Managing Director, Corporate Functions Technology

The Cigna Group

1d•$209,600 - $349,300

About The Position

The Managing Director, Corporate Functions Technology is a senior technology leader responsible for defining and executing technology strategy, product roadmaps, engineering delivery, and modernization across a portfolio of critical Corporate Functions capabilities. The initial portfolio has a significant focus on Legal technology and enterprise collaboration, spanning Legal Operations, regulatory and compliance activities, contract lifecycle management, contract ingestion and intelligence, legal matter and spend management, discovery and legal hold, knowledge management, collaboration, content, search, and AI-enabled productivity. The portfolio may evolve to include other Corporate Functions capabilities, such as select Finance and enterprise shared services. The role partners with senior leaders across Legal, Legal Operations, Finance, Corporate Functions, Technology, Information Security, Enterprise Architecture, Privacy, Risk, and other enterprise functions to establish an innovation-driven roadmap that simplifies the technology landscape, improves user experience, and delivers measurable business outcomes. A key mandate is shifting from traditional project-based delivery toward durable, product-oriented teams and iterative, outcome-based ways of working. The leader brings together business capability ownership, product management, architecture, and engineering to deliver value incrementally and continuously improve products and platforms. The Managing Director provides leadership across strategy, Legal and Corporate Functions technology, product and operating-model transformation, architecture and engineering, AI and automation, talent, financial and vendor management, and technology risk and operational excellence. The role also maintains an external perspective on enterprise technology, Legal technology, collaboration, AI, automation, and contract intelligence, translating emerging capabilities into practical enterprise opportunities. The position requires a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field; an advanced degree is preferred. The anticipated annual salary range is $209,600–$349,300, depending on relevant factors including experience and geographic location. The role is also anticipated to be eligible for an annual bonus and long-term incentive plan. If working from home occasionally or permanently, the internet connection must be through cable broadband or fiber service with speeds of at least 10 Mbps download and 5 Mbps upload.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
Significant technology leadership experience, including leadership of product, engineering, architecture, operations, and/or enterprise platform organizations.
Demonstrated experience leading complex, enterprise-scale technology portfolios and transformational initiatives.
Proven ability to transition organizations from traditional project delivery toward product-based, iterative, outcome-oriented operating models.
Experience jointly developing technology strategies and roadmaps with senior business executives and establishing measurable business outcomes.
Experience building, developing, and leading high-performing technology teams across employees, contractors, and strategic partners.
Technical depth in modern full-stack engineering, including software engineering practices, integrations, APIs, enterprise data models, and cloud architectures.
Meaningful experience with AI/ML platforms, generative AI, intelligent automation, and emerging agentic technologies, including taking AI capabilities from experimentation into production.
Strong understanding of enterprise SaaS architecture, configuration, integration, lifecycle management, and platform rationalization.
Experience establishing modern DevSecOps practices, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and engineering quality disciplines.
Ability to evaluate trade-offs among custom development, commercial platforms, SaaS solutions, and strategic technology partnerships.
Experience creating reusable technology assets and rapidly developing prototypes, proofs of concept, and MVPs to validate business value.
Strong understanding of non-functional architecture requirements, including security, privacy, availability, resiliency, scalability, performance, and maintainability.
Ability to remain current with emerging technologies and translate technology trends into practical recommendations and business opportunities.
Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical topics to senior non-technical audiences and influence executive stakeholders.
Strong financial, portfolio, and vendor-management skills, including investment prioritization, sourcing, contract negotiation, and build-versus-buy decisions.
Strong executive presence, business acumen, relationship management, and influencing skills.
Intellectual curiosity and demonstrated commitment to continuous learning and external technology awareness.
Ability to operate effectively in ambiguity and assume responsibility for an evolving portfolio of Corporate Functions capabilities.

Nice To Haves

An advanced degree.
Legal technology experience, particularly across multiple Legal capabilities rather than a single application or platform.
Experience with contract lifecycle management, contract ingestion, document intelligence, or contract intelligence capabilities.
Experience with enterprise collaboration, productivity, or knowledge platforms.
Experience with Finance technology or other Corporate Functions platforms.
Healthcare, financial services, or other regulated-industry technology experience.

