Sr. Director, Architecture

This position leads the Enterprise Architecture Pharmacy Benefits Management team for Evernorth.

Our Pharmacy Benefits Management business within Evernorth is an industry leader and a top performing segment of our business.

In concert with our business and technology partners, this role is critical to helping chart the vision and continuing our industry-leading position.

This role will lead a team of Principals and Senior Principals responsible for architecting business value outcomes through broad engagement with the Pharmacy benefits business and technology partners.

This leader will be influential in establishing a shared vision for how this business continues to succeed in the marketplace, has insightful perspectives on how our competitive posture can improve through technology and differentiation, and partner to bring value into line of business from the capabilities the broad enterprise is continuing to accumulate.

It is incumbent upon the leader in this role to accelerate delivery of value across Pharmacy Benefits operations, identify optimization opportunities, and manage trade-offs, impacts, risks, opportunities, and value creation.

This leader will maintain strong connectivity across the extended Enterprise Architecture organization to ensure the organization is positioned for long term success.

The Pharmacy benefits management Architecture leader will also partner across the Enterprise to ensure connectivity and alignment with enterprise capabilities such as Generative AI, Universal Digital Capabilities, or the Customer Data Platform (CDP), for example.

The role requires high levels of influence within the Evernorth and Enterprise Architecture organizations, extensive business knowledge and savvy, innovative problem-solving skills, and the ability to marry business and technology into a cohesive value-oriented strategies.

This role is expected to serve as a trusted partner and advisor at all levels within the company.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:


* Partners with Technology and Business to define strategies and strategic choices and aligns Technology strategy to Business and Enterprise strategy.

Serves as a trusted strategic advisor to Business and Technology leadership


* Articulates strategy, "connects the dots", to help Business and Technology understand the enterprise strategic direction, technology impacts, and architectural strategic direction / priorities, enabling improved decision making, prioritization of efforts, and alignment with enterprise priorities to drive value realization


* Develops 3-5-year roadmaps, outlooks, and target state architectures that are aligned with strategies and prioritize both business delivery and technical debt reduction by working through ambiguity to translate business needs to technical drivers


* Drives programs, initiatives, and projects up and down the organizational hierarchy and supports RFPs and client presentations when needed by providing business-facing architectura...