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Cigna Health And Life Insurance Company

PBM Product & Platform Engineering Director

Newton, MA Posted today

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  • Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 14 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest May 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first.
  • 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.
  • What Cigna Health And Life Insurance Company paid sponsored hires in similar roles1 certified filing for “Actuarial Director” (Actuaries) in PA: $200k–$200k, median $200k.
  • Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
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Employer is on a government sponsor record
The US Department of Labor certified 14 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest May 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
No salary bar for this route
H-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 Cigna Health And Life Insurance Company paid sponsored hires in similar roles
1 certified filing for “Actuarial Director” (Actuaries) in PA: $200k–$200k, median $200k. Most were filed at wage level IV (100%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).

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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About the role

Job Description   PBM Product & Platform Engineering Director will lead a Software Engineering team that delivers innovative healthcare technology solutions to our patients, members, and customers as we build and scale the New PBM Platform. Reporting to the VP, Technology Delivery for the New PBM Platform, the Director is accountable for implementation and operational execution across assigned core services, runtime, data services, shared components, product capabilities, and ensures engineering delivery aligns with New PBM Platform standards and enterprise requirements.   This leader will build and direct teams of engineers and technical professionals, partner with Product Management Platform, Product and Operations Architecture to clarify requirements and sequencing, and work closely with Delivery, Build Quality, DevSecOps, Data, Security, and Infrastructure teams. The role owns delivery outcomes, engineering quality, technical health, operational readiness, and talent development for the assigned domain.   Core Responsibilities Include   Engineering Strategy & Execution   • Translate the New PBM Platform roadmap, architecture, and product priorities into executable engineering plans for the assigned domain.   • Lead design, development, integration, release, and production-readiness activities with clear commitments and measurable outcomes.   • Ensure solutions meet functional, performance, scalability, reliability, recovery, security, privacy, and compliance expectations.   • Prove that delivered capability holds at production volumes, covering load, soak, throughput, latency, and recovery, and produce the supporting evidence before capability is accepted.   • Drive disciplined engineering practices, design reviews, code quality, documentation, and technical decision-making.   • Balance near-term delivery with long-term sustainability, reuse, maintainability, and reduction of technical debt.   Product & Platform Partnership   • Partner with Product Management and Product Architecture to own the engineering half of the specification, confirming requirements are clear, complete, testable, and buildable before work enters a sprint.   • Partner with Platform Architecture and shared engineering teams to apply common patterns, standards, and reusable services.   • Coordinate dependencies across product domains, platform teams, enterprise integrations, and the teams integrating, modernizing, and re-implementing the existing PBM systems.   • Contribute engineering insight to roadmap decisions, sequencing, capacity planning, and investment tradeoffs.   • Ensure assigned capabilities can operate at required enterprise scale without unnecessary client-specific rebuilding.   Engineering Performance & Operations   • Establish metrics for delivery predictability, throughput, quality, reliability, technical health, and operational performance.   • Partner with Build Quality and Test Architecture leaders to meet the program quality bar and produce required readiness evidence.   • Ensure observability, support models, runbooks, incident response, resilience, and recovery capabilities are built into delivered solutions.   • Lead resolution of critical technical issues, production risks, and cross-team engineering barriers.   • Manage the engineering resources that carry production support for delivered capability, including sustaining and on-call coverage, defect and incident workload, and the balance between support demand and new delivery commitments.   • Drive continuous improvement in automation, developer productivity, release practices, and operational excellence.   People & Organization Leadership   • Build, lead, and develop a high-performing organization of engineers and technical professionals.   • Establish clea

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