Director of Applications Engineering & DevSecOps (MEA)

Cigna Group; Dubai; On-site; AED 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Cigna Healthcare, a division of The Cigna Group, seeks a technology leadership executive to drive agile, DevSecOps, and product-centric delivery across the MEA region. You will lead multi-country teams, shaping the application portfolio to meet regulatory and business needs.

The role requires deep expertise in enterprise technology, cybersecurity, and modern engineering, with strong stakeholder influence in a matrix organization.

Qualifications

• 10 years of technology leadership experience with regional and global teams.
• Proven ability to execute regional technology strategies, roadmaps and outcomes.
• Broad experience in architecture, engineering delivery, operations, risk & cybersecurity, AI.
• Strong capability to influence senior stakeholders across business and tech.

Responsibilities

• Lead technology strategy development across MEA with global alignment.
• Govern delivery, application support, and operations for scalable, resilient solutions.
• Drive DevSecOps, agile product delivery, and cross-portfolio collaboration.
• Oversee budgets, resources and vendor investments to maximize value.

Skills

Tech leadership

Agile/SAFe

Stakeholder management

Matrix leadership

Job description

Cigna Healthcare, a division of The Cigna Group, seeks a technology leadership executive to drive agile, DevSecOps, and product-centric delivery across the MEA region. You will lead multi-country teams, shaping the application portfolio to meet regulatory and business needs.

The role requires deep expertise in enterprise technology, cybersecurity, and modern engineering, with strong stakeholder influence in a matrix organization.