Lead Director, AI-Driven Software Systems

CVS Health

Dover (DE)

On-site

USD 144,000 - 288,000

Full time

5 days ago
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Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Lead Director of Software Engineering who thinks like a founder, executes like a principal engineer, and leads at the highest levels of the industry. You will set the bar and raise it, guiding a multi-team engineering organization of 50-150+ engineers and shaping architectural standards.

You will drive AI-enabled platforms, implement 10x automation, and translate business strategy into engineering bets, owning delivery velocity and technical leadership across product,

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of progressive software engineering experience, including 5+ years leading large- scale engineering organizations.
  • Deep, hands-on technical foundation in distributed systems and cloud-native architectures.
  • Proven AI platform ownership with production AI systems deployment and ML orchestration.

Responsibilities

  • Drive technical strategy across a multi-team engineering organization (50-150+ engineers).
  • Embed AI/ML-powered automation into the engineering lifecycle as production-grade differentiators.
  • Own delivery at velocity and be accountable for outcomes, not roadmaps.
  • Partner with Product owners, Data Engineers, and health care leaders to translate business strategy into engineering bets.
  • Be the technical voice, addressing architectural debt and advocating for the right investments.

Skills

Leadership at scale
Distributed systems
AI platform ownership
Engineering transformation

Job description

CVS Health is seeking a Lead Director of Software Engineering who thinks like a founder, executes like a principal engineer, and leads at the highest levels of the industry. You will set the bar and raise it, guiding a multi-team engineering organization of 50-150+ engineers and shaping architectural standards.

You will drive AI-enabled platforms, implement 10x automation, and translate business strategy into engineering bets, owning delivery velocity and technical leadership across product,

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