Software Engineering Senior Director Evernorth Hybrid

About the Role

• We are seeking an experienced and visionary technology leader to guide software delivery product strategy and technology planning for Evernorth Health Systems Services Technology supporting our Coverage Review and Population Health organizations. This leader will play a critical role in scaling modern resilient technology platforms while developing strong engineering teams and partnering closely with business leaders across the enterprise.
• This role offers the opportunity to shape strategy influence change and lead innovation across a rapidly growing footprint within Evernorth and The Cigna Group. If you are energized by complexity collaboration and building technology that matters this is a chance to make a meaningful and lasting impact.

What You Will Do (Responsibilities)

• Set and deliver short and longterm technology vision for Coverage Review and Population Health aligning product architecture and delivery strategies to business outcomes.
• Lead engage and develop engineering leaders and teams creating an inclusive highperformance culture grounded in accountability growth and innovation.
• Own endtoend technology delivery and product accountability including deep understanding of system architecture business transactions automation opportunities and upstream and downstream dependencies.
• Partner closely with senior business leaders attending staff meetings and serving as a trusted advisor to influence strategy roadmaps and investment decisions.
• Build and evolve global delivery capabilities including establishing and scaling teams in off shore locations to strengthen innovation and reduce vendor dependency.
• Define staffing and financial plans for the product domain including budget ownership performance management and talent development strategies.
• Drive futurestate architecture and roadmaps ensuring solutions are scalable resilient secure and aligned with enterprise standards.
• Champion innovation and continuous improvement proactively identifying automation opportunities and introducing AIenabled solutions where appropriate.
• Manage total cost of ownership partnering with finance to meet budget commitments and build strong business cases for major technology investments.
• Collaborate across the enterprise strengthening alignment with architecture security audit operations product and portfolio management partners.
• Advocate modern engineering practices including agile delivery strong engineering patterns resiliencyfocused design and emerging technology trends.
• Remove organizational and technical barriers enabling teams to meet quality standards delivery commitments and business objectives.
• Drive AI-enabled engineering productivity apply AI tools across coding testing and support to accelerate delivery and improve quality
• Identify high-impact AI use cases that reduce manual effort and enhance decision-making
• Establish measurable engineering outcomes by defining and tracking clear metrics and use data to continuously improve productivity quality and predictability
• Create transparency through shared metrics and insights and use metrics to drive accountability prioritization and leadership decisions

What You Bring (Qualifications)

• Required Qualifications
• Minimum of 15 years of relevant experience in technology delivery software engineering and product leadership including people management.
• Demonstrated ability to lead large complex technology portfolios and teams through transformation and growth.
• Proven experience influencing and partnering with seniorlevel business and technology leaders.
• Strong understanding of enterprise software engineering practices architecture and delivery at scale.
• Healthcare domain knowledge with experience supporting regulated or missioncritical platforms.
• Demonstrated success driving innovation automation and AI enabled solutions in enterprise environments.
• Excellent written verbal and presentation skills with the ability to communicate complex topics clearly.
• Willingness to travel up to 30% and flexibility to support business needs.
• Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in engineering technology or a related field.
• Experience in pharmacy healthcare services or distributionbased industries.
• Experience leading globally distributed teams across multiple sites.
• Strong background in agile delivery models portfolio management and largescale transformation initiatives.
• Demonstrated success driving innovation automation and AIenabled solutions in enterprise environments.

This role is also anticipated to be eligible to participate in an annual bonus and long term incentive plan.

At The Cigna Group youll enjoy a comprehensive range of benefits with a focus on supporting your whole health. Starting on day one of your employment youll be offered several health-related benefits including medical vision dental and well-being and behavioral health programs. We also offer 401(k) company paid life insurance tuition reimbursement a minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year and paid holidays. For more details on our employee benefits programs click here.

About The Cigna Group

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.

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