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Remote Engineering Director jobs are in active demand across the U.S., with remote-first firms and distributed engineering teams hiring for this role in software, fintech, healthcare technology, and enterprise SaaS. Employers hiring remotely right now include CVS Health, ŌURA, and Ceribell. See the openings below and apply to the ones that match your experience.
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The Director, Enterprise Quality Engineering carries out procedures to ensure that all information systems products and services meet organization standards and end-user requirements. The Director, Quality Engineering requires an in-depth understanding of how organization capabilities interrelate across the function or segment. The Director, Enterprise Quality Engineering – Enterprise Cross-Platform Quality Validation & Integration Engineering will lead the enterprise orchestration of cross-platform quality validation, integration assurance, and end-to-end business workflow certification. This role is accountable for ensuring critical business processes operate reliably across segments, platforms, applications, APIs, data flows, environments, and release events.
This is a technical leadership role with a hands-on expectation. The Director will be expected to understand modern engineering practices deeply, engage directly in validation strategy and technical problem-solving, review quality approaches, assess automation and monitoring patterns, and guide teams through complex integration, reliability, and production quality challenges.
The leader will leverage AI-enabled quality engineering practices to improve validation intelligence, accelerate test design, strengthen defect and risk prediction, enhance synthetic monitoring, and increase the effectiveness of enterprise release certification. This role will partner closely with Quality Engineering, Product, Engineering, Architecture, Platform Engineering, DevOps, Operations, Environment Management, and segment technology leaders to improve release confidence, production reliability, and enterprise quality outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead enterprise quality validation strategy for end-to-end business workflows, cross-platform integrations, and multi-segment technology initiatives.
- Establish standards and operating models for integration assurance, release certification, automation, resiliency testing, and production quality validation.
- Provide technical leadership for complex validation scenarios, including dependency mapping, risk-based test planning, automation strategy, test data needs, and environment readiness.
- Partner across engineering, architecture, product, DevOps, release management, operations, cybersecurity, and platform teams to manage quality risks, resolve defects, and improve release readiness.
- Advance automation-first and AI-enabled quality engineering practices to improve test planning, defect analysis, risk prediction, release confidence, and quality insights.
- Own enterprise release certification, including readiness criteria, quality gates, executive reporting, risk escalation, and go/no-go recommendations.
- Drive reliability, resiliency, synthetic monitoring, smoke testing, post-release validation, and production quality practices for critical workflows and integrations.
- Define quality metrics, dashboards, and governance routines to provide visibility into validation progress, dependency risk, defect trends, release readiness, and production outcomes.
- Build and develop a high-performing quality engineering team while fostering a culture of technical excellence, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
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Required Qualifications
- 12+ years of experience in quality engineering, software engineering, test engineering, systems integration, technology delivery, or related technical disciplines.
- 5+ years of leadership experience managing technical teams or enterprise-scale quality engineering capabilities.
- Proven experience leading end-to-end testing, integration testing, release validation, or enterprise quality certification in complex environments.
- Hands-on knowledge of test strategy, automation, integration validation, production validation, defect analysis, risk assessment, Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, release management, and production readiness.
- Experience validating complex workflows across applications, platforms, APIs, data flows, and distributed systems, including reliability, resiliency, synthetic monitoring, observability, or operational readiness practices.
- Experience leveraging data, analytics, automation, or AI-enabled practices to improve quality insights, test effectiveness, risk detection, and release readiness.
- Strong executive communication, stakeholder management, analytical, problem-solving, and influencing skills in a matrixed environment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in healthcare, insurance, financial services, or another regulated industry.
- Experience with enterprise transformation, platform modernization, cloud migration, or digital product delivery initiatives.
- Familiarity with modern architectures, including microservices, APIs, event-driven architecture, cloud-native platforms, data pipelines, and distributed systems.
- Experience with test automation, service virtualization, test data management, environment management, observability, synthetic monitoring, production validation, or operational readiness.
- Experience using AI-enabled tools, intelligent automation, quality metrics, dashboards, scorecards, or executive readiness reporting.
