Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. CVS Health is a company focused on shaping a more connected and compassionate health experience. As a Lead Director - Mobile Engineering, you will lead multiple mobile engineering teams, ensuring delivery, technical quality, and team health while shaping long-term strategy across the digital ecosystem.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop engineering managers and staff level engineers, fostering a culture of trust, accountability, and continuous improvement
- Own delivery outcomes for mobile initiatives, ensuring commitments are based on realistic capacity, clear dependencies, and sound technical plans
- Partner closely with Product and Design leaders to align on priorities, scope, and sequencing - translating strategy into executable plans
- Guide technical direction across our tech stack (e.g., Jetpack Compose, Kotlin, SwiftUI, Swift), balancing innovation with stability
- Drive operational excellence through strategic planning, observability, security, and post-incident learning
- Anticipate and manage delivery risk, especially in complex, cross-team environments with shared services and dependencies
- Support hiring, onboarding, and talent development, while ensuring teams are structured to scale sustainably
- Represent mobile engineering in executive and cross-functional forums, communicating clearly, calmly, and with credibility
- Champion inclusive, accessible, and member-centric digital experiences that align with CVS Health values
Skills
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, including building and delivering modern mobile applications
- 5+ years of experience partnering with Product, Design, and Platform teams in large, matrixed organizations
- Bachelor's degree, or equivalent experience (HS diploma + 4 years relevant experience)
- Demonstrated ability to balance technical excellence, delivery accountability, and people leadership
- Comfort operating with ambiguity and evolving priorities, while maintaining clarity for your teams
- Experience evaluating, adopting, and scaling emerging technologies, including AI-enabled tools and capabilities, to improve engineering productivity, product quality, and team effectiveness
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex topics to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience working in regulated or highly available environments (e.g., healthcare, finance, large-scale consumer platforms)
- Experience supporting large-scale redesigns, platform modernization, engineering processes, and system optimization
- Familiarity with observability, experimentation, and feature flagging tools
- Passion for mentorship, leadership development, and building inclusive teams
- Excellent collaboration skills required to ideate solutions that are sufficient and feasible to both the business leads and the technical teams
- Exceptional organizational, analytical, problem-solving, strategic thinking, and time management abilities
- Experience with optimization skills to improve performance, scalability, and usability of our applications
- Open-minded to new ideas & approaches, and ability to implement the ideas using various technologies
- A self-starter that is naturally inquisitive
- Experience with agile development, SAFe Agile experienced preferred
Benefits
- CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program
- Award target in the company’s equity award program
- Comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial well‑being of colleagues and their families
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Paid time off
- Retirement savings options
- Wellness programs
- Other resources, based on eligibility
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