Lead Director - Digital Engineering

CVS Health; Kansas; Híbrido; USD 144.000 - 288.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Paid time off

Retirement options

Wellness programs

Descripción de la vacante

CVS Health Digital seeks a Lead Director - Digital Engineering to own customer identity platforms and services, steering strategy, modernization, delivery, and operations. You will lead teams across authentication, profile management, and integrations, shaping scalable, secure experiences for millions of customers across CVS Health ecosystems.

The role partners with Product, Security, Architecture, and Business teams to advance modernization, improve security, and drive enterprise growth.

Formación

• 10+ years in software or platform engineering, CIAM or related tech fields.
• 7+ years in people leadership including engineering managers.
• Experience defining technology strategy and multi-year modernization plans.
• 5+ years driving cloud-native transformations and API-first architectures.
• Strong CIAM, authentication, authorization, profile services knowledge.
• Experience with budgets, vendor partnerships and investments.

Responsabilidades

• Lead multi-team engineering org for authentication, profile management and identity integrations.
• Advise on scalable cloud-native, API-first architecture and secure user experiences.
• Drive AI-enabled transformations and execution strategies in identity.
• Identify and manage risks; coordinate cross-workstream dependencies.
• Deliver End-to-End program plans and timely status reporting.
• Report program status to stakeholders and drive metrics for success.
• Foster relationships with business, product, tech and vendors to enable roadmap.

Conocimientos

CIAM

Cloud-native

API-first

Leadership

Security

Educación

Bachelor's degree

Herramientas

Okta

Auth0

Ping Identity

ForgeRock

Microsoft Entra

Descripción del empleo

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.

POSITION SUMMARY

CVS Health Digital is looking for hands-on, passionate people who want to join a high energy and growing team to make a difference in customers' lives and who want to be on the forefront of digital innovation that aims to reinvent what a pharmacy and a health care company can be in the digital world. Currently we are hiring a Lead Director - Digital Engineering who will focuses within our Customer Identity area. This Lead Director will be accountable for the strategy, modernization, delivery, and operation of CVS Health's customer identity platforms and services. This people leader will oversee customer identity capabilities serving millions of customers across Health100, Caremark, Specialty, Retail, Health Services, and emerging digital experiences.

The Lead Director - Digital Engineering will partner across Product, Security, Architecture, and Business teams to advance modernization, strengthen security, improve operational excellence, and deliver identity solutions that support enterprise growth and customer engagement. This role is accountable for product delivery, platform availability, security, modernization, organizational development, and requires a track record of building high-performing teams and delivering business outcomes at scale.

Expectations For The Role

• Lead a multi-team engineering organization responsible for authentication services, profile management, identity integrations, and platform operations
• Drive the evolution of identity capabilities toward a scalable, cloud-native, API-first architecture while ensuring secure, seamless, and reliable customer experiences
• Drive AI enabled transformations and execution strategies
• Identify and manage risks, engage teams to drive towards resolution
• Identify and manage cross-workstream technical dependencies
• End-to-End Program Plan and timely tracking and reporting
• Manage program level status reporting and communication to stakeholders
• Define, measure and track metrics and KPIS to measure success and Business Outcomes for the FS merchandizing portfolio
• Build and cultivate strong relationships with Business, Product and Technology partners and vendors to support the delivery roadmap

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 10+ years of professional experience in Software Engineering, Platform Engineering, Identity & Access Management, or related technology disciplines
• 7+ years of people leadership experience, including leadership of engineering managers and senior managers
• + years of experience defining and executing technology strategy, roadmaps, and multi-year modernization initiatives
• 5+ years of experience driving cloud-native transformation, API-first architectures, and platform engineering practices
• Strong understanding of Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM), authentication, authorization, customer profile services, and identity security principles
• Proven experience managing budgets, vendor partnerships, workforce planning, and technology investment decisions
• Demonstrated success delivering critical technology platforms with accountability for availability, scalability, security, and operational excellence
• Experience leveraging AI and automation to improve engineering productivity, operational efficiency, and customer experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience leading Customer Identity platforms supporting 10M+ customer accounts
• Experience with enterprise CIAM solutions including Okta, Auth0, Ping Identity, ForgeRock or Microsoft Entra
• Experience in Healthcare, Retail, Pharmacy, Financial Services or other highly regulated industries
• Ability to influence executive stakeholders and build alignment across Product, Security, Architecture, Infrastructure, and Business organizations
• Experience with fraud prevention, risk-based authentication, identity verification and account protection capabilities
• Strong executive communication skills with the ability to present technology strategy, business outcomes and organizational priorities to senior leadership
• Proven track record leading large-scale, customer-facing platforms serving millions of users in a complex enterprise environment
• Experience leading geographically distributed engineering organizations and driving organizational transformation
• Demonstrated success attracting, developing, and retaining high-performing engineering talent while building strong leadership pipelines

EDUCATION

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

BUSINESS OVERVIEW

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. We strive to promote and sustain a culture of diversity, inclusion and belonging every day. CVS Health is an affirmative action employer, and is an equal opportunity employer, as are the physician-owned businesses for which CVS Health provides management services. We do not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, promotion, or any other personnel action based on race, ethnicity, color, national origin, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. We proudly support and encourage people with military experience (active, veterans, reservists and National Guard) as well as military spouses to apply for CVS Health job opportunities.

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

$144,200.00 - $288,400.00

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: 11/27/2026

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