Application Development Senior Advisor- Hybrid

The Cigna Group; Bloomfield (CT); Hybrid; USD 154,000 - 204,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k)

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off

Job summary

The Cigna Group is seeking an Application Development Senior Advisor in Bloomfield, CT to design, develop, and integrate solutions across digital web applications. You will create APIs, collaborate with product owners and engineers, and mentor junior staff in a healthcare tech environment.

The role emphasizes secure, scalable software, end-to-end development, and strong collaboration across teams. Hybrid work arrangements apply, with comprehensive benefits and career growth opportunities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, IT or related field with 5 years in healthcare tech.
• Experience with healthcare or PBM industry preferred.
• Design, develop, and maintain high-quality software with secure, modular code.
• Experience with IBM MQ, ESQL, DB2, Oracle, REST services, and AWS.
• Experience with Scrum/DevOps and CI with Jenkins/Maven.
• Ability to mentor junior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Develop reusable and scalable APIs.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and management.
• Design, develop and maintain high-quality software by analyzing requirements.
• Write clean, secure, efficient and modular code.
• Improve and simplify existing code with high unit test coverage.
• Identify challenges and resolve application issues.
• Collaborate with architects, design and development teams for critical healthcare applications.
• Mentor junior engineers as needed.
• Support incident resolution and hybrid work schedule.

Skills

APIs

Cross-functional collaboration

Secure coding

Unit testing

DevOps

Agile/Scrum

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, IT or related field

Tools

IBM MQ

ESQL

DB2

Oracle Database

Shell Scripting

Kafka

Mainframes

Automated Integration Tests

Job description

Cigna-Evernorth Services Inc. seeks an Application Development Senior Advisor for the Bloomfield, CT location to design, develop, and integrate solutions to solve business and technical requirements across digital web applications.

Responsibilities

• Develop reusable and scalable Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).
• Work independently and in close partnership with cross-functional teams and management.
• Design, develop and maintain high-quality software by analyzing business requirements and leveraging end-to-end business knowledge.
• Write clean, secure, efficient and modular code.
• Improve and simplify existing application code to ensure high unit test coverage.
• Identify potential challenges and resolving application complications.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Quality Engineers, Scrum Masters, and Software Engineers as well as external teams to deliver value.
• Mentor junior engineers as necessary.
• Collaborate with architecture, design and development teams for critical applications such as Healthcare Eligibility, Claims, and Claim Reimbursement domains.
• Complete priority resolution incidents to support business needs.
• Hybrid Work Schedule.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Information Technology or related field and 5 years of experience as a Senior Project Engineer or related occupation in the healthcare domain.
• Requires experience with: Working in/with clients in the healthcare or pharmacy benefit management industry;
• Designing, developing, and maintaining high quality software; Writing clean, secure, efficient, and modular code;
• Improving and simplifying existing application code to ensure high unit test coverage;
• Utilizing core application languages including IBM Integration Bus/App Connect Enterprise, AWS, Python, and Java;
• Collaborating with Architecture, Design, and Development Teams for critical applications including Healthcare Eligibility, Claims, and Claim Requirement Domain;
• Designing, developing, and integrating solutions to solve business and technical requirements across digital web applications;
• Designing APIs, data models, sequence diagrams, and class diagrams; and
• Using: IBM MQ, ESQL, DB2, Oracle Database, Shell Scripting, AI, REST-Based Services, Automated Integration Tests, Relational Databases including JDBC; Agile Methodology using Scrum, DevOps and Continuous Integration using Jenkins and Maven, Version Control Systems, Kafka, and accessing data on mainframes.

Salary Range: $154,024-$203,600/year
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 122,200 - 203,600 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 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, paid holidays, and leaves of absence. For more details on our employee benefits programs.

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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