Data Engineering Sr. Advisor

Position Overview

The job profile for this position is for a Data Engineering Sr. Advisor.  This is a Band 4 Senior Contributor Career Track Role.

We are seeking an experienced Data Engineering Sr. Advisor to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in data engineering and extensive experience with AWS data engineering services. This role involves designing, developing, and maintaining scalable data pipelines and infrastructure to support various data-driven projects.

Responsibilities:

• Design and hands-on development of robust solutions to hard problems considering scale, security, reliability, performance, operational excellence, and cost.
• Supports other product delivery partners in the successful build, test, and release of solutions.
• Works with distributed requirements and technical stakeholders to complete shared design and development.
• Supports the full software lifecycle of design, development, testing, and support for technical delivery.
• Actively participate in agile ceremonies
• Work with the team to understand the business value and break down the feature as stories
• Reviews user story/requirements to identify ambiguities
• Communicate clearly, concisely, and effectively for your audience.
• Collaborate across teams and departments to help to create best practices
• Identify risks and help mitigate
• Ability to design with ambiguous requirements
• Guide and mentor team members on all aspects of software engineering
• Ability to drive innovation in the organization
• Ability to make presentations on software technologies, frameworks, and patterns to the organization

Skills:

• AWS Services: S3, Glue, Lambda, Step Functions, API Gateway
• Experience with developing complex ETL jobs using PySpark
• Strong Knowledge on SQL, analyzing, data profiling, designing and developing backend applications with complex and highly normalized data model
• Data Integration (batch, real-time) following the established Integration Patterns
• Experience working with various database engines - MSSQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB
• Experience in developing cloud native data pipelines and backend applications following AWS well architected principles.
• Programming experience with at least one of Python or Node.js or Java
• Experience in integrating RESTful web-services
• Experience with build and deployment tools, e.g., Git, Jenkins etc.
• Experience with IAC (Terraform or equivalent)
• Attention to details
• Quick Learner
• Excellent Communication
• Automation driven Mindset to improve maintainability and testability
• Document design and solution to provide clarity.
• Certification desired: AWS certified Developer Associate, AWS certified Data Engineer Associate, Databricks Spark certification.

Education:

• College or University degree in Computer Science or a related discipline preferred
• 10+ years of work experience in software engineering.
• 3+ years of experience in AWS
• Strong desire to learn and upskill.

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.

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.

If you require reasonable accommodation in completing the online application process, please email: SeeYourself@cigna.com for support. Do not email SeeYourself@cigna.com for an update on your application or to provide your resume as you will not receive a response.

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

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.