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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.
Position Summary
CVS Health Specialty Pharmacy Engineering team is looking for a hands-on, passionate people leader who want to join a high energy and growing team to make a difference in customers’ lives and who want to be on the forefront of digital innovation that aims to reinvent what a pharmacy and a health care company can be in the digital world.
We are seeking an experienced Lead Director – Software Development Engineering, who will be accountable for building and executing the Solutions for Specialty Pharmacy focusing on Operational efficiency, value stream savings and roadmaps for multiyear forward looking technology strategy.
This technology leader will join forces with business (Strategy and Operations) and product leaders to plan, build, execute and deliver a multiyear roadmap for modernization which will drive our business and technology strategy forward.
This Lead Director will lead a diverse team of technology associates across engineering and change management teams and be someone who will work across multiple geographies to deliver software engineering work, delivered through multiple disciplined, Agile software releases each year.
The Lead Director will also be accountable for driving the technology strategy in support of these value streams, as well as be responsible for design, development, testing, delivery, and growth while also ensuring all opportunities to build industry leading technology assets are fully realized.
Expectations for the Role
- Lead the strategy and creation of a multiyear modernization roadmap to support Specialty Pharmacy value streams
- Lead the design, foundational framework and development of Specialty pharmacy products and associated technology assets
- Assess software engineering practices, driving continuous improvement, improving operational efficiency, time to market and overall product quality
- Lead engineering teams, guiding and mentoring them in implementing solutions across a wide range of technological platforms
- People management including hiring, performance management, team building, leading career growth and skill development through coaching, and setting measurable professional goals
- Build and cultivate strong relationships with Business, Product and Technology partners to support the delivery roadmap
- Build relationships and partnerships with vendors to build contingent teams working onshore and offshore/nearshore to support our staffing needs
- Build relationships and partnerships with solution vendors in support of our technological needs
- Conduct technology research and innovation to develop a long-term strategy based on emerging trends in healthcare and technology industries
- Up to 10% travel expected within the United States on a need basis
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 10+ years of overall Software Development experience utilizing Agile methodologies
- 7+ years of experience in development of microservices using python, java [spring boot]
- 5+ years of experience in containerization tools and technologies such as Kubernetes, docker etc.
- At least 3+ years of experience in cloud platforms (GCP preferred)
- At least 1+ years of experience using Agentic AI frameworks and generative AI based web-services and tools
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in hiring, leading high performing distributed multi-sited / remote software engineering teams
- Experience in performance management, team building, leading career growth and skill development through coaching, and setting measurable professional goals etc.
- Strong problem-solving abilities and a data-driven mindset
- Experience in defining and analyzing KPIs to measure project success
- Out of the box thinker and implementor with open source publicly visible work on GitHub
- Experience in understanding AI/ML algorithms, frameworks, and tools
- Experience working with distributed teams, working across multiple time zones and geographical locations.
- Experience conceiving and building healthcare or wellness products
- Experience in Healthcare or Pharmacy domain
- Experience working with onshore and offshore technology resources from vendors
Education
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience (HS diploma + 4 years relevant experience)
BUSINESS OVERVIEW
Bring your heart to CVS Health Every one of us at CVS Health shares a single, clear purpose: Bringing our heart to every moment of your health. This purpose guides our commitment to deliver enhanced human-centric health care for a rapidly changing world. Anchored in our brand — with heart at its center — our purpose sends a personal message that how we deliver our services is just as important as what we deliver. Our Heart At Work Behaviors™ support this purpose. We want everyone who works at CVS Health to feel empowered by the role they play in transforming our culture and accelerating our ability to innovate and deliver solutions to make health care more personal, convenient and affordable. We strive to promote and sustain a culture of diversity, inclusion and belonging every day. CVS Health is an affirmative action employer, and is an equal opportunity employer, as are the physician-owned businesses for which CVS Health provides management services. We do not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, promotion, or any other personnel action based on race, ethnicity, color, national origin, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. We proudly support and encourage people with military experience (active, veterans, reservists and National Guard) as well as military spouses to apply for CVS Health job opportunities.
