[Hiring] Managing Director, Corporate Functions Technology @Cigna Healthcare

Role Description

The Managing Director, Corporate Functions Technology is a senior technology leader responsible for defining and executing technology strategy, product roadmaps, engineering delivery, and modernization across a portfolio of critical Corporate Functions capabilities.

The initial portfolio will have a significant focus on Legal technology and enterprise collaboration, with responsibility for technology capabilities supporting:

• Legal Operations
• Regulatory and compliance activities
• Contract lifecycle management
• Contract ingestion and intelligence
• Legal matter and spend management
• Discovery and legal hold
• Knowledge management
• Collaboration, content, search, and AI-enabled productivity

The portfolio is intentionally designed to evolve. In addition to Legal and collaboration capabilities, this leader may assume responsibility for other Corporate Functions technology capabilities, including select Finance and enterprise shared services, as business priorities and the Corporate Technology operating model evolve.

The Managing Director will partner closely with senior leaders across various functions to establish an innovation-driven technology roadmap that simplifies the technology landscape, improves the user experience, and delivers measurable business outcomes.

A critical mandate of the role is to accelerate the transition from traditional project-based technology delivery toward durable, product-oriented teams and iterative, outcome-based ways of working.

Responsibilities

• Own technology strategy, product roadmaps, investment priorities, and execution across the assigned Corporate Functions portfolio.
• Establish strong partnerships with various organizations to jointly define business outcomes, technology priorities, investment roadmaps, and measures of success.
• Translate business strategy and capability needs into a multi-year technology strategy.
• Serve as a trusted technology advisor to senior business leadership.
• Create transparency around roadmap priorities, delivery progress, investment, dependencies, technology risk, and business outcomes.
• Provide technology leadership across Legal capabilities.
• Establish the technology strategy and capabilities for contract ingestion and intelligence.
• Partner across various Technology, Business, Legal, and relevant Corporate Functions.
• Lead technology modernization and simplification of the Legal ecosystem.
• Organize the portfolio around durable product teams aligned to business capabilities and value streams.
• Implement product management disciplines.
• Define and deliver the target-state architecture for the portfolio.
• Provide senior leadership for full-stack engineering and technical design.
• Establish and execute an AI and automation strategy across various capabilities.
• Maintain strong awareness of developments across enterprise technology.
• Build, develop, and retain a high-performing organization of product, engineering, architecture, and technology professionals.
• Own financial management for the technology portfolio.
• Ensure operational stability, resiliency, security, and regulatory requirements are incorporated into technology strategy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field required; advanced degree preferred.
• Significant technology leadership experience.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex, enterprise-scale technology portfolios.
• Proven ability to transition organizations to product-based, iterative, and outcome-oriented operating models.
• Experience jointly developing technology strategies with senior business executives.
• Experience building and leading high-performing technology teams.
• Legal technology experience preferred.
• Experience with contract lifecycle management preferred.
• Experience with enterprise collaboration or Finance technology is beneficial.
• Strong financial, portfolio, and vendor-management skills.
• Ability to communicate complex technical topics to senior non-technical audiences.

Requirements

• Demonstrate technical depth in modern full-stack engineering.
• Meaningful experience with AI/ML platforms and intelligent automation.
• Strong understanding of enterprise SaaS architecture.
• Experience establishing modern DevSecOps practices.
• Ability to evaluate trade-offs among custom development and commercial platforms.
• Strong understanding of non-functional architecture requirements.
• Ability to remain current with emerging technologies.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health-related benefits including medical, vision, dental, and well-being programs.
• 401(k) and company paid life insurance.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• A minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year.
• Paid holidays and leaves of absence.

Company Description

At The Cigna Group, we’re dedicated to improving the health and vitality of those we serve. Through our divisions Cigna Healthcare and Evernorth Health Services, we are committed to enhancing the lives of our clients, customers, and patients.