leading search solutions - retrieval of information with high relevancy and low latency.
• Adept at execution and delivery (planning, delivering, and supporting) skills
• Adept at business intelligence
• Adept at collaboration and teamwork
• Mastery of problem solving and decision-making skills
• Mastery of growth mindset (agility and developing yourself and others) skills

• Ability to manage multiple competing priorities with minimal supervision. Self-directed
• 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

• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent experience (HS diploma + 4 years relevant experience)

• Affordable medical plan options, a 401(k) plan (including matching company contributions), and an employee stock purchase plan.
• No-cost programs for all colleagues including wellness screenings, tobacco cessation and weight management programs, confidential counseling and financial coaching.
• Benefit solutions that address the different needs and preferences of our colleagues including paid time off, flexible work schedules, family leave, dependent care resources, colleague assistance programs, tuition assistance, retiree medical access and many other benefits depending on eligibility.