Software Engineering Manager

Overview

Cigna International Health is initiating a project to modernise its portal and self-service application to bolster the expansion of our health businesses across the globe. We’re actively seeking accomplished leaders to champion our vision and steer us towards building a mobile platform for serving Cigna’s customers all over the world.

We are seeking an experienced Software Engineering leader to drive our front-end software development efforts in creating high-quality web and mobile solutions. The ideal candidate will lead the team, engineer technical solutions, responsible for producing clean code, and ensuring successful delivery of software solutions aligned with business goals.

Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership:
  • Provide direction and be responsible for the output of frontend discipline within the application development.
  • Implement software engineering strategy, ensuring that it aligns with the overall business and product objectives.
  • Own the frontend application development capability for our web portal solution aligned with the product vision as defined by the solution product owner.
  • Contribute to the definition of applications development policies, standards, and procedures.
• Team Leadership:
  • Lead, mentor, and manage the engineering team, fostering a culture of innovation, automation, collaboration, and excellence.
  • Responsible for career development and performance management of the team members.
• Project Delivery:
  • Execute software projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, within budget, and meet quality standards.
  • Develop solutions using TDD methodology.
  • Execute project plans and application designs to ensure projects are aligned with standards and IT strategy.
• Architecture and Development: Guide the design principles, and development processes to ensure scalable, secure, and efficient solutions, collaborating with other senior leads.
• Operational Efficiency: Implement DevSecOps to streamline processes, tools, and workflows to optimize engineering operations and enhance productivity.

Requirements

• Experience: Proven experience (8+ years) in a senior/lead role within software development for web portals, APIs and mobile apps, with a strong technical background.

• Technical Acumen: Extensive knowledge of software development methodologies, source code management strategies, design patterns, DevOps, automation, and best practices. Ability to translate non-functional requirements such as availability, flexibility, stability, ease of maintenance and security.
• Technologies covered: Strong experience in implementing software using ReactJS framework, TypeScript, web servers, relational and non-relational databases, testing strategies. Experience with Server side rendering (Remix, Reactrouters, NextJS)
• Strong experience in building highly scalable APIs and/or microservices using Python / NodeJS / JVM (Java / Kotlin / Spring Boot).
• Experience with a cloud platform such as AWS and the services available in there to build and host the applications. Key services: S3, Lambda, CloudFront, API Gateway, DynamoDB / RDS, IAM, KMS. Experience with ECS/EKS, Docker and Kubernetes are an advantage.
• Experience in building well-architected cloud native solutions.
• Experience with building Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or CloudFormation is an advantage.
• Experience with building and deploying application code and configured CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Bamboo CI.
• Experience with working in agile teams and understood the concepts of iterative delivery, fail-early & fail-fast, continued improvements.
• Leadership Skills: Good leadership, mentoring, and communication skills to guide and inspire junior technical team members.
• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Optional: Global and regulatory landscapes: Understanding and experience of working practices across multiple geographies. Experience with regional nuances such as tax rules, regulatory interfaces, multi-currency, multi-language etc is an advantage.
• Aware of the concrete effects of architectural decisions – specifically microservice architecture – at the code level, in collaboration with other team members.

Desirable

• Experience of using Jira

About The Cigna Group