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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Lead Director, Software Engineering - **Company:** CVS Health - **Location:** Albany, NY, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $144,200.0 - $288,400.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Engineering, Distributed Systems, Machine Learning, Open Source Technology, Software Engineering, Data Processing, Large Language Models, Prompt Engineering, AI Platforms, Information Technology, Microservices - **Published:** July 13, 2026 - **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/9EC92DBCA00C454C86531822240CAB61/job/ ## About the Role * 10+ years of progressive software engineering experience , including 5+ years leading large-scale engineering organizations. You have built and scaled systems that serve tens of thousands of users. You know what happens when your system goes down. * Deep, hands-on technical foundation in distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and modern backend engineering at scale. * Proven AI platform ownership. You have deployed production AI systems - not POCs, not demos, not limited to prompt engineering. You understand model deployment pipelines, vector databases, RAG architectures, LLM orchestration, inference optimization, and responsible AI principles. * Track record of engineering transformation. You have migrated monoliths to microservices, modernized legacy platforms under real business pressure, and lived the consequences of every architectural decision you've made. Preferred Qualifications * Healthcare or highly regulated domain experience - You have navigated HIPAA, CMS compliance, PHI data handling development. * Platform engineering ownership - You have built or led internal developer platforms, engineering productivity tooling. Education Minimum * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or a closely related technical discipline - or equivalent demonstrated engineering depth through work history, open source portfolio, or verifiable technical contribution at scale. Preferred * Master's degree (M.S. or M.Eng.) in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, or a related quantitative field. Graduate-level training in algorithms, distributed systems, statistical learning, or systems design gives us confidence in your technical ceiling. ## Description We're looking for a Lead Director of Software Engineering who thinks like a founder, executes like a principal engineer, and leads like someone who's done it at the highest levels of the industry. You will set the bar - and then raise it. What You'll Actually Do * Drive technical strategy across a multi-team engineering organization (50-150+ engineers), setting architectural standards, defining engineering excellence benchmarks, and personally reviewing and elevating the work. * Operational Efficiency. Every system design decision you make should start with the question: How to create10x leverage? You will actively embed LLMs, generative AI, agentic workflows, and ML-powered automation into the engineering lifecycle, not just as experiments, but as production-grade differentiators. * Own delivery at velocity. You ship. You are accountable for outcomes, not roadmaps. You hold your teams to the same standard. * Partner at the executive level - with Product owners, Data Engineers, and Health care business leaders - translating business strategy into engineering bets with precision and conviction. * Be the technical voice in the room You call out architectural debt, push back on infeasible timelines, and advocate for the right engineering investment. ## Related Videos - [This App Reached 10,000 Users in One Week. 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