Hybrid Senior Software Engineering Director

at The Cigna Group

• Job title: Senior Software Engineering Director
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $195,000 - $325,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Morris Plains, United States

About the role

• Senior Director overseeing software delivery, product strategy, and technology planning at Evernorth Health Services. Leading innovation and managing engineering teams within The Cigna Group.

Responsibilities

• Set and deliver short- and long-term 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, high-performance culture grounded in accountability, growth, and innovation.
• Own end-to-end 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 future-state 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 AI-enabled 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, resiliency-focused 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.

Requirements

• 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 senior-level business and technology leaders.
• Strong understanding of enterprise software engineering practices, architecture, and delivery at scale.
• Healthcare domain knowledge, with experience supporting regulated or mission-critical 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.

Benefits

• medical, vision, dental benefits
• well-being and behavioral health programs
• 401(k)
• company paid life insurance
• tuition reimbursement
• minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year
• paid holidays