Responsibilities

Own technology strategy, product roadmaps, investment priorities, and execution across the assigned Corporate Functions portfolio, initially focused on Legal technology and enterprise collaboration.
Partner with senior Legal, Legal Operations, Finance, Corporate Functions, and Technology leaders to define business outcomes, priorities, investment roadmaps, and measures of success.
Translate business strategy and capability needs into a multi-year technology strategy spanning platforms, data, architecture, engineering, AI, automation, and operating-model change.
Advise senior business leaders on technology opportunities, risks, investment choices, and external market perspectives; provide transparency into priorities, delivery, investment, dependencies, risk, and outcomes.
Provide technology leadership across Legal capabilities including matter management and e-billing, Legal intake and workflow, e-discovery and legal hold, regulatory and compliance technology, intellectual property and entity management, knowledge management, investigations, and productivity.
Establish contract ingestion and intelligence capabilities to ingest documents, extract and structure key terms and obligations, identify contractual intent, enable validation and analysis, and make information available to downstream processes, analytics, AI, and decision-making.
Develop reusable contract ingestion and intelligence capabilities in partnership with Technology, Business, Legal, and Corporate Functions teams rather than isolated solutions.
Lead an integrated approach to Legal technologies and modernize and simplify the Legal ecosystem through platform rationalization, technical debt reduction, improved integration, and legacy modernization.
Apply a capability-based approach to additional Corporate Functions domains as they enter the portfolio, potentially including Finance, enterprise corporate services, and shared enterprise capabilities.
Organize the portfolio around durable product teams aligned to business capabilities and value streams, replacing temporary project structures with persistent product and outcome accountability.
Establish accountability in Corporate Functions capabilities, including strategic design, integrations, and data requirements and management.
Implement product-management practices including strategy, roadmaps, objectives and measures, discovery, prioritization, backlog management, iterative delivery, and continuous customer feedback.
Drive measurable outcomes and evidence-based prioritization while balancing modernization with business commitments, regulatory requirements, operational stability, and technical debt reduction.
Define and deliver target-state architecture, including build-versus-buy decisions, platform strategy and rationalization, integration patterns, data flows, security architecture, and controls.
Provide senior leadership for full-stack engineering, solution architecture, and technical design across SaaS products, integrations, APIs, cloud services, data capabilities, and custom-developed solutions.
Ensure solutions meet appropriate standards for scalability, resilience, maintainability, security, performance, usability, and cost efficiency.
Promote reusable architectures, services, APIs, engineering patterns, and shared technology capabilities.
Drive modern engineering disciplines including DevSecOps, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, cloud-native architecture, and engineering automation.
Establish and execute an AI and automation strategy across Legal, collaboration, contract intelligence, and other Corporate Functions capabilities; identify and prioritize high-value opportunities with a focus on ROI.
Move promising AI capabilities from experimentation into secure, scalable production solutions with defined business outcomes, partnering with enterprise AI, Legal, Privacy, Information Security, Risk, and Architecture functions to meet governance requirements.
Build AI fluency across product and engineering teams and incorporate AI-enabled development and productivity practices.
Monitor enterprise technology, AI, emerging software architectures, Legal technology, and contract ingestion and intelligence; evaluate products, technologies, partners, and operating models for potential business value.
Sponsor prototypes, proofs of concept, and MVPs to evaluate emerging technology using measurable success criteria, and provide external technology perspectives and recommendations to senior leaders.
Build, develop, and retain a high-performing organization of product, engineering, architecture, and technology professionals across employees and strategic partners.
Develop technology leaders who can manage durable products and platforms; assess workforce capabilities and build or acquire skills in product management, modern engineering, architecture, AI, contract intelligence, and platform ownership.
Foster accountability, technical excellence, inclusion, curiosity, collaboration, continuous learning, and customer focus; provide coaching, mentoring, succession planning, and career development.
Own portfolio financial management, including annual planning, forecasting, investment prioritization, and cost management.
Develop sourcing and vendor strategies across enterprise software, SaaS, consulting, engineering, and specialized technology partners; lead build-versus-buy decisions and platform rationalization.
Manage strategic vendor relationships, contract performance, and technology partnerships with a focus on long-term business value and total cost of ownership.
Incorporate operational stability, resiliency, security, privacy, records management, Legal privilege, and regulatory requirements into technology strategy and solution design.
Partner with Information Security, Legal, Privacy, Risk, Compliance, Architecture, and other control functions to manage technology and information risk.
Maintain accountability for production health and operational performance and proactively address technology risks, aging platforms, technical debt, concentration risk, and critical dependencies.