Director, Software Engineering

Job Description The Director of Software Engineering will be accountable for leading new initiatives to deliver direct to consumer product offerings and associated technology enabled services. This individual will be expected to contribute to the strategic direction for multiple direct to consumer products and technology-enabled services through interaction with Product Management, Business Leadership and Operations teams. • Provide leadership and management of teams responsible for commercial software development and the introduction of new technologies • Partner with the business units and customers • Experience leading development using modern software engineering and product development tools including Agile/SAFE, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, etc. • Demonstrate leadership in the context of software engineering and be an evangelist for engineering best practices • Stay abreast of leading-edge technologies in the industry • Evaluate emerging software technologies • Work collaboratively with all business areas to assess unmet/new business needs and solutions • Encourage the growth of direct and indirect reports through skills development, objectives and goal setting; Holds direct reports accountable for meeting performance standards and departmental performance goals; mentors staff; measures staff performance and completes regular performance reviews and ranking • Demonstrated experience in building high performing teams including the hiring and developing of great people • Ability to establish repeatable processes, best practices and implement version control software in a team environment • Proven and accomplished individual with excellent leadership and strategic management skills Qualifications: • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science • 10+ years of software product development experience working on commercially available software and / or Healthcare platforms • 8+ years of management experience, delivering successful innovate software products • Excellent collaboration skills and techniques to create innovative market leading solutions • Excellent time management, communication, decision making, and presentation • Experience working with vendors in system selection, cost negotiation, and the development of service level agreements • Display a strong desire to achieve and attain high levels of both internal and external customer satisfactions If you will be working at home occasionally or permanently, the internet connection must be obtained through a cable broadband or fiber optic internet service provider with speeds of at least 10Mbps download/5Mbps upload. About Evernorth Health Services Evernorth Health Services, a division of The Cigna Group, creates pharmacy, care and benefit solutions to improve health and increase vitality. We relentlessly innovate to make the prediction, prevention and treatment of illness and disease more accessible to millions of people. Join us in driving growth and improving lives. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, age, disability, sex, childbirth (including pregnancy) or related medical conditions including but not limited to lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital or familial status, genetic information, status with regard to public assistance, citizenship status or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws. If you need a reasonable accommodation to complete the online application process, please email seeyourself@thecignagroup.com for assistance.  Please note that this email inbox is dedicated to accommodation requests only and cannot provide application updates or accept resumes. T