- Familiarity with enterprise release governance, change management, compliance, secure software delivery, and operational risk controls.
Work-At-Home Requirements
To ensure Home or Hybrid Home/Office associates’ ability to work effectively, the self-provided internet service of Home or Hybrid Home/Office associates must meet the following criteria:
- At minimum, a download speed of 25 Mbps and an upload speed of 10 Mbps is recommended; wireless, wired cable or DSL connection is suggested.
- Satellite, cellular and microwave connection can be used only if approved by leadership.
- Associates who live and work from Home in the state of California, Illinois, Montana, or South Dakota will be provided a bi-weekly payment for their internet expense.
- Humana will provide Home or Hybrid Home/Office associates with telephone equipment appropriate to meet the business requirements for their position/job.
- Work from a dedicated space lacking ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information.
Travel: While this is a remote position, occasional travel to Humana's offices for training or meetings may be required.
Scheduled Weekly Hours
40
Pay Range
The compensation range below reflects a good faith estimate of starting base pay for full time (40 hours per week) employment at the time of posting. The pay range may be higher or lower based on geographic location and individual pay will vary based on demonstrated job related skills, knowledge, experience, education, certifications, etc.
$156,600 - $215,400 per year
This job is eligible for a bonus incentive plan. This incentive opportunity is based upon company and/or individual performance.
Description of Benefits
Humana, Inc. and its affiliated subsidiaries (collectively, “Humana”) offers competitive benefits that support whole-person well-being. Associate benefits are designed to encourage personal wellness and smart healthcare decisions for you and your family while also knowing your life extends outside of work. Among our benefits, Humana provides medical, dental and vision benefits, 401(k) retirement savings plan, time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, volunteer time off, paid parental and caregiver leave), short-term and long-term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.
About us
About Humana: Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is a leading U.S. healthcare company. Through our Humana insurance services and our CenterWell healthcare services, we make it easier for the millions of people we serve to achieve their best health – delivering the care and service they need, when they need it. These efforts are leading to a better quality of life for people with Medicare and Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large. Learn more about what we offer at Humana.com and at CenterWell.com.
Equal Opportunity Employer
It is the policy of Humana not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status. It is also the policy of Humana to take affirmative action, in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and VEVRAA, to employ and to advance in employment individuals with disability or protected veteran status, and to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. This policy shall apply to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation and selection for training, including apprenticeship, at all levels of employment.
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The Director, Enterprise Quality Engineering carries out procedures to ensure that all information systems products and services meet organization standards and end-user requirements. The Director, Quality Engineering requires an in-depth understanding of how organization capabilities interrelate across the function or segment. The Director, Enterprise Quality Engineering – Enterprise Cross-Platform Quality Validation & Integration Engineering will lead the enterprise orchestration of cross-platform quality validation, integration assurance, and end-to-end business workflow certification. This role is accountable for ensuring critical business processes operate reliably across segments, platforms, applications, APIs, data flows, environments, and release events.
This is a technical leadership role with a hands-on expectation. The Director will be expected to understand modern engineering practices deeply, engage directly in validation strategy and technical problem-solving, review quality approaches, assess automation and monitoring patterns, and guide teams through complex integration, reliability, and production quality challenges.
The leader will leverage AI-enabled quality engineering practices to improve validation intelligence, accelerate test design, strengthen defect and risk prediction, enhance synthetic monitoring, and increase the effectiveness of enterprise release certification. This role will partner closely with Quality Engineering, Product, Engineering, Architecture, Platform Engineering, DevOps, Operations, Environment Management, and segment technology leaders to improve release confidence, production reliability, and enterprise quality outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead enterprise quality validation strategy for end-to-end business workflows, cross-platform integrations, and multi-segment technology initiatives.
- Establish standards and operating models for integration assurance, release certification, automation, resiliency testing, and production quality validation.
- Provide technical leadership for complex validation scenarios, including dependency mapping, risk-based test planning, automation strategy, test data needs, and environment readiness.
