Executive Director, Aetna, Interoperability Strategy

We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time. Role Overview The Executive Director, Aetna Interoperability Strategy is a senior enterprise leader responsible for setting, owning, and advancing Aetna’s enterprise-wide interoperability strategy across all business lines. Reporting directly to the Vice President of Interoperability, this role serves as the strategic convener for interoperability—shaping long-term vision, guiding near-term execution, and ensuring alignment across technology, product, operations, and business leadership. This executive operates at the intersection of technology, policy, and business, translating complex regulatory, technical, and market dynamics into clear, actionable enterprise strategy for senior leadership and enterprise governance bodies. The Executive Director synthesizes multiple, often competing, roadmaps into a cohesive enterprise narrative, identifies strategic gaps and opportunities, and drives convergence, simplification, and value realization across Aetna’s interoperability portfolio. As a visible enterprise leader and external ambassador, the Executive Director represents Aetna’s interoperability strategy internally across the CVS Health enterprise and externally with providers, vendors, regulators, and industry organizations. This role balances long-term (3–5+ year) enterprise vision with pragmatic, incremental execution that delivers measurable business, clinical, and regulatory outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive and advance a unified, enterprise-wide interoperability strategy across all Aetna business lines.
• Synthesize and govern enterprise interoperability and platform roadmaps, identifying dependencies, risks, and opportunities for convergence.
• Serve as the executive convener aligning senior leaders across technology, product, operations, quality, revenue integrity, and lines of business.
• Advise enterprise leadership on the intersection of interoperability standards, policy, technology, and business strategy.
• Represent Aetna’s interoperability strategy across the CVS Health enterprise and externally with providers, vendors, and industry bodies.
• Guide long-term planning while ensuring near-term regulatory and operational commitments are met.
• Working with peers and partners across the organization, influence capital allocation, investment prioritization, and portfolio optimization related to interoperability initiatives.
• Champion executive-level storytelling, translating complex strategies into clear, decision-oriented narratives.
• Support and lead governance processes to ensure strategy is executed, measured, and value is realized.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Required Qualifications

• 12–15+ years of progressive leadership experience in U.S. healthcare technology or interoperability.
• Demonstrated executive accountability for enterprise-scale strategy and transformation.
• Deep expertise in interoperability standards including FHIR, HL7, X12, and NCPDP.
• Proven ability to lead through influence in large, matrixed organizations.
• Executive-level communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong business and financial acumen, including portfolio and investment decision-making.
• Deep understanding of payer and provider workflows and regulatory requirements.
• Ability to balance long-term vision with pragmatic execution.

Pay Range The typical pay range for this role is: $131,500.00 - $303,195.00 This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors. This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above. This position also includes an award target in the company’s equity award program. Our people fuel our future. Our teams reflect the customers, patients, members and communities we serve and we are committed to fostering a workplace where every colleague feels valued and that they belong. Great benefits for great people We take pride in our comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits – investing in the physical, emotional and financial wellness of our colleagues and their families to help them be the healthiest they can be. In addition to our competitive wages, our great benefits include:

• Affordable medical plan options, a 401(k) plan (including matching company contributions), and an employee stock purchase plan.
• No-cost programs for all colleagues including wellness screenings, tobacco cessation and weight management programs, confidential counseling and financial coaching.
• Benefit solutions that address the different needs and preferences of our colleagues including paid time off, flexible work schedules, family leave, dependent care resources, colleague assistance programs, tuition assistance, retiree medical access and many other benefits depending on eligibility.

For more information, visit https://jobs.cvshealth.com/us/en/benefits We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 04/03/2026 Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job