Software Engineering Senior Advisor- Hybrid

Cigna Healthcare; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 181,000 - 217,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, vision, dental benefits

401(k) employer match

Life insurance

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off

Job summary

The Cigna Group seeks a Software Engineering Senior Advisor in Seattle, WA to lead a platform team delivering REST-based services for next‑generation architecture. You will act as lead developer across scrum teams, design APIs, and mentor staff while partnering with architects to mature technology components in the Evernorth environment.

You will work with QA to define test strategies, ensure quality, and guide standard practices.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in CS/CE or related field with 2 years of senior advisory/lead experience.
• Bachelor’s degree with 4 years of related experience acceptable.
• Experience in healthcare or PBM industry is required.
• Experience migrating audits to cloud and data migration tools recommended.
• Ability to design APIs, data pipelines, and data verification tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and development of REST APIs in a multi-scrum team.
• Define API specifications with architects and SMEs; write code, tests, and reviews.
• Mentor team members and drive code quality and refactoring.
• Collaborate on data pipelines, streaming, and data lake initiatives.
• Set sprint plans and ensure delivery aligned with business needs.
• Partner with QA to define test strategies and resolve production issues.

Skills

Java development

Spring Boot

REST APIs

MongoDB

Kafka Confluent

AWS

PostgreSQL

OAuth2.0

Spring Security

GitHub

NoSQL

Junit

Maven

Agile

Cloud/VM infra

Education

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

Bachelor’s degree with 4 years of experience

Tools

Spring Data JPA

MongoDB

Aurora DB

Redis

Kafka Confluent

Postman/Swagger

JDBC

Job description

Cigna-Evernorth Services Inc. seeks a Software Engineering Senior Advisor for the Seattle, WA location to lead a platform team in the software design, development, and quality testing of REST-based entity services for next-generation service architecture.

Responsibilities

• Act as the lead developer on one or more scrum team responsible for the design and development of services implementing REST-based Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).
• Work with technical managers, architects, and subject matter experts to define and refine requirements and API specifications, perform analyses of existing business services and data stores, create detailed designs, write code and unit tests, conduct code reviews and code refactoring, and mentor other members of the team.
• Partner with architects to set the direction for maturing use of, retiring, and adding technology components in the Evernorth (ESI) environment.
• Work with technical managers and scrum masters in communicating status, figuring out sprints and milestones, aligning sprints to business needs, breaking stories into tasks, providing estimates, and ensuring the development efforts are focused and aligned with stories.
• Work with the Quality Assurance (QA) team and developers to define and implement test strategy, ensure quality, lead efforts to develop standard practices, components, and guidelines for the use of complex technology components, and resolve urgent issues with production services.

Hybrid Work Schedule.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field and 2 years of experience as a Senior Technical Consultant, Technical Consultant, Web Developer, or related occupation.
• Will accept a Bachelor’s degree and 4 years of experience.
• Requires experience with: Working in/with clients in the healthcare or pharmacy benefit management industry;
• Working on AWS cloud migration for Audit data service from on-prem Postgres to Aurora DB; Developing One-time load data migration tools in python to migrate the existing on-prem terabytes of data into Aurora DB;
• Developing data synchronization pipelines to process the real-time data from Apache Kafka topics by configuring S3 sink connector to trigger S3 events and Lambda to persist the data into Aurora DB;
• Optimizing the API service response time within SLA by improving mongo queries and indexes;
• Developing Data Verification Tools to reconcile data between different sources and target DB;
• Designing effective data pipeline to transform data, performing data integrity checks and processing retry errors or failures;
• Developing update processors to handle the data with high throughput and low latency using Kafka Confluent;
• Implementing Mongo change streams on MongoDB to transform the real-time events into Data Lake;
• Building Restful APIs in Spring Boot using cloud based Microservices architecture;
• Developing a common Authorization service using Spring Security;
• Setting up infrastructure for Disaster Recovery Environment;
• Utilizing GitHub for managing work including issue tracking, pull request reviews and version control;
• Implementing secure authentication mechanisms and managing user permissions to protect resources using OAuth2.0;
• Writing unit tests using Junit framework;
• Implementing PostgreSQL database as backend database for persistent Portal data;
• Using Spring data repository framework to convert business requirements into database queries;
• Working in Agile environments; and
• Using: Java development, data models, sequence diagrams, class diagrams, Java Data Base Connectivity (JDBC), Structured Query Language (SQL), NoSQL, Scrum, Maven, REST-based services, Cloud/VM infrastructure and technologies, and modern IDEs.

Salary Range: $180,710-$217,000

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

Doing something meaningful starts with a simple decision, a commitment to changing lives. At The Cigna Group, we’re dedicated to improving the health and vitality of those we serve. Through our divisions Cigna Healthcare and Evernorth Health Services, we are committed to enhancing the lives of our clients, customers and patients. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.

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.

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