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# Ld Director - Software Engineering

- **Company:** CVS Health
- **Location:** Atlanta, GA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $144,200.0 - $288,400.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Cloud Engineering, Distributed Systems, Software Engineering, Data Processing, Large Language Models, Prompt Engineering, AI Platforms, Microservices
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.atlantacareerpath.com/job.asp?id=3377270046&tx=TT4946THI&pt=1&aff=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54&utm_source=Job%20Feed&utm_medium=textkernel&utm_campaign=DE&utm_term=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54

## 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.

## 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


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