Data Ops - Data Builder

Cigna Healthcare; Connecticut; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Cigna Healthcare seeks a Data Builder within Data Management Strategy & Governance to turn architectural designs into trusted, reusable data products through MVP that are production-grade.

This hands-on contributor role blends business fluency with data engineering discipline, building Gold data assets and ensuring readiness for enterprise use through governed CI/CD practices.

Qualifications

• Experience translating architectural designs into data products.
• Strong understanding of data governance concepts.

Responsibilities

• Turn architectural designs and business requirements into production-grade MVP data products.
• Collaborate with Data Architecture/Analysis teams to build Gold data assets.
• Deliver reusable data assets and ensure they align with governance standards.

Skills

Data modeling

Data governance

SQL

Tools

ETL tools

Job description

The job profile for this position is Data Management Strategy & Governance Advisor .

We value our talented employees, and whenever possible strive to help one of our associates grow professionally before recruiting new talent to our open positions.

Our people make all the difference in our success.

Job Description

• The Data Builder is the hands-on builder responsible for turning architectural design and business requirements into trusted, reusable data products through MVP that are production grade. Reporting to the Senior Director, Data Operations & Data Management, this role builds to the enterprise-agnostic Silver foundation designed by Data Architecture and co-designs and builds Gold data products where business logic, metrics, and functional knowledge live.
• This is a hands-on individual contributor role — the build authority that blends business fluency and data engineering discipline in equal measure , authoring Gold data products that answer the question the first time and building them to production standard.
• This role is a critical execution counterpart to Data Architecture and Data Analysis, Products & Integration , building faithfully against their designs and requirements and compressing the path from new data to a production-grade, reusable asset. It is an exciting opportunity to join the team transforming how Cigna builds and reuses data — delivered through MVP.

Key Responsibilities

Rapid Build & Delivery

• Build architecture’s designs and analysis’s requirements into production-ready solutions through MVP.
• Work new and unfamiliar data quickly into a working solution that answers the business question at hand.
• Refactor learning-stage and bespoke work into durable, reusable, production-ready assets.

Silver — Build to Architecture’s Design

• Build the physical Silver structures to the enterprise-agnostic Silver model and reference patterns designed by Data Architecture.
• Implement the design faithfully and promote it to production through governed CI/CD pipelines .
• Capture business context and metadata at build, and hand off to trusted partner teams as readiness allows.

Gold — Democratized, Delivered Through MVP

• Treat the Gold layer as democratized — Data Operations may own specific Gold assets and assists other teams in building theirs.
• Deliver Gold