Senior Director of AI-Driven Health Engineering

CVS Health Corporation; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 144,000 - 288,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Retirement savings options

Paid time off

Wellness programs

Equity/bonus programs

Job summary

CVS Health Corporation is seeking a senior software leader to drive technical strategy for a multi-team engineering organization in the United States. You will embed AI/ML workflows and production-grade automation into the lifecycle, while owning delivery and partnering with executives to translate business goals into engineering bets.

The role requires deep distributed-systems expertise, cloud-native back-end engineering, and a proven track record in transforming software architectures from

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: deployment of production AI systems, model deployment pipelines, and responsible AI.
• Track record of engineering transformation: migrating monoliths to microservices and modernizing legacy platforms.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical strategy across a multi-team engineering organization (50-150+ engineers).
• Embed LLMs, generative AI, agentic workflows, and ML-powered automation into the engineering lifecycle.
• Own delivery at velocity and be accountable for outcomes.
• Partner with Product, Data Engineers, and Health care leaders to translate strategy into engineering bets.
• Be the technical voice, addressing debt and advocating for the right investments.

Skills

Software leadership

Distributed systems

Cloud-native architectures

AI platform ownership

Engineering transformation

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/related field

Master's degree in CS/AI/ML/Data Science

Tools

Vector databases

RAG architectures

LLM orchestration

Inference optimization

Job description

CVS Health Corporation is seeking a senior software leader to drive technical strategy for a multi-team engineering organization in the United States. You will embed AI/ML workflows and production-grade automation into the lifecycle, while owning delivery and partnering with executives to translate business goals into engineering bets.

The role requires deep distributed-systems expertise, cloud-native back-end engineering, and a proven track record in transforming software architectures from