Senior Architecture Advisor - Hybrid, Roadmaps & Mentoring

Cigna Health and Life Insurance Company; Raleigh (NC); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Work Schedule

Job summary

The Cigna Group is seeking an Architecture Senior Advisor in Raleigh, NC to build and maintain the architectural runway and technical foundation for delivering company initiatives and new features. You will guide delivery teams and drive architecture decisions across multiple applications and products.

Responsibilities include leading system architecture reviews, mentoring agile teams, aligning roadmaps with enterprise goals, and ensuring scalable, standards-based solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field and 5 years of experience as a Software Engineer, IT Analyst or related occupation.
• Experience with: Spring Integration along with MQ to read and process data;
• Working on TDD (Test Driven Development) processes by writing Junit test cases before implementation;
• Deploying projects into multiple environments including DEV/ SYS/ PVS/ PROD;
• Writing Cucumber (Specification by Example) scenarios for requirements;
• Developing Restful services as per business requirements; Using Eclipse for writing code and SVN for version control;
• Writing Maven scripts for building applications; Deploying applications using Linux (Mac OS terminal) in IT, UAT and production environments;
• Implementing complex modules using Java/J2EE frameworks including Spring, Hibernate, and web services;
• Using: Relational database design, BRMS Drools Rule Engine, Windows, Struts, Servlets, JavaScript, Ajax, SVN, MVC, WebSphere Server, and Apache Tomcat Server.

Responsibilities

• Participate in the continuous technical exploration process as part of the continuous delivery pipeline, including enabling Epics, defining subsystems and their interfaces, allocating responsibilities to subsystems, understanding solution deployment, and communicating requirements for interactions with solution context.
• Deliver and review System Architecture (SA) solutions for a specific application or a group of applications.
• Provide technical expertise through a hands-on mentoring approach to teams and projects, developing capabilities via the use of new technology and products, and maintaining a deep level of involvement with the agile development teams.
• Contribute to the Company’s application roadmaps, and support enterprise architecture product and capability roadmaps, which impacts across a group of systems and products.
• Support engineering and delivery teams in building and maintaining applications conformant to standards, architectures, and technologies.
• Support sizing efforts within the application domain assigned and provide leadership to organize and facilitate sizing efforts provided by the team, helping to ensure end-to-end solutions meet the business need.
• Present solutions, logical design direction, or technology recommendation to relevant stakeholders.
• Support performance volume stress testing for applications.
• Assist in creating and maintaining best practices, deliverables, and processes for the System Architecture team.
• Ensure solutions fit within project schedules and costs and provide optionality if necessary.
• Hybrid Work Schedule.

Skills

Java/J2EE

Spring Framework

Hibernate

RESTful services

JUnit/TDD

System Architecture

Agile/Scrum

Maven

WebSphere/Tomcat

SVN

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field

Tools

Eclipse

SVN

Maven

Linux

WebSphere

Apache Tomcat

Job description

The Cigna Group is seeking an Architecture Senior Advisor in Raleigh, NC to build and maintain the architectural runway and technical foundation for delivering company initiatives and new features. You will guide delivery teams and drive architecture decisions across multiple applications and products.

Responsibilities include leading system architecture reviews, mentoring agile teams, aligning roadmaps with enterprise goals, and ensuring scalable, standards-based solutions.