AVP, Digital Engineering

9025 CVS Shared Services Resources LLC; Woonsocket (RI); On-site; USD 185,000 - 376,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus program

Equity program

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking an AVP of Digital Engineering to shape a flagship digital health platform from the executive seat, overseeing Health100 and guiding AI-enabled product delivery. You will lead internal engineering teams, senior leaders, and strategic vendors in a regulated environment to build scalable, secure consumer-facing solutions.

The role requires deep technical credibility, executive presence, and a track record delivering enterprise-scale health tech with a focus on accessibility

Qualifications

• 15+ years of software engineering experience, with 5+ years in senior leadership.
• Proven track record delivering full-stack digital products at scale, ideally in health or regulated domains.
• Experience leading large-scale, globally distributed teams and ensuring production stability.
• Strong full-stack fluency across frontend (Flutter/React/mobile) and backend (APIs, microservices) and data layers.
• Hands-on agile delivery experience with short iterations, pilots, and data-informed product development.
• Experience managing financials and cost-center expenses at scale.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end engineering delivery for Health100's digital health solutions — web, mobile, and backend services.
• Drive an agile, iterative delivery model with short release cycles, tight feedback loops, and a pilot-first mindset.
• Establish and maintain engineering standards for code quality, architecture, security, and scalability.
• Define and evolve the full-stack architecture for Health100 — APIs, data pipelines, and AI integration.
• Partner with product and AI leads to shape feasibility and sequencing of the roadmap, including AI health assistant capabilities.
• Ensure HIPAA compliance, PHI handling, and security posture are embedded in the engineering process.

Job description

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.

Health100 is a high-impact, AI-native health technology platform designed to redefine how consumers navigate care. By connecting pharmacies, providers, insurers, PBMs, and digital health solutions in one intelligent ecosystem, Health100 gives members a simpler, more personalized way to manage their health while helping improve outcomes at enterprise scale.

As AVP of Digital Engineering, you will have the opportunity to shape a flagship digital health platform from the executive seat—setting the engineering vision, building scalable capabilities, and influencing how next-generation AI and digital experiences transform health care. This is a highly visible executive leadership role for a builder, strategist, and technology leader who wants to make a meaningful mark in digital health.

You will lead internal engineering teams, senior technical leaders, and strategic vendor partners in delivering modern, secure, consumer-facing solutions in a complex regulated environment. The role offers broad enterprise exposure, direct partnership with product, AI, business, and senior leadership stakeholders, and the opportunity to create a culture of engineering excellence, speed, accountability, and customer-centered innovation.

The ideal leader brings deep technical credibility, strong executive presence, and the ability to translate bold digital ambition into reliable, scalable platforms that improve the health experience for millions of people.

Why this role matters

This is a rare opportunity to lead at the intersection of enterprise-scale engineering, consumer health transformation, and applied AI—building technology that is not only modern and scalable, but deeply connected to improving access, personalization, and outcomes for the people CVS Health serves.

Primary Responsibilities

• Engineering Leadership & Delivery Own end-to-end engineering delivery for Health100's digital health solutions — web, mobile, and backend services.
• Drive an agile, iterative delivery model with short release cycles, tight feedback loops, and a pilot-first mindset.
• Establish and maintain engineering standards for code quality, architecture, security, and scalability across the platform.
• Define and evolve the full-stack architecture for Health100 — including member-facing app layers, AI/ML integration, APIs, and data pipelines.
• Partner with product and AI leads to shape technical feasibility and sequencing of the roadmap, including AI health assistant capabilities.
• Ensure HIPAA compliance, PHI handling, and security posture are embedded in the engineering process — not bolted on.

Organizational Leadership and Talent Strategy

• Lead a mixed team of internal engineers (ICs), engineer leaders and external development vendors, holding all parties to unified delivery and quality standards.
• Evaluate, onboard, and manage software development partners — assessing them as strategic partners, not staff augmentation.
• Lead, mentor, and grow engineering managers and senior engineers, owning hiring, performance management, career development, succession planning, and a culture of accountability and high performance.
• Create a culture of ownership, technical excellence, and proactive risk identification.

Cross-Functional & Executive Engagement

• Serve as the senior engineering voice in product, strategy, and leadership forums — translating technical complexity into business clarity.
• Own engineering metrics and reporting for Health100 — including delivery velocity, platform reliability, AI performance, and technical health.
• Represent engineering in vendor negotiations, partner evaluations, and external technical due diligence.

Required Qualifications

• 15+ years of software engineering experience, with 5+ years in senior engineering leadership roles
• Proven track record delivering full-stack digital products at scale — ideally in health, benefits, insurance, or another regulated domain.
• Deep experience leading large-scale, globally distributed teams, and ensuring the health and stability of production operations.
• Strong full-stack fluency — you can engage meaningfully in architecture decisions across frontend (Flutter/React/mobile), backend (APIs, microservices), and data layers.
• Hands-on experience in agile delivery environments with short iteration cycles, pilot launches, and data-informed product development.
• Experience in financial management of large corporate portfolios and cost center expenses.
• Technical expertise in triaging, understanding, and solving complex challenges across various technology stacks, enterprise integrations, and vendor platforms.
• Executive-level communication and influence skills, with hands‑on or applied experience delivering AI-enabled or generative AI–integrated software solutions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building member- or patient-facing health applications; familiarity with FHIR, HL7, or health data standards.
• Exposure to AI/ML integration in production products — particularly conversational AI or health AI assistants.
• Experience in a large enterprise health system, payor, or health tech company (payer-side or provider-side).
• Experience leading digital enablement and transformative initiatives.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is: $185,400.00 - $375,950.00 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.

Great benefits for great people

We take pride in offering a comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits that reflects our commitment to our colleagues and their families. This full‑time position is eligible for a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial well‑being of colleagues and their families. The benefits for this position include medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other resources, based on eligibility. Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments.

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 12/31/2026

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.

Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people.

Our employees are self-disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area.