Lead Director - Digital Engineering

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 Digital is looking for hands-on, passionate people who want to join a high energy and growing team to make a difference in customers’ lives and who want to be on the forefront of digital innovation that aims to reinvent what a pharmacy and a health care company can be in the digital world. Currently we are hiring a Lead Director – Digital Engineering who will focuses within our Customer Identity area. This Lead Director will be accountable for the strategy, modernization, delivery, and operation of CVS Health's customer identity platforms and services. This people leader will oversee customer identity capabilities serving millions of customers across Health100, Caremark, Specialty, Retail, Health Services, and emerging digital experiences.   The Lead Director – Digital Engineering will partner across Product, Security, Architecture, and Business teams to advance modernization, strengthen security, improve operational excellence, and deliver identity solutions that support enterprise growth and customer engagement. This role is accountable for product delivery, platform availability, security, modernization, organizational development, and requires a track record of building high-performing teams and delivering business outcomes at scale.   Expectations For The Role: • Lead a multi-team engineering organization responsible for authentication services, profile management, identity integrations, and platform operations • Drive the evolution of identity capabilities toward a scalable, cloud-native, API-first architecture while ensuring secure, seamless, and reliable customer experiences • Drive AI enabled transformations and execution strategies • Identify and manage risks, engage teams to drive towards resolution • Identify and manage cross-workstream technical dependencies • End-to-End Program Plan and timely tracking and reporting • Manage program level status reporting and communication to stakeholders • Define, measure and track metrics and KPIS to measure success and Business Outcomes for the FS merchandizing portfolio • Build and cultivate strong relationships with Business, Product and Technology partners and vendors to support the delivery roadmap   REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS • 10+ years of professional experience in Software Engineering, Platform Engineering, Identity & Access Management, or related technology disciplines • 7+ years of people leadership experience, including leadership of engineering managers and senior managers • + years of experience defining and executing technology strategy, roadmaps, and multi-year modernization initiatives • 5+ years of experience driving cloud-native transformation, API-first architectures, and platform engineering practices • Strong understanding of Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM), authentication, authorization, customer profile services, and identity security principles • Proven experience managing budgets, vendor partnerships, workforce planning, and technology investment decisions • Demonstrated success delivering critical technology platforms with accountability for availability, scalability, security, and operational excellence • Experience leveraging AI and automation to improve engineering productivity, operational efficiency, and customer experience   PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS • Exp