Software Engineer Apprenticeship Program - Evernorth

Software Engineer Apprenticeship Program - Evernorth

Evernorth in partnership with Daughtery Business Solutions is proud to be an Access Point corporate partner with our Software Engineer Apprenticeship Program. 

Applicants must meet certain qualifications in order to be considered:

• Must have met all requirements as set by Access Point
• Must be approved and selected as an Apprentice candidate by Access Point
• Must be enrolled/enrolling in the Access Point Training Program at Saint Louis Community College/University of Missouri Saint Louis
• Candidates must be team-oriented and relational
• Effectively communicates to individuals at all levels of the technical and business communities. 
• Develops a strong affiliation with the requirements, technology solution, and operational readiness organizations, including the ability to use, share, contribute and influence the appropriate artifacts, approaches, and best practices used to build enterprise-scale solutions.

Competencies

Technical knowledge or experience is a basic requirement for this kind of role. The Software Engineer Apprentice also needs to be tactful and diplomatic to maintain a good working relationship with the software developers, QE peers, and across multiple teams. Additional competencies and technologies the Software Engineer Apprentice will develop include:

• Analytical skills.
• Decision-making ability (Problem Solving, Priority Setting, Perseverance)
• Informing, Dealing with Ambiguity
• Attention to detail.
• Quick learner of new technologies and adapt to changes.
• Influential, focused, and versatile team player that is comfortable under pressure and changing environments.

Technologies

• Gain a strong background in object-oriented software development. Knowledge of modern, cloud-hosted, single-page applications.
• Unit testing and automated builds and deploys Ability to write web services in Java using the Spring Boot framework.
• Database knowledge and advanced query skills for SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Experience using Kafka to build event-driven architecture between applications.
• Understanding of web markup, including HTML5, CSS3.
• Understanding of server-side CSS pre-processing platforms, such as LESS and SASS/SCSS.
• Understanding of client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks, including React.
• Understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX.
• Familiarity with building applications in a large-scale enterprise environment.
• Understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.
• Experience with automated test tools, script development, and execution.
• Java Selenium, TestNG, JDBC, Cucumber (BDD framework)
• Implementation of Automation frameworks
• Rest Assured API automation
• Databases and SQL test automation
• CI/CD experience or knowledge

Responsibilities

Under the guidance of a Senior Engineer, you will have the opportunity to have the following responsibilities.

• Define physical program units and data structures based on the logical model to satisfy the requirements of the application.
• Improve application quality and reliability by implementing good standards and processes.
• Increase productivity by implementing tools and processes.
• Resolve complex technical issues.
• Develop new user-facing features.
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs.
• Ensure quality is maintained by following development patterns and standards.
• Prepare deployment and post-deployment plans to support the conversion and deployment of the solution.
• Interact with architects, analysts, project managers, developers, customer representatives, and managers to ensure that application solution meets customer needs.
• Makes well-thought-out decisions on complex or ambiguous issues.
• Work with the development team to identify and capture test cases, ensure version management.
• Setting up test environments, designing test plans, developing test cases/scenarios/usage cases, test data, automating and executing these cases.

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.

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.