. Net Senior Architecture

Location: Bloomfield, CT

Remote Type: Remote

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

We believe our people make the biggest difference in our success. We value growing our own talent and encourage our employees to apply when a role fits their skills and career goals.

The Architecture Senior Advisor (Cloud Platform) is a senior technical role. This person designs and supports a secure cloud platform using AWS. They lead technical teams, guide best practices, and help build reliable systems that support our business and provider technology needs.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and build a secure AWS cloud platform using company standards and best practices
• Act as a technical leader and guide IT and delivery teams
• Help move systems to the cloud and improve automation
• Set technical standards and support shared cloud services
• Lead performance improvement and system stability efforts
• Create and maintain product and software roadmaps
• Provide technical leadership for provider technology solutions
• Design end‑to‑end solutions that reuse existing IT systems when possible
• Work closely with business partners to meet new business and compliance needs
• Partner with multiple IT teams to ensure shared understanding of business goals
• Support development teams by sharing technical knowledge and new tools
• Define system performance, security, and reliability requirements
• Work with architecture and cloud teams to plan and deliver new capabilities
• Participate in planning sessions, system demos, and reviews as needed
• Keep architecture decisions and plans updated in Confluence
• Create and maintain best practices and processes for the architecture team

Required Qualifications:

• Strong communication skills and the ability to work well with many teams
• 9+ years of related experience, or a master’s degree with 4+ years of experience
• Experience working with complex systems, microservices, and cloud platforms
• Hands‑on experience with AWS services such as Lambda, API Gateway, EKS, ECS, S3, RDS, and more
• Experience designing secure systems using frameworks like AWS Well‑Architected
• Knowledge of programming tools and platforms such as Java, Python, Node.js, and MongoDB
• Experience with data integration, streaming, and batch processing
• Experience building and scaling large databases (SQL and NoSQL)
• Experience with building Agentic flows using Bedrock, OpenAPI, Lang chain, Lang graph.
• Experience working with containers like Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience using tools such as Terraform, GitHub, Jenkins, and GitHub Actions
• Understanding of security concepts such as encryption and identity management
• Experience moving data from on‑premise systems to the cloud
• Experience across all stages of software development, including design, testing, and support

Preferred Qualifications

• A strong focus on customer results
• Excellent teamwork and relationship‑building skills
• The ability to manage multiple priorities and learn quickly
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect certification

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.

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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.

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