Software Engineering Senior Advisor- Hybrid

The Cigna Group; Morris Plains (NJ); Hybrid; USD 167,000 - 217,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k)

Life insurance

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Leaves of absence

Job summary

The Cigna Group in Morris Plains, NJ seeks a Software Engineering Senior Advisor to design and develop a consolidated enterprise data warehouse and data lake for Customer, Provider, Claims, Client and Benefits data.

You will lead complex engineering efforts, migrate legacy processes, and enable strategic decision making through analytics and reporting in a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems or related field.
• 5 years of experience in healthcare or pharmacy benefit management industry.
• Experience migrating legacy Mainframe Enrollment and Eligibility file processing to AWS, Python and Spark.
• Proficiency with Jira for project management across the software development lifecycle.
• Experience with IBM Mainframe technologies to design architecture and guide technical delivery.
• Experience with COBOL, JCL, DB2, Web Services, and rest interfaces in enterprise environments.
• Ability to design, implement and automate large data processing and migration tasks.
• Knowledge of CI/CD practices and automation tooling in a data engineering context.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert content and professional leadership on complex engineering assignments and projects.
• Design, develop and implement methods, processes, tools and analyses to sift through large amounts of data stored in a data warehouse or data mart to find relationships and patterns.
• Deliver end-to-end business software needs from concept to deployment.
• Participate in the delivery of the definitive enterprise information environment that enables strategic decision making capabilities across enterprise via analytics and reporting.
• Conceive, plan, and deliver initiatives.
• Provide thought leadership within Information Management while also working on broader projects that require understanding of wider business practices.
• Drive the adoption of CI/CD tools and support the improvement of tool sets/processes.
• Write software that successfully integrates and interfaces systems.
• Hybrid Work Schedule.

Skills

Python

Spark

CI/CD

Data warehousing

REST APIs

Jira

Distributed systems

SQL/DB2

Rexx/ISPF

CICS

Mainframe modernization

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems or related field

Tools

IBM Mainframe

JCL

DB2

Web Services

Rational Developer for z/OS

Mercator

WTX8.2

Ab Initio

CICS

ISPF

CA 7

Job description

Cigna-Evernorth Services Inc. seeks a Software Engineering Senior Advisor for the Morris Plains, NJ location to design and develop a consolidated, conformed enterprise data warehouse and data lake, which stores all critical data across Customer, Provider, Claims, Client and Benefits data.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert content and professional leadership on complex engineering assignments and projects.
• Design, develop and implement methods, processes, tools and analyses to sift through large amounts of data stored in a data warehouse or data mart to find relationships and patterns.
• Deliver end-to-end business software needs from concept to deployment.
• Participate in the delivery of the definitive enterprise information environment that enables strategic decision making capabilities across enterprise via analytics and reporting.
• Conceive, plan, and deliver initiatives.
• Provide thought leadership within Information Management while also working on broader projects that require understanding of wider business practices.
• Drive the adoption of CI/CD tools and support the improvement of tool sets/processes.
• Write software that successfully integrates and interfaces systems.
• Hybrid Work Schedule.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems or related field and 5 years of experience.
• Requires experience with: Working in/with clients in the healthcare or pharmacy benefit management industry;
• Performing cross functional system level design; Designing architecture and migrating the legacy Mainframe Enrollment and Eligibility file processing applications into AWS, Python, and Spark based framework for Modernization;
• Tracking and guiding continuous improvement of digital maturity for discovery, delivery, and engineering practices; Using Jira for project management to track all phases of software development;
• Conducting causal analysis to identify root causes; Completing project lifecycle including project planning, scope/ schedule/ resource/finance/stakeholder management, and cross functional team management;
• Planning project approach, KPIs, and metrics for Project Tracking, Reporting, and Managing Financials; Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, Daily Scrum, Show and Tell, and Retrospection;
• Using IBM Mainframe and Electronic Data Interchange technologies to design system architecture, guide and review technical delivery by internal teams, and resolve architecture issues;
• Writing and modifying complex software application programs; Developing and supporting the parallel execution flow while the migration is in progress and until successful launch of the migration;
• Building Regression test frameworks, automating legacy manual processes in QA testing, and developing productivity/ Automation tools based on Rexx, ISPF, and Hiperstation;
• Building new CICS regions from scratch; Working with CICS, DBA, and Mainframe infrastructure teams to perform sanity tests; Automating existing manual tasks using REXX, ISPF, and CA 7;
• Reviewing and monitoring all phases of software engineering including requirements analysis, design, code development, and testing and implementation; and
• Using: Cobol, JCL, DB2, Web Services, IBM Rational Developer for z systems, Electronic Data Interchange, Mercator, WTX8.2, and Abinito, Restful Microservices, REST APIs, library calls, and database queries.

Salary Range: $166,754-$217,000/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 130,200 - 217,000 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, click here.

About The Cigna Group

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.

If you need a reasonable accommodation to complete the online application process, please email [e-mail] for assistance. Please note that this email inbox is dedicated to accommodation requests only and cannot provide application updates or accept resumes.

The Cigna Group has a tobacco-free policy and reserves the right not to hire tobacco/nicotine users in states where that is legally permissible. Candidates in such states who use tobacco/nicotine will not be considered for employment unless they enter a qualifying smoking cessation program prior to the start of their employment. These states include: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Washington State.

Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with all federal, state and local ordinances.