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Lead Director - Digital Engineering, Cloud Platform
CVS Pharmacy INC · 🇺🇸 CT - Hartford
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 191 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 217 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What CVS Pharmacy INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles2 certified filings for “Staff Data Platform Engineer” (Information Technology Project Managers) in TX: $127k–$165k, median $146k. Most were filed at wage level III (50%) — 3 lottery entries, ≈46% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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Sponsor Radar — CVS Pharmacy INC
The US Department of Labor certified 191 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 217 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time. Position Summary: CVS Health is hiring a Lead Director for our Cloud Platform engineering teams within Digital Engineering - the AWS infrastructure, DevOps practices, and delivery pipelines that every product engineering team builds on. This Lead Director - Digital Engineering, Cloud Platform will own multiple platform engineering teams that power the products and services we deliver to our members, and every improvement you make - faster delivery, lower cost, smarter automation - compounds across everything we ship. This is a strategic architecture and leadership role: you’ll set technical direction for AWS, DevOps, and CI/CD; own the platform’s security and compliance posture; run cloud cost as a managed portfolio; build the self-service tooling that lets developers move faster; and lead AI adoption across both the platform and the teams that depend on it. You will bring deep technical depth, financial acumen to run infrastructure like a business, and the leadership presence to make this platform a genuine competitive advantage. This role reports to an AVP within Digital Engineering and partners directly with executive engineering leadership. What You’ll Be Doing: • Setting the cloud platform strategy, target-state AWS architecture, and multi-year roadmap in partnership with Product, Architecture, Security, and enterprise stakeholders • Owning AWS security architecture and governance - landing zone design, multi-account guardrails (SCPs, IAM boundaries, encryption), and partnership with Security and Compliance to meet regulatory requirements (e.g., HIPAA, HITRUST) and close audit findings - including the data/messaging backbone (MSK, PostgreSQL, OpenSearch) and serverless patterns that underpin product workloads • Leading AI adoption across the organization - AI-assisted engineering tools for developers and AI-driven platform operations like anomaly detection and automated remediation - with governance that balances velocity and compliance • Driving CI/CD standards and Infrastructure-as-Code adoption, and building self-service capabilities so product teams can provision environments and pipelines without waiting on tickets • Running cloud cost as a managed portfolio: cost visibility, showback/chargeback, and an annual optimization target delivered through rightsizing and architecture reviews • Owning operational excellence - observability, SLOs, incident management, and capacity planning - across the platform • Leading multiple engineering teams and managers: organizational design, hiring, coaching, and performance management, while building the leadership pipeline within your organization • Representing the platform to senior stakeholders, communicating health, cost, and tradeoffs, and evaluating emerging technology for strategic fit Required Qualifications: • 10+ years of experience in infrastructure or platform engineering • 7+ years of experience leading engineering teams, managers, and technical portfolios • 5+ years of hands-on AWS at enterprise scale experience - compute, networking, IAM, and managed data/messaging services such as MSK (Kafka), PostgreSQL (RDS/Aurora), and OpenSearch; serverless experience (Lambda, Fargate, Step Functions) Preferred Qualifications: • Leadership experience in healthcare, insurance, financial services, or another highly regulated industry