Lead Director, Software Development Engineering - Rebates

At CVS Health, we’re building a world of health around every consumer and surrounding ourselves with dedicated colleagues who are passionate about transforming health care.

As the nation’s leading health solutions company, we reach millions of Americans through our local presence, digital channels and more than 300,000 purpose-driven colleagues – caring for people where, when and how they choose in a way that is uniquely more connected, more convenient and more compassionate. And we do it all with heart, each and every day.

Job Purpose and Summary:

The Lead Director, Technology will manage the software engineering and product management teams in the organization that develops and operates the systems and processes for PBM rebates for CVS Health. The Lead Director will collaborate with the business stakeholders, vendors, and external partners to align the technology solutions with the strategic goals and objectives.

This role will focus on delivery of all of rebates strategic ‘Grow’ initiatives as well as the build out of and migration from legacy applications into the new rebates platform. Approximately $3,000,000 project portfolio.

Successful candidate will be responsible for overseeing strategic initiatives and ensuring the successful execution of engineering programs. This role requires a visionary leader with a strong technical background, exceptional management skills, and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.

***We will consider remote USA for this role

Responsibilities:

• Provide direction and guidance to the technology teams that work on rebates software products and applications in the ‘grow’

• space.

• Manage the delivery of IT -Rebates Grow initiatives, ensuring the quality, design, timeliness, and budget adherence, and

• meeting the key OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) and KPIs (Key Performance Indicator).

• Manage the IT budget, resources, and vendors delivering the IT projects and services in alignment with OKRs

• Establish and maintain effective communication and collaboration with the business stakeholders, vendors, and external

• partners, meeting the business requirements and expectations, and resolving any issues or escalations.

• Drive the innovation and continuous improvement solutions, leveraging best practices, industry trends, and emerging

• technologies.

Required Qualifications:

• 10 + years of leadership experience in matrixed organization spanning technical leadership and application development

• 7 + years of leading full-stack engineering teams or similar experience including defining and leading the execution of the long-term technology strategy management and delivery

• 5 + years of experience in the following tech stack: Angular, TypeScript, SpringBoot, Java, Kotlin and test Frameworks (Jest, Karma, Jasmine, Selenium, Protractor) and CI/CD tool (Jenkins, Github actions, Concourse, Circle CI), Informatica and mainframes.

• 5+ years of experience leading with deployment/modernization of applications to cloud platforms such as GCP, Azure, AWS, API Design & Development and Microservices Architecture

• 5 + years of Fiscal Management of capital and operating expense budgets

• 7 + years of partnering across the organization and lead enterprise initiatives.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 15+ progressive years in enterprise level software delivery in high impact business areas.

• Collaborate with engineering teams on setting technical direction and ensure alignment with our technology strategy

• Drive scale & reuse by leveraging platforms and capabilities

• Technology research and innovation to develop long term roadmap based on emerging trends in healthcare and digital technologies with a hands-on, roll up your sleeves collaborative style of working

• Strong fundamental understanding of data analytics planforms and data pipelines

• The ability to inspire your organization to deliver quality software solutions

• Lead, manage and grow multiple teams of product focused software engineers in modernizing our platform and core capabilities

• Embrace and incubate emerging technology and open-source products across all platforms

• Work in a startup mindset to modernize our existing tech stacks

• Collaborate with internal teams to find areas of opportunities for automation and machine learning

• Partner with architects, product owners, and software engineers to drive the implementation of new solutions and applications

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