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Ld Director - Software Engineering

CVS Health
Phoenix, USA
Full-time
Onsite
USD 144200-288400 yearly
Discovered 1 weeks ago
Software engineering leadershipTechnical strategy and architectureDistributed systemsCloud-native architectureBackend engineering at scaleGenerative AI and LLMs
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Position Summary

CVS Health is seeking a Lead Director of Software Engineering.

The role sets technical direction, drives delivery, and leads a large-scale engineering organization.

The position emphasizes production-grade generative AI, agentic workflows, and engineering automation.

Responsibilities

  • Drive technical strategy across an organization of approximately 50 to 150 or more engineers.
  • Set architectural standards and engineering excellence benchmarks.
  • Embed LLMs, generative AI, agentic workflows, and machine learning automation into engineering delivery.
  • Own delivery outcomes and maintain execution velocity.
  • Partner with product, data, and healthcare business leaders on engineering investments.
  • Challenge architectural debt and infeasible timelines while advocating for appropriate investment.

Required Qualifications

  • At least 10 years of progressive software engineering experience, including 5 or more years leading large-scale engineering organizations.
  • Experience building and scaling systems serving tens of thousands of users.
  • Hands-on expertise in distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and modern backend engineering at scale.
  • Production AI platform ownership covering deployment pipelines, vector databases, RAG, LLM orchestration, inference optimization, and responsible AI.
  • Experience migrating monoliths to microservices and modernizing legacy platforms.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Healthcare or highly regulated domain experience, including HIPAA, CMS compliance, or PHI data handling.
  • Platform engineering ownership involving internal developer platforms and engineering productivity tooling.

Pay Range

  • The stated pay range is $144,200 to $288,400.
  • The role may also be eligible for a bonus, commission or short-term incentive program, and an equity award target.

Benefits

  • Full-time benefits may include medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings, wellness programs, and other resources.

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