- Partner across engineering, architecture, product, DevOps, release management, operations, cybersecurity, and platform teams to manage quality risks, resolve defects, and improve release readiness.
- Advance automation-first and AI-enabled quality engineering practices to improve test planning, defect analysis, risk prediction, release confidence, and quality insights.
- Own enterprise release certification, including readiness criteria, quality gates, executive reporting, risk escalation, and go/no-go recommendations.
- Drive reliability, resiliency, synthetic monitoring, smoke testing, post-release validation, and production quality practices for critical workflows and integrations.
- Define quality metrics, dashboards, and governance routines to provide visibility into validation progress, dependency risk, defect trends, release readiness, and production outcomes.
- Build and develop a high-performing quality engineering team while fostering a culture of technical excellence, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Use your skills to make an impact
Required Qualifications
- 12+ years of experience in quality engineering, software engineering, test engineering, systems integration, technology delivery, or related technical disciplines.
- 5+ years of leadership experience managing technical teams or enterprise-scale quality engineering capabilities.
- Proven experience leading end-to-end testing, integration testing, release validation, or enterprise quality certification in complex environments.
- Hands-on knowledge of test strategy, automation, integration validation, production validation, defect analysis, risk assessment, Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, release management, and production readiness.
- Experience validating complex workflows across applications, platforms, APIs, data flows, and distributed systems, including reliability, resiliency, synthetic monitoring, observability, or operational readiness practices.
- Experience leveraging data, analytics, automation, or AI-enabled practices to improve quality insights, test effectiveness, risk detection, and release readiness.
- Strong executive communication, stakeholder management, analytical, problem-solving, and influencing skills in a matrixed environment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in healthcare, insurance, financial services, or another regulated industry.
- Experience with enterprise transformation, platform modernization, cloud migration, or digital product delivery initiatives.
- Familiarity with modern architectures, including microservices, APIs, event-driven architecture, cloud-native platforms, data pipelines, and distributed systems.
- Experience with test automation, service virtualization, test data management, environment management, observability, synthetic monitoring, production validation, or operational readiness.
- Experience using AI-enabled tools, intelligent automation, quality metrics, dashboards, scorecards, or executive readiness reporting.
- Familiarity with enterprise release governance, change management, compliance, secure software delivery, and operational risk controls.
Work-At-Home Requirements
To ensure Home or Hybrid Home/Office associates’ ability to work effectively, the self-provided internet service of Home or Hybrid Home/Office associates must meet the following criteria:
- At minimum, a download speed of 25 Mbps and an upload speed of 10 Mbps is recommended; wireless, wired cable or DSL connection is suggested.
- Satellite, cellular and microwave connection can be used only if approved by leadership.
- Associates who live and work from Home in the state of California, Illinois, Montana, or South Dakota will be provided a bi-weekly payment for their internet expense.
- Humana will provide Home or Hybrid Home/Office associates with telephone equipment appropriate to meet the business requirements for their position/job.
- Work from a dedicated space lacking ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information.
Travel: While this is a remote position, occasional travel to Humana's offices for training or meetings may be required.
Scheduled Weekly Hours
40
Pay Range
The compensation range below reflects a good faith estimate of starting base pay for full time (40 hours per week) employment at the time of posting. The pay range may be higher or lower based on geographic location and individual pay will vary based on demonstrated job related skills, knowledge, experience, education, certifications, etc.
$156,600 - $215,400 per year
This job is eligible for a bonus incentive plan. This incentive opportunity is based upon company and/or individual performance.
Description of Benefits
Humana, Inc. and its affiliated subsidiaries (collectively, “Humana”) offers competitive benefits that support whole-person well-being. Associate benefits are designed to encourage personal wellness and smart healthcare decisions for you and your family while also knowing your life extends outside of work. Among our benefits, Humana provides medical, dental and vision benefits, 401(k) retirement savings plan, time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, volunteer time off, paid parental and caregiver leave), short-term and long-term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.
