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Get Access To All JobsWe’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time.
Executive Director, Epic Applications
Position Summary
The Executive Director of Epic Applications provides enterprise-wide strategic and technical leadership for the organization's Epic electronic health record (EHR) platform, holding executive accountability for Epic strategy, investment, and delivery across the enterprise. This role leads a multi-tiered organization of Directors, senior managers, and analysts responsible for the design, build, and delivery of Epic solutions, and serves as the primary executive partner to the CHIO and business-unit leadership in aligning the Epic roadmap with organizational strategy. The Executive Director brings vast, hands-on EHR expertise (15+ years) spanning Acute Care, Primary Care, Pharmacy Services, Behavioral Health, and Accountable Care Organization (ACO) operations, and is accountable for the Epic platform's long-term vision, enterprise governance, vendor relationship, and financial portfolio, while driving innovation and continuous improvement across the full Epic ecosystem.
Key Responsibilities
Executive Leadership & Organizational Management
- Lead, mentor, and develop a multi-tiered organization of Directors, senior managers, and Epic analysts across all application areas, building leadership bench strength and long-term succession plans.
- Set the organizational structure, staffing strategy, and capability roadmap for the enterprise Epic function, including build-vs-buy and internal-vs-partner staffing decisions.
- Own performance management, career development, and organizational culture for the Epic organization, fostering accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning at every level.
- Serve as a member of the senior IT/clinical informatics leadership team, contributing to enterprise technology strategy beyond the Epic platform.
Enterprise Build & Delivery
- Own enterprise-wide accountability for Epic build activities, architecture standards, and technical governance, ensuring designs meet clinical, operational, regulatory, and enterprise-architecture requirements.
- Direct, design and own delivery for large-scale, highly visible cross functional and interdependent Enterprise projects.
- Establish, own, and evolve strategic tech alignment, build standards, testing protocols, and change control processes across the full Epic portfolio.
- Oversee system upgrades, module implementations, and integration efforts.
Executive Stakeholder & Business Partnership
- Serve as the senior executive point of contact and trusted advisor for all Epic IT initiatives across the enterprise, including C-suite and board-level engagement.
- Forge and maintain strategic relationships with physician executives, operational leadership, and business partners across Acute Care, Primary Care, Pharmacy, Behavioral Health, and ACO/population health teams.
- Translate enterprise business and clinical needs into actionable technology strategy and prioritized roadmaps.
- Present portfolio status, risk, and outcomes to executive leadership, governance committees, and the board as needed.
Issue & Enterprise Risk Management
- Act as the escalation point for critical issues, system outages, and cross-team conflicts related to Epic.
- Drive enterprise root cause analysis practices and ensure timely, sustainable resolution of high-impact, high-visibility problems.
- Own proactive enterprise risk identification across interdependent programs and direct mitigation strategy at the portfolio level.
Innovation & Enterprise Strategy
- Set the enterprise strategy for streamlining workflows, reducing technical debt, and modernizing the Epic technology stack.
- Maintain current point of view on Epic roadmap releases, industry trends, and emerging tools (e.g., automation, interoperability, AI-enabled workflows), and assess applicability to the organization.
- Champion enterprise-wide standardization, best practices, and platform maturity across all Epic applications and business lines.
Qualifications
Required
- 15+ years of progressive EHR/Epic experience, including significant time in Epic build, design, and senior/executive leadership roles.
- Demonstrated experience leading multi-tiered organizations, including Directors and senior managers, in a large, matrixed healthcare IT environment.
- Vast, hands-on knowledge of Epic applications across Acute Care, Ambulatory/Primary Care, Pharmacy (Willow), and Behavioral Health (Beacon or equivalent) from a technology/build perspective.
- Experience supporting ACO, value-based care, or population health technology initiatives at an enterprise scale.
- Proven track record owning large, cross-functional, highly visible programs with multiple interdependencies and enterprise-level risk.
- Strong executive presence with a demonstrated track record presenting to and influencing C-suite, board, and physician executive stakeholders.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and experience serving as the ultimate escalation point for critical, high-pressure, enterprise-level issues.
- Epic certifications in one or more relevant modules.
- Experience leading Epic upgrades, optimization initiatives, or major go-lives as an executive sponsor or accountable senior leader.
- Familiarity with interoperability standards, population health tools, and healthcare regulatory requirements (HIPAA, MU/Promoting Interoperability, etc.).
Preferred
- Experience representing an organization at Epic's Global User Conference (UGM/XGM) or comparable industry forums.
