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# Director, Software Engineering

- **Company:** Cigna
- **Location:** Fort Lauderdale, FL, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, Internet Service Provider, Commercial Software, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Software Version Control
- **Published:** November 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.businessworkforce.com/job.asp?id=3494067246&tx=VT656TYI&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

* Demonstrated experience in building high performing teams including the hiring and developing of great people
 * Ability to establish repeatable processes, best practices and implement version control software in a team environment
 * Proven and accomplished individual with excellent leadership and strategic management skills, * Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
 * 10+ years of software product development experience working on commercially available software and / or Healthcare platforms
 * 8+ years of management experience, delivering successful innovate software products
 * Excellent collaboration skills and techniques to create innovative market leading solutions
 * Excellent time management, communication, decision making, and presentation
 * Experience working with vendors in system selection, cost negotiation, and the development of service level agreements
 * Display a strong desire to achieve and attain high levels of both internal and external customer satisfactions

If you will be working at home occasionally or permanently, the internet connection must be obtained through a cable broadband or fiber optic internet service provider with speeds of at least 10Mbps download/5Mbps upload.

## Description

The Director of Software Engineering will be accountable for leading new initiatives to deliver direct to consumer product offerings and associated technology enabled services. This individual will be expected to contribute to the strategic direction for multiple direct to consumer products and technology-enabled services through interaction with Product Management, Business Leadership and Operations teams.

 * Provide leadership and management of teams responsible for commercial software development and the introduction of new technologies
 * Partner with the business units and customers
 * Experience leading development using modern software engineering and product development tools including Agile/SAFE, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, etc.
 * Demonstrate leadership in the context of software engineering and be an evangelist for engineering best practices
 * Stay abreast of leading-edge technologies in the industry
 * Evaluate emerging software technologies
 * Work collaboratively with all business areas to assess unmet/new business needs and solutions
 * Encourage the growth of direct and indirect reports through skills development, objectives and goal setting; Holds direct reports accountable for meeting performance standards and departmental performance goals; mentors staff; measures staff performance and completes regular performance reviews and ranking