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From the employer's careers site First seen 11 Nov 2026

PBM Product & Platform Engineering Director

The Cigna Group executive full-time

Salary

170,500 - 284,100 USD / yearly

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Description

The PBM Product & Platform Engineering Director will lead a Software Engineering team that delivers innovative healthcare technology solutions. The Director will report to the VP, Technology Delivery for the New PBM Platform and will be accountable for implementation and operational execution across assigned core services.

Core Responsibilities Include

  • Translate the New PBM Platform roadmap into executable engineering plans
  • Lead design, development, integration, release, and production-readiness activities
  • Ensure solutions meet functional, performance, scalability, reliability, recovery, security, privacy, and compliance expectations
  • Drive disciplined engineering practices and technical decision-making
  • Partner with Product Management and Product Architecture to own the engineering half of the specification
  • Coordinate dependencies across product domains, platform teams, and enterprise integrations
  • Establish metrics for delivery predictability, throughput, quality, reliability, and operational performance
  • Lead resolution of critical technical issues and production risks
  • Build, lead, and develop a high-performing organization of engineers and technical professionals

Critical Leadership Competencies

  • Drives Vision and Purpose
  • Delivers Results
  • Manages Complexity
  • Decision Quality
  • Collaborates
  • Communicates Effectively
  • Manages Ambiguity
  • Instills Trust
  • Builds Effective Teams
  • Directs Work

Critical Technology Competencies

  • Deep practical experience designing, building, and supporting enterprise software platforms
  • Strong knowledge of cloud-native engineering, APIs, distributed systems, and scalable application design
  • Experience with modern programming languages, software-development frameworks, CI/CD, and secure engineering practices

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information technology, or equivalent required; advanced degree preferred
  • 12+ years of progressive software engineering or technology experience
  • Demonstrated experience leading enterprise-scale application, platform, or product engineering teams
  • Proven record of delivering complex technology capabilities from strategy and design through production operations

The anticipated salary for this position is 170,500 - 284,100 USD per year, depending on relevant factors, including experience and geographic location. This role is also anticipated to be eligible to participate in an annual bonus and long-term incentive plan.

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Skills

Required

  • cloud-native engineering
  • APIs
  • distributed systems
  • scalable application design
  • modern programming languages
  • software-development frameworks
  • CI/CD
  • secure engineering practices

Nice to have

  • healthcare
  • pharmacy benefit management
  • regulated technology
  • high-volume transaction-processing environments

Ready to apply?

You apply with the employer directly. Their original posting is here: https://cigna.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/cignacareers/job/Newton-MA/PBM-Product---Platform-Engineering-Director_26012685

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