About us
About Humana: Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is a leading U.S. healthcare company. Through our Humana insurance services and our CenterWell healthcare services, we make it easier for the millions of people we serve to achieve their best health – delivering the care and service they need, when they need it. These efforts are leading to a better quality of life for people with Medicare and Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large. Learn more about what we offer at Humana.com and at CenterWell.com.
Equal Opportunity Employer
It is the policy of Humana not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status. It is also the policy of Humana to take affirmative action, in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and VEVRAA, to employ and to advance in employment individuals with disability or protected veteran status, and to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. This policy shall apply to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation and selection for training, including apprenticeship, at all levels of employment.
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Who's Hiring
- CVS Health52
- ŌURA6Ō
- Ceribell5
- Aledade4
- Humana3
Top Industries Hiring
- Healthcare & Medical Services58
- Technology & Software42
- Medical Devices7
- Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals7
- Consulting & Professional Services6
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote engineering director jobs.
- 10 or more years of software engineering experience with at least 5 in people management
- Proven ability to lead and develop multiple engineering teams or managers of managers
- Experience owning end-to-end delivery of large-scale technical systems or platforms
- Strong cross-functional collaboration with product, design, and executive stakeholders
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field
- Familiarity with agile delivery frameworks and engineering operational metrics such as DORA
Tips for Your Remote Engineering Director Job Search
Signal your remote leadership experience upfront
Remote employers scan for evidence that you've led distributed engineering teams before. Call out async practices, the time zones your teams covered, and the tools you used to keep delivery on track, like Notion, Linear, or Confluence, in your summary and role descriptions.
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote engineering director openings from companies across the U.S. in one place, so you can find roles that match your background and apply directly without sorting through mixed listings.
Prepare for async-first interview processes
Many remote-first companies run parts of their engineering director interviews through written take-homes, Loom video responses, or async technical assessments. Practice articulating your engineering philosophy and team decisions clearly in writing, not just in conversation.
Build a public record of technical leadership
Remote hiring teams can't meet you in a hallway. A public GitHub presence, engineering blog posts, or conference talks on distributed systems and team scaling give remote employers concrete evidence of how you think and communicate before the first call.
Target companies built for distributed engineering
Remote engineering director roles run more smoothly at companies that have always been remote rather than those adapting from an office model. Look for organizations that publish engineering blogs, open-source tooling, or distributed-team handbooks, since those signal a culture where remote directors actually have authority.
Remote Engineering Director Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote engineering director job?
Target remote-first companies and distributed-team organizations, since they have built the infrastructure for engineering leaders to operate without a physical office. Remote employers screen for strong async written communication, the ability to run engineering teams across time zones without constant meetings, and demonstrated self-direction. Candidates who highlight distributed team leadership, documentation habits, and remote incident response in their work history stand out.
Which companies hire remote engineering directors?
Remote engineering director roles are posted by CVS Health, ŌURA, and Ceribell and others right now, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of June 2026. Remote-first software companies, distributed SaaS teams, and technology-driven firms in fintech and healthcare consistently post engineering director openings that are fully remote.
Can you get a remote engineering director job with no experience?
Yes, but it's harder, because remote engineering director roles require you to lead teams and make technical decisions independently from day one without in-person support. Smaller remote-first startups and early-stage companies are more likely to hire candidates who show strong individual contributor results, clear technical writing, and a history of owning projects end-to-end, even without a formal director title.
Do you need a degree for remote engineering director jobs?
Not always. Remote employers for engineering director roles weigh demonstrated engineering leadership, a portfolio of shipped products or scaled systems, and the ability to manage distributed teams far more heavily than a specific degree. Many remote-first companies have dropped degree requirements in favor of practical assessments, technical interviews, and evidence of real engineering impact.
Which industries hire the most remote engineering directors?
Remote engineering director roles concentrate in Healthcare & Medical Services, Technology & Software, and Medical Devices, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of June 2026. These sectors hire engineering directors remotely because their products are digital, their teams are already distributed globally, and the role translates naturally to async, tool-driven coordination.
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