Data Ops Lead: MVP Data Builder, Production-Grade

Cigna Healthcare; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 115,000 - 192,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits including medical, and

Well-being programs

401(k)

Life insurance

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Leaves of absence

Job summary

The Cigna Group is seeking a Data Management Strategy & Governance Senior Advisor to lead production-grade data solutions from MVP through governed pipelines. You will partner with Data Architecture, Data Operations, and enterprise teams to implement Silver/Gold data models and ensure scalable data products.

With 7+ years in analytics engineering, you blend business fluency with hands-on coding in Databricks, Spark, SQL, Python, and cloud data platforms.

Qualifications

• 7+ years building production-grade data solutions, with depth in analytics engineering or equivalent business-plus-build work.
• A genuine 50/50 blend of business fluency and hands-on engineering discipline.
• Hands-on experience with Databricks, Spark, Unity Catalog, SQL, and Python.
• Familiarity with Snowflake and Teradata in addition to a Databricks-first stack.
• Expert knowledge of dimensional and medallion (Silver / Gold) modeling within an enterprise-agnostic data model.
• Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, automated code evaluation, and controlled promotion to production.
• Strong software-engineering discipline — version control (Git), code review, and efficient, reusable code.
• Performance-tuning and cost-optimizing Spark and SQL transformations at scale.
• Familiarity with data governance and cataloging tooling such as Collibra.
• Automated data-quality testing and validation built into every solution.
• Demonstrated ability to learn a new data domain fast and turn business logic into reusable data products.
• Demonstrated ability to apply AI and automation to accelerate build while preserving quality and governance.
• Experience in complex, regulated enterprises preferred; healthcare or PBM data a plus.

Responsibilities

• Build production-grade data solutions from MVP to production within governed CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with Data Architecture, Data Analysis, and Platform Engineering/IT teams to ensure faithful delivery.
• Capture business context and metadata at build and hand off to partner teams as readiness allows.
• Deliver Gold data products through build-through-MVP, promoted to production-grade with governance.

Skills

Business fluency

Engineering discipline

AI and automation

Data governance

CI/CD pipelines

Tools

Databricks

Spark

Unity Catalog

SQL

Python

Snowflake

Teradata

Git

Job description

The Cigna Group is seeking a Data Management Strategy & Governance Senior Advisor to lead production-grade data solutions from MVP through governed pipelines. You will partner with Data Architecture, Data Operations, and enterprise teams to implement Silver/Gold data models and ensure scalable data products.

With 7+ years in analytics engineering, you blend business fluency with hands-on coding in Databricks, Spark, SQL, Python, and cloud data platforms.