Engineering & Platforms Director – HR Technology

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Alabama, +44 more states.

📋 Description

• Define and execute the Platform strategy and delivery in collaboration with Architecture, Technical Product Owners, and AppDev teams.

• Develop and enhance internal platforms, golden paths, and self-service tools to elevate the developer experience.

• Expand CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, GitOps workflows, and DevSecOps practices.

• Integrate security and observability tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, and Grafana into delivery pipelines.

• Create scalable, cost-efficient technical solutions, patterns, and enterprise integrations.

• Lead and mentor cross-functional Engineering, DevOps, and site reliability teams.

• Oversee cloud expenditure budgets, vendor negotiations, and resource forecasting.

• Monitor engineering productivity and reliability metrics, including DORA metrics, deployment frequency, change failure rate, and mean time to recovery.

• Manage cloud expenses and compliance.

• Assess, develop, and integrate AI/ML tools, cloud-native services, and automation frameworks into the Platform and software delivery lifecycle.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience as a Technology & Engineering Leader, overseeing the complete cycle of large software engineering programs and managing stakeholders, risk mitigation, issue resolution, and developing KPIs and status reports for Senior Leaders.

• More than 8 years of experience leading teams in a matrix organization.

• At least 4 years of collaboration with architecture, product, and PMO teams to influence product development and enhance products.

• A minimum of 4 years leading discovery sessions, workshops, demos, onboarding sessions, and enablement activities.

• At least 2 years in a leadership role, coordinating across software cross-functional teams.

• Over 2 years of experience influencing stakeholders, managing vendor/budget relationships, and translating complex technical strategies for business units.

• More than 2 years demonstrating excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the capability to prepare proposals, summaries, roadmaps, and executive-ready recommendations.

• At least 2 years of experience mentoring resources and facilitating knowledge transfer across teams.

• Over 2 years of experience working with minimal supervision and leading complex initiatives across multiple teams and priorities.

• Experience working with distributed teams across various time zones and geographies.

• Familiarity with Scrum/Agile development methodologies.

• Experience in performance and people management.

• Proven experience leading large programs with responsibility for end-to-end planning.

• Strong facilitation and presentation capabilities.

• Experience collaborating with technology vendors.

• Bachelor's degree preferred or specialized training and relevant professional qualifications.

🏝️ Benefits

• CVS Health bonus, commission, or short-term incentive program.

• Award target in the company’s equity award program.

• Medical coverage.

• Dental coverage.

• Vision coverage.

• Paid time off.

• Retirement savings options.

• Wellness programs.

• Other resources supporting physical, emotional, and financial well-being.