Data Engineering Senior Analyst - Cigna Healthcare

Cigna Health and Life Insurance Company; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Cigna Health and Life Insurance Company in Bengaluru seeks a Cloud Data Engineer to architect, develop, and optimise AI data solutions on cloud platforms. You will own the AI and data platform stack, ensuring secure, scalable, and high-performance applications aligned with product goals.

You will lead, mentor, and deliver software projects across teams using Spark, AWS Glue, Databricks, and Terraform, while collaborating with the broader IT and product teams to ensure quality outcomes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software/data engineering with cloud-native data solutions.
• Strong experience with AWS services and data tooling.
• Hands-on Terraform experience for provisioning cloud infra.
• Proficient in Spark/AWS Glue/DataBricks and ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Strong SQL and Python proficiency for automation and data processing.
• Familiar with CI/CD tools and agile delivery.

Responsibilities

• Provide tech leadership for Cloud and AI platform within applications development.
• Mentor junior engineers and foster automation, collaboration, and excellence.
• Deliver software projects on time, within budget, and aligned with IT strategy.

Skills

Cloud data engineering

AWS cloud

Terraform

Spark/Databricks

SQL

Python

CI/CD

Gen-AI exposure

Leadership

Jira

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Software/Data Eng

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Job description

Overview Cigna International Health is seeking a skilled Cloud Data Engineer to architect, develop, and optimise robust AI data solutions on cloud platforms. This role is pivotal in building and maintaining the foundational AI and Data infrastructure that supports scalable, secure, and high-performance applications for our business. The ideal candidate will engineer technical solutions, produce clean code, and ensure successful delivery of software solutions aligned with business goals.

Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership: Provide direction and be responsible for the output of Cloud and AI platform within the application development. Implement AI platform strategy, ensuring that it aligns with the overall business and product objectives. Own AI and Data platform stack for the solution aligned with the product vision as defined by the solution product owner. Contribute to the definition of applications development policies, standards, and procedures.
• Mentoring: Lead and mentor junior software development team members, fostering a culture of innovation, automation, collaboration, and excellence. Take active part in career development and performance of junior software development team members.
• Project Delivery: Execute software projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, within budget, and meet quality standards. Execute project plans and application designs to ensure projects are aligned with standards and IT strategy. Follow the design principles, and development best practices to ensure scalable, secure, and efficient solutions, collaborating with other senior leads.

Requirements

• Experience: 5+ years in software/data engineering roles, with a strong track record in cloud-native data solutions.
• Proven expertise in AWS services (e.g., Lambda, S3, IAM, KMS, API Gateway,).
• Hands-on experience with Terraform (or similar IaC tools) for provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure.
• Strong data engineering skills such as Spark / AWS Glue / Databricks, including building and optimising ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Proficiency in SQL (preferred) and Python (required for automation and data processing).
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI).
• Exposure to Gen-AI development environment such as Azure AI, AWS Bedrock or GCP.
• Experience in using AI productivity tools such as Cursor and exposure to Prompt Engineering.
• Leadership & Communication: Demonstrated ability to mentor technical teams. Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software/Data Engineering, or a related field.
• Desirable: Experience working in regulated environments or with multi-region/multi-currency systems.
• Familiarity with agile methodologies and iterative delivery.
• Exposure to Jira or similar project management tools.

About The Cigna Group

Cigna Healthcare, a division of The Cigna Group, is an advocate for better health through every stage of life. We guide our customers through the health care system, empowering them with the information and insight they need to make the best choices for improving their health and vitality. Join us in driving growth and improving lives. 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.