Pay Range
The typical pay range for this role is:
$144,200.00 - $288,400.00
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: 08/28/2026
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.
Position Summary
CVS Health Specialty Pharmacy Engineering team is looking for a hands-on, passionate people leader who want to join a high energy and growing team to make a difference in customers’ lives and who want to be on the forefront of digital innovation that aims to reinvent what a pharmacy and a health care company can be in the digital world.
We are seeking an experienced Lead Director – Software Development Engineering, who will be accountable for building and executing the Solutions for Specialty Pharmacy focusing on Operational efficiency, value stream savings and roadmaps for multiyear forward looking technology strategy.
This technology leader will join forces with business (Strategy and Operations) and product leaders to plan, build, execute and deliver a multiyear roadmap for modernization which will drive our business and technology strategy forward.
This Lead Director will lead a diverse team of technology associates across engineering and change management teams and be someone who will work across multiple geographies to deliver software engineering work, delivered through multiple disciplined, Agile software releases each year.
The Lead Director will also be accountable for driving the technology strategy in support of these value streams, as well as be responsible for design, development, testing, delivery, and growth while also ensuring all opportunities to build industry leading technology assets are fully realized.
Expectations for the Role
- Lead the strategy and creation of a multiyear modernization roadmap to support Specialty Pharmacy value streams
- Lead the design, foundational framework and development of Specialty pharmacy products and associated technology assets
- Assess software engineering practices, driving continuous improvement, improving operational efficiency, time to market and overall product quality
- Lead engineering teams, guiding and mentoring them in implementing solutions across a wide range of technological platforms
- People management including hiring, performance management, team building, leading career growth and skill development through coaching, and setting measurable professional goals
- Build and cultivate strong relationships with Business, Product and Technology partners to support the delivery roadmap
- Build relationships and partnerships with vendors to build contingent teams working onshore and offshore/nearshore to support our staffing needs
- Build relationships and partnerships with solution vendors in support of our technological needs
- Conduct technology research and innovation to develop a long-term strategy based on emerging trends in healthcare and technology industries
- Up to 10% travel expected within the United States on a need basis
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 10+ years of overall Software Development experience utilizing Agile methodologies
- 7+ years of experience in development of microservices using python, java [spring boot]
- 5+ years of experience in containerization tools and technologies such as Kubernetes, docker etc.
- At least 3+ years of experience in cloud platforms (GCP preferred)
- At least 1+ years of experience using Agentic AI frameworks and generative AI based web-services and tools
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in hiring, leading high performing distributed multi-sited / remote software engineering teams
- Experience in performance management, team building, leading career growth and skill development through coaching, and setting measurable professional goals etc.
- Strong problem-solving abilities and a data-driven mindset
- Experience in defining and analyzing KPIs to measure project success
- Out of the box thinker and implementor with open source publicly visible work on GitHub
- Experience in understanding AI/ML algorithms, frameworks, and tools
- Experience working with distributed teams, working across multiple time zones and geographical locations.
- Experience conceiving and building healthcare or wellness products
- Experience in Healthcare or Pharmacy domain
- Experience working with onshore and offshore technology resources from vendors
Education
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience (HS diploma + 4 years relevant experience)
BUSINESS OVERVIEW
Bring your heart to CVS Health Every one of us at CVS Health shares a single, clear purpose: Bringing our heart to every moment of your health. This purpose guides our commitment to deliver enhanced human-centric health care for a rapidly changing world. Anchored in our brand — with heart at its center — our purpose sends a personal message that how we deliver our services is just as important as what we deliver. Our Heart At Work Behaviors™ support this purpose. We want everyone who works at CVS Health to feel empowered by the role they play in transforming our culture and accelerating our ability to innovate and deliver solutions to make health care more personal, convenient and affordable. We strive to promote and sustain a culture of diversity, inclusion and belonging every day. CVS Health is an affirmative action employer, and is an equal opportunity employer, as are the physician-owned businesses for which CVS Health provides management services. We do not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, promotion, or any other personnel action based on race, ethnicity, color, national origin, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. We proudly support and encourage people with military experience (active, veterans, reservists and National Guard) as well as military spouses to apply for CVS Health job opportunities.
