Engineering & Platforms Director - HR Technology

CVS Health•Scottsdale, AZ

5d•$144,200 - $288,400

About The Position

CVS Health is seeking a dynamic engineering leader for its HR Technology organization to lead the strategy, design, and operational excellence of multi-cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and internal platforms. The role leads a high-performing organization of platform, DevOps, and engineering professionals, driving engineering excellence, AI solutions, system reliability, cost optimization, and automated security across the software lifecycle. The successful candidate is collaborative, motivated, effective at prioritization and communication, and has a consistent record of execution and accelerated delivery in a fast-paced environment. The position works with cross-functional engineering teams to create high-quality experiences and identify, prioritize, and shape HR Technology platforms. It partners with architecture, technical product owners, application development teams, product and business stakeholders to set platform strategy and deliver scalable, cost-effective solutions and enterprise integrations. The leader also oversees team development, budgets, vendor relationships, resource forecasting, engineering metrics, cloud costs, and compliance. The role offers a base pay range of $144,200 to $288,400 and is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program, as well as a target award in the company equity award program. This full-time position is eligible for benefits including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other resources, subject to eligibility.

Requirements

At least 10 years working as a technology and engineering leader leading the full cycle of large software engineering programs, managing stakeholders, mitigating risk, resolving issues, developing KPIs, and reporting status to senior leaders.
At least 8 years leading teams in a matrix organization.
At least 4 years partnering with architecture, product, and PMO teams to influence product development and assist with or improve products.
At least 4 years leading discovery sessions, workshops, demonstrations, onboarding sessions, and enablement activities.
At least 2 years in a leadership role coordinating across software cross-functional teams.
At least 2 years influencing stakeholders, managing vendor and budget relationships, and translating complex technical strategies for business units.
At least 2 years demonstrating strong written and verbal communication skills, including preparing proposals, summaries, roadmaps, and executive-ready recommendations.
At least 2 years mentoring resources and supporting knowledge transfer across teams.
At least 2 years working under limited direction and leading complex initiatives across multiple teams and priorities.
Bachelor’s degree preferred, or specialized training/relevant professional qualification.

Nice To Haves

Experience working with distributed teams across multiple time zones and geographies.
Experience with Scrum/Agile development methodologies.
Ability to see the big picture and prioritize work for impact on business and technology vision and requirements.
Ability to influence and persuade others with sound, well-reasoned arguments.
Performance or people management experience.
Experience leading large programs with end-to-end planning responsibility.
Strong facilitation and presentation skills.
Experience working with technology vendors.
Strong work ethic and self-starter approach.

Responsibilities

Define and drive platform strategy and delivery in partnership with Architecture, Technical Product Owners, and application development teams across portfolios.
Build and scale internal platforms, golden paths, and self-service tools to reduce developer cognitive load and improve developer experience.
Scale CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, GitOps workflows, and DevSecOps practices, embedding security and observability into delivery pipelines.
Partner with product, architecture, and business stakeholders to design scalable, cost-effective technical solutions, patterns, and enterprise integrations.
Mentor and lead cross-functional engineering, DevOps, and site reliability teams; manage cloud spend budgets, vendor negotiations, and resource forecasting.
Track engineering productivity and reliability metrics, including DORA metrics, deployment frequency, change failure rate, and mean time to recovery; manage cloud costs and compliance.
Evaluate, build, and integrate AI/ML tools, cloud-native services, and automation frameworks into platforms and the software delivery lifecycle.
Lead large software engineering programs, manage stakeholders and risks, resolve issues, develop KPIs, and report status to senior leaders.
Lead discovery sessions, workshops, demonstrations, onboarding sessions, and enablement activities.
Influence stakeholders and communicate technical strategies, proposals, summaries, roadmaps, and recommendations to business units and senior audiences.
Mentor team members and support knowledge transfer across teams.