Engineering Management Director-Work from home

The Engineering Management Director manages work streams within the Cigna + Oscar program. This role serves as an IT Lead and is responsible for coordination across a diverse set of internal and external stakeholders towards high quality delivery of project objectives while meeting scope, schedule, and financial targets and managing all stakeholder expectations throughout.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for success of cross-organizational program level initiatives both internally and externally with Oscar
• Provide in-depth technical consultation to business partners and technology leadership.
• Continuously optimize plans within resource and time constraints to achieve project objectives.
• Partner with Cigna work stream business leads and Oscar leadership to successfully deliver technology scope components
• Influence to foster collaboration among matrixed team members/colleagues across business and technology amid varied dynamics across multiple teams, companies, and organizational cultures to ensure successful outcomes.
• Provide leadership to support agile teams by handling impediments and potential roadblocks.
• Provide oversight of development teams to meet critical milestones and deliverables that are time and scope boxed.
• Lead and participate in process improvement and cross-functional technology initiatives.
• Report key performance metrics to technology leadership team.
• Manage and execute program and cross-work stream risk mitigation and contingency plans.
• Manage and execute program and cross-work stream dependencies.
• Manage and facilitate definition and refinement of portfolio epics
• Monitor definition and refinement of program epics, features, and user story program from the Value Streams and Platform Groups.
• Ensures appropriate release plans and status is reflected in Rally/Jira.
• Evaluate and effectively communicate progress results, risks issues, and needs to internal and external stakeholders.
• Holding resources accountable for delivering on the project plan, including providing coaching and mentoring of resources.
• Shares knowledge and experience to contribute to growth of overall team and organizational capabilities that can be applied to future large scale program deliveries.

Qualifications:

• Ability to balance approach to political, technological and administrative factors.
• Must be equally strong in planning, executing and closing of projects.
• Competency in adapting and proving in high paced, challenging, changing and ambiguous situations.
• Attention to details, ability to drive results and act independently with little direction.
• Advanced problem solving skills and the ability to work collaboratively to work through complex matters with innovative solutions, including TPL partners, business partners, operations partners and enterprise technology partners.
• Demonstrated ability to manage and deliver large scale and cross functional efforts.
• Ability to manage a financial budget/portfolio across teams.
• Ability to adapt in a dynamic work environment and make independent decisions.
• Experience working in the agile framework.
• Ability to focus on reliability and scalability across capabilities.
• Ability to effectively communicate ideas to team members with varying levels of technical expertise.
• Skilled to manage multiple high impact enterprise wide projects and satisfy requirements from multiple customers/stakeholders.
• The ability to quickly understand concepts and drill down into actionable steps.
• Skilled understanding of project management tools, techniques, request acceptance criteria, artifact development and reporting.
• Solid understanding of business functional areas and management issues as well as IT organizations systems and capabilities.
• Superior written and verbal communication skills.
• Must have strong working knowledge of SDLC and methodologies like; Agile and Waterfall
• Must have strong working knowledge of MS office, Visio, Project and SharePoint.
• Must have high level of organization skills, which includes, identifying stakeholders, arranging/managing meetings and follow-ups.
• Must have ability to navigate day-to-day activities with an eye towards the bigger picture to identify and manage risks and issues proactively.
• Education: - Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience

• Experience: 10-12 years' experience in software engineering/delivery

For this position, we anticipate offering an annual salary of $148,900 - $248,100, 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.

Helping our customers achieve healthier, more secure lives is at the heart of what we do. While you take care of our customers, we'll take care of you through a comprehensive benefits program that helps you be at your best. Starting on day one of your employment, you'll be offered several health-related benefits including medical, vision, dental, and best in class well-being and behavioral health programs. We also offer 401(k) with company match, company paid life insurance, tuition reimbursement, a minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year and dozens of corporate discounts on essentials you use every day. For more details on our employee benefits programs, please visit the "Life at Cigna" tab on our careersite: www.cigna.com/careers

About Evernorth

Evernorth, Cigna Corporation's health services segment, exists to elevate health for all. We're building on our legacy and redefining health care as we know it. Unbiased in how we think, we create without limitation. We partner without constraints, deliver value differently and act in the interest of humanity. Solving across silos, closing gaps in care, and empowering clients, customers, and people everywhere to move onward and upward. When you work with us, you'll be empowered to solve the problems others don't, won't or can't. Join us. What difference will you make?

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, age, disability, sex, childbirth (including pregnancy) or related medical conditions including but not limited to lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital or familial status, genetic information, status with regard to public assistance, citizenship status or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.

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Cigna has a tobacco-free policy and reserves the right not to hire tobacco/nicotine users in states where that is legally permissible. Candidates in such states who use tobacco/nicotine will not be considered for employment unless they enter a qualifying smoking cessation program prior to the start of their employment. These states include: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Washington State.