Reporting Relationship
Reports to Chief Health Informatics Offices and manages Directors, senior managers, and Epic analysts across the enterprise Epic organization.
Pay Range
The typical pay range for this role is:
$175,100.00 - $334,750.00
This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors. This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above. This position also includes an award target in the company’s equity award program.
Our people fuel our future. Our teams reflect the customers, patients, members and communities we serve and we are committed to fostering a workplace where every colleague feels valued and that they belong.
Great benefits for great people
We take pride in offering a comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits that reflects our commitment to our colleagues and their families.
This full-time position is eligible for a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial well-being of colleagues and their families. The benefits for this position include medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other resources, based on eligibility.
Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments.
We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 09/16/2026
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.
We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time.
Executive Director, Epic Applications
Position Summary
The Executive Director of Epic Applications provides enterprise-wide strategic and technical leadership for the organization's Epic electronic health record (EHR) platform, holding executive accountability for Epic strategy, investment, and delivery across the enterprise. This role leads a multi-tiered organization of Directors, senior managers, and analysts responsible for the design, build, and delivery of Epic solutions, and serves as the primary executive partner to the CHIO and business-unit leadership in aligning the Epic roadmap with organizational strategy. The Executive Director brings vast, hands-on EHR expertise (15+ years) spanning Acute Care, Primary Care, Pharmacy Services, Behavioral Health, and Accountable Care Organization (ACO) operations, and is accountable for the Epic platform's long-term vision, enterprise governance, vendor relationship, and financial portfolio, while driving innovation and continuous improvement across the full Epic ecosystem.
Key Responsibilities
Executive Leadership & Organizational Management
- Lead, mentor, and develop a multi-tiered organization of Directors, senior managers, and Epic analysts across all application areas, building leadership bench strength and long-term succession plans.
- Set the organizational structure, staffing strategy, and capability roadmap for the enterprise Epic function, including build-vs-buy and internal-vs-partner staffing decisions.
- Own performance management, career development, and organizational culture for the Epic organization, fostering accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning at every level.
- Serve as a member of the senior IT/clinical informatics leadership team, contributing to enterprise technology strategy beyond the Epic platform.
Enterprise Build & Delivery
- Own enterprise-wide accountability for Epic build activities, architecture standards, and technical governance, ensuring designs meet clinical, operational, regulatory, and enterprise-architecture requirements.
- Direct, design and own delivery for large-scale, highly visible cross functional and interdependent Enterprise projects.
- Establish, own, and evolve strategic tech alignment, build standards, testing protocols, and change control processes across the full Epic portfolio.
- Oversee system upgrades, module implementations, and integration efforts.
Executive Stakeholder & Business Partnership
- Serve as the senior executive point of contact and trusted advisor for all Epic IT initiatives across the enterprise, including C-suite and board-level engagement.
- Forge and maintain strategic relationships with physician executives, operational leadership, and business partners across Acute Care, Primary Care, Pharmacy, Behavioral Health, and ACO/population health teams.
- Translate enterprise business and clinical needs into actionable technology strategy and prioritized roadmaps.
- Present portfolio status, risk, and outcomes to executive leadership, governance committees, and the board as needed.
Issue & Enterprise Risk Management
- Act as the escalation point for critical issues, system outages, and cross-team conflicts related to Epic.
- Drive enterprise root cause analysis practices and ensure timely, sustainable resolution of high-impact, high-visibility problems.
- Own proactive enterprise risk identification across interdependent programs and direct mitigation strategy at the portfolio level.
Innovation & Enterprise Strategy
- Set the enterprise strategy for streamlining workflows, reducing technical debt, and modernizing the Epic technology stack.
- Maintain current point of view on Epic roadmap releases, industry trends, and emerging tools (e.g., automation, interoperability, AI-enabled workflows), and assess applicability to the organization.
- Champion enterprise-wide standardization, best practices, and platform maturity across all Epic applications and business lines.
Qualifications
Required
- 15+ years of progressive EHR/Epic experience, including significant time in Epic build, design, and senior/executive leadership roles.
- Demonstrated experience leading multi-tiered organizations, including Directors and senior managers, in a large, matrixed healthcare IT environment.
- Vast, hands-on knowledge of Epic applications across Acute Care, Ambulatory/Primary Care, Pharmacy (Willow), and Behavioral Health (Beacon or equivalent) from a technology/build perspective.
- Experience supporting ACO, value-based care, or population health technology initiatives at an enterprise scale.
- Proven track record owning large, cross-functional, highly visible programs with multiple interdependencies and enterprise-level risk.
