Lead Director, Digital Engineering, Cloud Platform

CVS Health

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Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Hybrid
Location
Hartford, CT
Salary
$144,200–$288,400 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
2 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday
Closes
Oct 25, 2026

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This role $216k
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This role pays less than 54% of similar roles. Most pay $188,303–$276,000 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $216k versus about $232k for comparable roles.

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About CVS Health

CVS Health is a leading American healthcare company operating retail pharmacies, pharmacy benefit management services, and a health insurance segment through Aetna, one of the nation''s largest health insurers. Industry: Healthcare & Pharmacy

CVS Health currently has 110 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $106,605–$260,590 across 109 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Lead Director, Digital Engineering, Cloud Platform

The Lead Director - Digital Engineering, Cloud Platform will lead multiple platform engineering teams within the Digital Engineering department to manage the AWS infrastructure, DevOps practices, and delivery pipelines. This role involves setting the cloud platform strategy, owning AWS security architecture and governance, and managing cloud costs as a portfolio. Key responsibilities include driving CI/CD standards, building self-service tooling, and leading AI adoption for engineering tools and platform operations. The candidate will utilize technologies including MSK, PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, Lambda, Fargate, Step Functions, Terraform, CloudFormation, and CDK. The work focuses on solving complex infrastructure problems in a highly regulated healthcare environment, ensuring compliance with HIPAA and HITRUST standards while maintaining operational excellence through observability, SLOs, and incident management across the enterprise platform.

What you'll do

  • Set the cloud platform strategy, target-state AWS architecture, and multi-year roadmap with enterprise stakeholders.
  • Own AWS security architecture, landing zone design, and multi-account guardrails to meet regulatory requirements.
  • Lead AI adoption by implementing AI-assisted engineering tools and AI-driven platform operations.
  • Drive CI/CD standards and Infrastructure-as-Code adoption to build self-service capabilities for product teams.
  • Manage the cloud cost portfolio through visibility, showback/chargeback, and annual optimization targets.
  • Oversee operational excellence including observability, SLOs, incident management, and capacity planning.
  • Lead multiple engineering teams through organizational design, hiring, coaching, and performance management.
  • Represent the platform to senior stakeholders by communicating health, costs, and strategic technology tradeoffs.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of experience in infrastructure or platform engineering.
  • 7+ years of experience leading engineering teams, managers, and technical portfolios.
  • 5+ years of hands-on AWS experience at enterprise scale including compute, networking, IAM, and managed data services.
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience (HS diploma + 4 years relevant experience).
  • Leadership experience in healthcare, insurance, financial services, or another highly regulated industry (preferred).
  • Demonstrated success scaling CI/CD platforms and Infrastructure-as-Code across multiple teams (preferred).
  • Proven track record running a cloud cost optimization or FinOps program with measurable savings (preferred).
  • AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, or AWS Certified Security – Specialty (preferred).

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