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The Director establishes the delivery system that connects product priorities, architecture decisions, engineering capacity, quality requirements, and release commitments, creating transparency and predictability across the Left Arm.\nThis leader will manage a team of delivery and project-management professionals and partner closely with Product and Platform Engineering, Product Management, Architecture, Build Quality, DevSecOps, the Orchestration Hub, and Right Arm teams. The role is accountable for delivery governance, integrated planning, risk and issue management, executive reporting, and continuous improvement in throughput, cycle time, and release reliability.\nCore Responsibilities Include\nDelivery Strategy & Operating Model\nDefine and operate the delivery model, including intake, prioritization, planning cadence, governance, and escalation pathways.\nTurn product and platform priorities into clear plans, milestones, release commitments, capacity needs, and accountable ownership.\nEstablish consistent delivery practices across engineering teams while allowing fit-for-purpose execution at the workstream level.\nAlign delivery plans with architecture, quality, security, infrastructure, data, and operational-readiness requirements.\nEnsure Left Arm plans connect to the integrated Nova roadmap and cross-arm milestones.\nFlow, Dependency & Release Management\nOwn sequencing, dependency management, milestone tracking, and release coordination across the software factory.\nIdentify bottlenecks, conflicting priorities, capacity constraints, and cross-team risks before they affect committed outcomes.\nCoordinate release scope, readiness activities, decision points, and communications across engineering and partner teams.\nPartner with the Orchestration Hub and Right Arm planning leaders on dates and dependencies that cross organizational boundaries.\nCreate escalation and recovery plans when delivery performance moves outside agreed tolerances.\nPerformance, Governance & Reporting\nEstablish metrics and scorecards for predictability, throughput, cycle time, work in progress, dependency health, quality, risk, and release reliability.\nProvide concise, decision-ready reporting to Nova leadership, highlighting outcomes, tradeoffs, risks, and actions required.\nMaintain disciplined risk, issue, assumption, dependency, and decision management across the portfolio.\nUse delivery data to identify systemic constraints and drive continuous improvement across teams and processes.\nEnsure commitments, changes, decisions, and readiness evidence are documented and transparent.\nPeople & Stakeholder Leadership\nLead and develop a team of project, program, release, and delivery-management professionals.\nBuild strong partnerships across Product, Engineering, Architecture, Quality, Security, Infrastructure, Data, Finance, and business teams.\nFacilitate resolution of cross-functional conflicts and maintain focus on enterprise outcomes.\nManage delivery resources, vendor support, budgets, and capacity within the function.\nPromote an accountable, fact-based, and collaborative culture that enables rapid escalation and resolution.\nCritical Leadership Competencies\nDrives Vision and Purpose: Connects the role’s work to Nova’s broader transformation objectives and communicates a clear path forward.\nDelivers Results: Creates accountability, removes barriers, and drives measurable outcomes under demanding timelines.\nManages Complexity: Synthesizes complex and sometimes conflicting information to establish practical solutions.\nDecision Quality: Makes sound, timely decisions using technical, delivery, risk, and business considerations.\nCollaborates: Builds effective partnerships across engineering, architecture, product, delivery, and business teams.\nCommunicates Effectively: Provides clear, concise, and audience-appropriate communications, recommendations, and escalations.\nManages Ambiguity: Establishes direction and momentum where requirements, solutions, or precedents are still emerging.\nInstills Trust: Builds credibility through transparency, expertise, follow-through, and sound judgment.\nBalances Stakeholders: Anticipates and reconciles competing priorities across product, engineering, architecture, quality, and business partners.\nDirects Work: Sets clear priorities and accountability for delivery professionals and cross-functional execution teams.\nCritical Technology Competencies\nDemonstrated expertise in technology program, portfolio, delivery, release, and dependency management.\nExperience operating Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery models across complex engineering environments.\nStrong knowledge of software-development lifecycles, architecture governance, quality gates, DevSecOps, and production-readiness practices.\nExperience establishing delivery metrics, executive scorecards, dashboards, and data-driven improvement routines.\nStrong financial, capacity, vendor, resource, risk, and portfolio-management capabilities.\nAbility to translate technical complexity into clear plans, decisions, and executive communications.\nQualifications \nBachelor's degree or equivalent related experience required; advanced degree and relevant program-management certification preferred.\n10+ years of progressive technology program, portfolio, project, or delivery-management experience, including significant people-management experience.\nDemonstrated experience leading complex enterprise technology portfolios or transformation programs.\nProven success establishing scalable governance, integrated plans, performance measures, and executive reporting.\nExperience managing teams, budgets, vendors, capacity, delivery risks, and cross-organizational dependencies.\nExceptional facilitation, negotiation, problem-solving, written communication, and presentation skills.\nExperience in healthcare, pharmacy benefit management, regulated technology, or similarly complex environments preferred.\nIf you will be working at home occasionally or permanently, the internet connection must be obtained through a cable broadband or fiber optic internet service provider with speeds of at least 10Mbps download/5Mbps upload.For this position, we anticipate offering an annual salary of 155,900 - 259,900 USD / yearly, depending on relevant factors, including experience and geographic location.\nThis role is also anticipated to be eligible to participate in an annual bonus and long term incentive plan.\nAt The Cigna Group, you’ll enjoy a comprehensive range of benefits, with a focus on supporting your whole health. Starting on day one of your employment, you’ll be offered several health-related benefits including medical, vision, dental, and well-being and behavioral health programs. We also offer 401(k), company paid life insurance, tuition reimbursement, a minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year, paid holidays, and leaves of absence. For more details on our employee benefits programs, click here.\nAbout The Cigna Group\nDoing something meaningful starts with a simple decision, a commitment to changing lives. 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. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.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.\nIf you need a reasonable accommodation to complete the online application process, please email  for assistance. Please note that this email inbox is dedicated to accommodation requests only and cannot provide application updates or accept resumes.\nThe Cigna Group 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.\nQualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with all federal, state and local ordinances.","description_format":"text","description_chars":9013,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Life insurance"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Pharmacies","Health Insurance & Benefits"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-20T22:09:32Z"},{"event":"close","at":"2026-10-26T09:32:45Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":null,"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":259900,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/the-cigna-group-it-project-management-director","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/the-cigna-group-it-project-management-director.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-29T15:29:06Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":23235,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-30T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":13928},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=13928"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fthe-cigna-group-it-project-management-director"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fthe-cigna-group-it-project-management-director"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fthe-cigna-group-it-project-management-director"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/the-cigna-group-it-project-management-director\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fthe-cigna-group-it-project-management-director"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":2958210}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"thecignagroup.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":2958210},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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