- Strong executive presence with a demonstrated track record presenting to and influencing C-suite, board, and physician executive stakeholders.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and experience serving as the ultimate escalation point for critical, high-pressure, enterprise-level issues.
- Epic certifications in one or more relevant modules.
- Experience leading Epic upgrades, optimization initiatives, or major go-lives as an executive sponsor or accountable senior leader.
- Familiarity with interoperability standards, population health tools, and healthcare regulatory requirements (HIPAA, MU/Promoting Interoperability, etc.).
Preferred
- Experience representing an organization at Epic's Global User Conference (UGM/XGM) or comparable industry forums.
Reporting Relationship
Reports to Chief Health Informatics Offices and manages Directors, senior managers, and Epic analysts across the enterprise Epic organization.
Pay Range
The typical pay range for this role is:
$175,100.00 - $334,750.00
This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors. This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above. This position also includes an award target in the company’s equity award program.
Our people fuel our future. Our teams reflect the customers, patients, members and communities we serve and we are committed to fostering a workplace where every colleague feels valued and that they belong.
Great benefits for great people
We take pride in offering a comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits that reflects our commitment to our colleagues and their families.
This full-time position is eligible for a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial well-being of colleagues and their families. The benefits for this position include medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other resources, based on eligibility.
Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments.
We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 09/16/2026
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding E-3 Visa Sponsorship in Application Development Lead
Frame your credentials for U.S. specialty occupation
Your Australian three-year bachelor's degree is generally accepted as equivalent to a U.S. four-year degree, but document the equivalency explicitly. A credential evaluation letter strengthens your LCA and consulate packet before any employer conversation begins.
Target employers with existing LCA filing history
Search the DOL's Foreign Labor Application Gateway disclosure data for companies that have filed LCAs for software development or engineering leadership roles. Prior filing history signals the employer already understands E-3 visa sponsorship mechanics, which reduces delays after an offer.
Clarify lead versus individual contributor in job descriptions
Application Development Lead titles vary widely. Some postings describe an individual contributor with a senior title. Confirm the role involves directing application architecture or managing developers, since a clearly supervisory or technical lead scope strengthens the specialty occupation case at your consulate interview.
Address E-3 visa sponsorship early in negotiations
Raise E-3 sponsorship before the offer stage, not after. Explain that no lottery exists and no government cap applies, which removes the biggest objection U.S. hiring managers have when they confuse the E-3 with the H-1B visa process.
Use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service for your LCA and paperwork
Once you have an offer, the LCA must be certified by DOL before your consulate appointment. Use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service to handle your LCA and visa paperwork end-to-end, so you're not coordinating between your employer's HR team and the consulate on your own.
Prepare a project portfolio aligned to the LCA job description
Consular officers assess whether your background matches the certified role. Bring a concise portfolio showing application architecture decisions, team leadership, and delivery outcomes that map directly to the job duties listed in your certified LCA.
E-3 Visa Application Development Lead: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I find Application Development Lead jobs that offer E-3 visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for Australian professionals searching for U.S. roles with E-3 sponsorship. You can filter by job title and see employers with active or prior E-3 and LCA filing history, which removes the guesswork of cold-applying to companies that have never sponsored an Australian hire.
How much does it cost to get an E-3 visa?
Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service covers the entire process for $499, including the Labor Condition Application, visa document preparation, and consulate appointment guidance. Traditional immigration lawyers charge $2,000–$5,000+ for the same work. The E-3 has less paperwork than most work visas, so paying thousands for legal help is usually unnecessary.
Does an Application Development Lead role qualify as a specialty occupation for the E-3?
Yes, provided the role requires a bachelor's degree or higher in a specific technical field such as computer science, software engineering, or information systems. Roles that accept any degree regardless of field, or that treat a degree as preferred rather than required, create specialty occupation risk at the consulate interview. The job description and LCA must reflect a genuine degree requirement tied to the work.
How does the E-3 compare to the H-1B for an Application Development Lead?
The E-3 has no annual cap and no lottery, so you can apply at any time of year and start work as soon as your visa is issued. The H-1B is capped at 85,000 slots annually with a randomized selection process, meaning even a strong candidate may wait years for approval. For an Australian professional, the E-3 is the direct path without that uncertainty.
Can I change employers or take a new Application Development Lead role while on E-3 status?
Yes, but each new employer must file a fresh LCA with DOL and you'll need a new E-3 visa stamp if you travel internationally after switching. You can begin with the new employer once their LCA is certified and you have the supporting documentation ready, though you cannot carry over the prior employer's LCA. Coordinate timing carefully if your current visa stamp is close to expiry.