[Hiring] Managing Director, Corporate Functions Technology @The Cigna Group

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 designed to evolve, potentially including Finance and enterprise shared services as business priorities change. 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
• 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

• Technology Strategy and Business Partnership:
  • Own technology strategy, product roadmaps, investment priorities, and execution across the assigned Corporate Functions portfolio.
  • Establish strong partnerships with the General Counsel's organization, Legal Operations, Finance, Corporate Functions, and Technology leaders.
  • 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.
• Legal and Corporate Functions Technology:
  • 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.
  • Establish an integrated perspective across Legal technologies.
  • Lead technology modernization and simplification of the Legal ecosystem.
• Product and Operating Model Transformation:
  • Organize the portfolio around durable product teams.
  • Establish accountability within Corporate Functions capabilities.
  • Implement product management disciplines.
  • Drive measurable outcomes and evidence-based prioritization.
  • Balance strategic modernization with near-term business commitments.
• Architecture and Engineering:
  • Define and deliver the target-state architecture for the portfolio.
  • Provide senior leadership for full-stack engineering.
  • Ensure technology solutions achieve appropriate levels of scalability, resilience, maintainability, security, performance, usability, and cost efficiency.
  • Promote reusable architectures, services, APIs, and engineering patterns.
  • Drive modern engineering disciplines.
• AI, Automation, Contract Intelligence, and Innovation:
  • Establish and execute an AI and automation strategy.
  • Identify and prioritize high-value AI opportunities.
  • Move promising AI capabilities into secure, scalable production solutions.
  • Partner with enterprise functions to ensure responsible implementation of AI solutions.
  • Build AI fluency across product and engineering teams.
• Market and Technology Leadership:
  • Maintain strong awareness of developments across enterprise technology.
  • Continuously evaluate new products, technologies, partners, and operating models.
  • Sponsor rapid prototypes, proofs of concept, and MVPs.
  • Bring external technology perspectives to senior leadership.
• Talent and Organizational Leadership:
  • Build, develop, and retain a high-performing organization.
  • Develop technology leaders capable of managing durable products.
  • Assess workforce capabilities and build or acquire necessary skills.
  • Foster a culture of accountability, technical excellence, and continuous learning.
  • Provide coaching, mentoring, and career development for technology talent.
• Portfolio, Financial, and Vendor Management:
  • Own financial management for the technology portfolio.
  • Develop and execute sourcing and vendor strategies.
  • Lead strategic build-versus-buy decisions.
  • Manage strategic vendor relationships and contract performance.
• Technology Risk, Security, and Operational Excellence:
  • Ensure operational stability, resiliency, security, and regulatory requirements.
  • Partner with various functions to manage technology and information risk.
  • Maintain accountability for production health and operational performance.
  • Identify and proactively address technology risks.

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 operating models.
• Experience 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 platforms preferred.
• Healthcare or financial services technology experience preferred.
• Strong financial, portfolio, and vendor-management skills.
• Ability to communicate complex technical topics to senior non-technical audiences.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health-related benefits including medical, vision, and dental.
• 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.