Remote Data Ops Engineer: MVP to Production

Cigna Healthcare; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 102,000 - 171,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Vision, Dental health plans

Well-being programs

401(k)

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off (18 days)

Paid holidays and leave of absence

Job summary

The Cigna Group is seeking a Data Management Strategy & Governance Advisor to turn architectural designs and business requirements into production-grade data products via MVP. Reporting to the Senior Director, Data Operations & Data Management, you will build Silver foundations and co‑design Gold data assets that serve business insights from day one.

This hands-on role blends business fluency with engineering discipline, delivering scalable, governed solutions in a regulated healthcare context.

Qualifications

• 3+ years building production-grade data solutions.
• 50/50 blend of business fluency and hands-on engineering.
• Hands-on experience with Databricks, Spark, Unity Catalog, SQL and Python.
• Familiarity with Snowflake and Teradata.
• Expert knowledge of dimensional and medallion (Silver/Gold) modeling.
• Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and governance tooling.
• Strong software-engineering discipline: Git, code review, reusable code.
• Familiarity with Collibra and automated data-quality testing.
• Ability to learn new data domain quickly and apply AI to accelerate build.

Responsibilities

• Rapid build and delivery of production-grade data products.
• Translate designs and requirements into MVP-backed solutions.
• Turn new data into working solutions to answer business questions.
• Refactor learning-stage work into durable, reusable assets.
• Build Silver structures per architecture and promote to production.
• Deliver Gold solutions through MVP and governance-compliant pipelines.
• Collaborate with Data Architecture, Data Analysis, and DevOps teams.
• Ensure production readiness with governance, security, and cost checks.

Skills

Databricks

Spark

Unity Catalog

SQL

Python

Data governance

Collibra

Dimensional modeling

Medallion modeling

CI/CD

Git

AI/Automation

Learning data domain

Data quality testing

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

Teradata

Collibra

CI/CD pipelines

Git

Job description

The Cigna Group is seeking a Data Management Strategy & Governance Advisor to turn architectural designs and business requirements into production-grade data products via MVP. Reporting to the Senior Director, Data Operations & Data Management, you will build Silver foundations and co‑design Gold data assets that serve business insights from day one.

This hands-on role blends business fluency with engineering discipline, delivering scalable, governed solutions in a regulated healthcare context.