Pay Range
The typical pay range for this role is:
$144,200.00 - $288,400.00
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: 08/28/2026
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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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in software engineering manager jobs.
- 5+ years of engineering experience with 2+ years managing engineering teams
- Proven ability to hire, develop, and retain software engineers
- Experience driving agile or scrum delivery across multiple sprint teams
- Strong technical background in software architecture and system design
- Cross-functional collaboration with product, design, and data stakeholders
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field
Tips for Your Software Engineering Manager Job Search
Quantify your engineering team impact
Hiring managers want to see numbers behind your leadership, not just titles. On your resume, call out team size, delivery velocity improvements, and retention outcomes you drove directly. Vague claims about 'leading teams' get skipped.
Highlight technical depth alongside management
Many software engineering manager roles expect you to stay hands-on enough to review architecture decisions. Make your resume show both the managerial and the technical layer, or you risk being filtered out for roles that want a player-coach, not a pure people manager.
Target openings by engineering org size
A software engineering manager role at a 20-person startup and a 5,000-person company require completely different skills. Filter openings by company stage so your application speaks directly to the scope of management they actually need.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists software engineering manager openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Prepare for the engineering manager loop
Expect rounds covering behavioral leadership scenarios, system design at a high level, and cross-functional collaboration. Practice narrating past incidents where you unblocked your team, handled underperformance, or made a technical tradeoff call under pressure.
Negotiate scope before you negotiate salary
Before accepting an offer, clarify team size, reporting structure, and whether the role is a backfill or a new headcount. These details define your actual leverage and day-to-day authority far more than the title itself does.
Software Engineering Manager Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most software engineering managers?
The companies hiring the most software engineering managers right now include CVS Health, JPMorganChase, and Google, with the largest share of openings in California, Texas, and Washington, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. Demand is especially high at companies scaling their engineering orgs through new product lines or infrastructure buildouts.
How many software engineering manager jobs are remote?
About 54% of software engineering manager openings are fully remote or hybrid as of August 2026, reflecting a role that often requires in-person presence for team rituals and performance conversations. Platform and infrastructure management sub-areas tend to attract the highest share of fully remote postings compared to consumer-facing product engineering teams.
How do you become a software engineering manager?
Most software engineering managers move into the role from a senior or staff individual contributor position after demonstrating informal leadership, such as mentoring engineers, leading project delivery, or running on-call rotations. From there, the path typically involves taking on a formal lead role on a small team, building a record of hiring and growing engineers, and developing skills in roadmap planning and cross-functional communication.
Can you get a software engineering manager job with little management experience?
Yes, especially at smaller companies or startups that need a first engineering manager on a growing team. If your direct management experience is limited, emphasize informal leadership you have already done, such as leading a project, onboarding junior engineers, or acting as a tech lead. Targeting roles explicitly labeled as 'first-time manager' or 'lead to manager' positions improves your odds significantly.
What does the software engineering manager interview process look like?
The process typically starts with a recruiter screen, followed by a hiring manager conversation about your leadership philosophy and team experience. From there, expect a technical discussion covering system design and how you approach engineering standards, plus a behavioral loop with cross-functional stakeholders focused on conflict resolution, prioritization, and how you develop engineers. Final rounds often include a presentation or a case study on a past team challenge.
Where can I find and apply to software engineering manager jobs?
You can find and apply to software engineering manager jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from companies across the United States. Search the openings to find roles that match your experience and location preferences, then apply directly to each listing that fits.
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