Lead Director - Software Development Engineering

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.

POSITION SUMMARY

CVS Health Digital is looking for a dynamic and driven Lead Director, Software Development Engineering, to lead an engineering team tasked with creating best in class experiences focused on identifying, prioritizing and shaping complex enterprise initiatives in partnership with business stakeholders. In this role, reporting directly to the Executive Director, Digital Engineering, you will be leading a team of engineers to drive the delivery of our digital products and focusing on digital transformation initiatives.  You will assist in creating our next generation platform.  This Director will take ownership and utilize exemplary communication skills to support, manage, and mentor engineering professionals with deep and varying technical backgrounds and experience. You should have the ability to lead end-to-end delivery of back-end applications, be comfortable working with both product and architecture teams, understand solutioning at an expert level and be data driven from an ecommerce perspective.  A successful candidate will be highly motivated and passionate about raising the engineering bar within the team and be cognizant that the success of the team’s work will impact millions of CVS consumers.

In this role you will:

• Grow engineering teams by interviewing, recruiting and hiring, as well as continuously guide, coach and mentor engineers
• Provide leadership for Digital initiatives/digital transformation for ecommerce leveraging Java/J2EE stack, Microservices, Open source frameworks, Cloud
• Collaborate with various areas of the organization including business partners, product owners, architecture, security mavens, digital and IT engineering teams
• Provide ongoing maintenance, support and enhancements to existing systems and platforms
• Promote proper implementation of SAFe process techniques
• Provide support in all phases of SDLC and ensure to deliver high-quality products
• Provide recommendations for continuous improvement. Provide technical leadership direction, determining and developing approaches to solutions by coordinating multiple resources to solve complex problems
• Make informed decisions quickly and taking ownership of services and applications at scale
• Ability to understand big picture, while implementing at the detail level
• Analytical thinking - able to simplify complex problems, processes or projects into component parts explore and evaluate them systematically
• Strategic thinking – able to identify a vision along with the plans, which need to be implemented to meet the end goal, evaluating situations, decisions and issues in the short, medium and long term
• Provide technical guidance in software design and development activities
• Assist in technical and security audits and ensure audit recommendations are implemented
• Be an advocate of security best practices, champion and support the importance of security within engineering, partnering with Digital and Enterprise security teams and digital product owners to ensure compliance
• Encourage a collaborative, open and dynamic team culture where individuals and teams can realize their full potential

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 10+ years of overall IT/Digital development experience on enterprise class applications
• 5+ years in a management or technical lead role, proven track record in leading software development teams
• 5+ years leading teams of Software Development Engineers
• 5+ years of experience in partnering with architecture, product and program management teams to influence product development assisting or improving products

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience in leading medium to large sized teams of diverse development engineers across multiple locations
• Experience with programming languages/frameworks: Java, SpringBoot
• Excellent knowledge with any SQL platform
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform
• Hands on experience with cloud technologies/platforms, and/or CRMs
• Good understanding and working experience in IT Security best practices and other compliance standards such as ADA, HIPAA, PCI DSS
• Experience in SAFe Agile work environments;