Software Engineering Senior Advisor- Hybrid

Cigna Health and Life Insurance Company; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 181,000 - 217,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k)

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off (minimum 18 days)

Paid holidays and leaves

Job summary

The Cigna Group seeks a Software Engineering Senior Advisor in Seattle to lead a platform team focusing on REST-based entity services for next-generation service architecture. You will drive API development, data pipelines, and security implementations within a hybrid work model.

Requirements include a Master’s degree or bachelor’s with 4+ years in enterprise software, experience with AWS migrations, MongoDB, Kafka, and Spring-based microservices.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field with 2+ years as a Senior Technical Consultant or related role.
• Bachelor’s degree with 4+ years experience considered.
• Experience in healthcare or pharmacy benefit management industry is required.
• Experience with AWS cloud migration and data pipelines is preferred.
• Experience with MongoDB change streams and data lake integration is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of REST-based APIs in a scrum team.
• Define and refine API requirements and specifications; perform analyses and create designs.
• Mentor team members and collaborate with architects on technology direction.
• Coordinate sprint planning, task breakdowns, and status communication.
• Define test strategy with QA and implement best practices for complex components.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

REST APIs

AWS

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Kafka

OAuth2

Spring Security

JUnit

JDBC

NoSQL

Education

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

Bachelor’s degree with 4+ years experience

Tools

GitHub

Maven

Spring Data

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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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.

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.