Job Description

We are seeking a transformational Vice President of Data & Platform Engineering to lead the enterprise data and analytics foundation for a Fortune 15 healthcare leader. This role sits at the center of the company’s strategy to scale AI, advanced analytics, and data-driven decision-making, with accountability for building and operating the platforms and data products that power the business—from clinical insights and personalization to affordability and operational excellence. As a senior leader within Technology Shared Services, you will serve as a horizontal enterprise enabler, shaping the future of how data is governed, delivered, and consumed across the organization. Reporting to the Chief Platforms, Data & AI engineering officer, this is a high-impact leadership role created to unify fragmented data engineering, analytics platforms, and governance capabilities into a single, enterprise-scale function. You will build and scale a modern, AI-ready data ecosystem, establish trusted, reusable data products across all business domains, drive a shift from siloed delivery to a platform-based, outcome-driven operating model and enable safe, scalable AI adoption with governance embedded by design. This is a rare opportunity to shape the data and platform backbone of a leading healthcare enterprise and directly influence enterprise strategy and outcomes. You will play a defining role in future-proofing the company’s data ecosystem, enabling scalable innovation while ensuring trust, security, and responsible use of data.

Key Responsibilities:

Enterprise Data & Platform Leadership

• Define and execute the enterprise data and analytics platform strategy, aligning platforms, architecture, and investments to business priorities (clinical, operational, financial, and customer outcomes).

• Establish standards, guardrails, and reusable capabilities to enable scalable, self-service use of data and analytics platforms.

Foundational Data Products

• Own the strategy and lifecycle of foundational analytical data products as enterprise assets supporting reporting, analytics, and AI across all business units.

• Ensure data products are trusted, governed, and reusable at scale.

Data & Analytics Platform Engineering

• Lead a unified organization spanning data engineering and analytics platforms, bringing together historically separate capabilities under one operating model.

• Oversee enterprise platforms including data lakehouse, BI, semantic layer, and AI enablement services.

Governance, Risk, and Monetization

• Own platform-level enablement of data governance, quality, and lineage, privacy, security, and regulatory compliance, data risk management and data monetization capabilities

• Embed governance and controls to support responsible, compliant AI and analytics at scale.

Financial & Operational Stewardship

• Lead budget, vendor strategy, and platform investment decisions, driving cost efficiency through shared services and platform reuse.

Organizational Leadership

• Lead a large, global organization of engineering and platform leaders, building a high-performance culture aligned to product and platform operating models.

• Develop bench strength, succession pipelines, and differentiated talent to support future platform and AI priorities.

Executive Partnership & Influence

• Partner with CIOs, business leaders, and enterprise stakeholders to align platform capabilities to business outcomes, shaping major investment decisions and strategic direction.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 15+ years leading enterprise data, analytics, or platform engineering organizations; Bachelor's degree required; Master's degree preferred.

• Proven experience building modern data platforms and enterprise data products.

• Deep expertise in cloud, data engineering, AI/ML, and governance.

• Strong experience operating in regulated industries (healthcare preferred).

• Demonstrated ability to influence C-suite and enterprise-level stakeholders.

• A track record of driving enterprise transformation at scale, not just functional excellence.

If 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 276,400 - 414,600 USD / yearly, 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.

At 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 and paid holidays. For more details on our employee benefits programs, click here

About The Cigna Group

Doing 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.

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The 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.

Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with all federal, state and local ordinances.