Software Engineering Manager - HIH - Evernorth

Location: Hyderabad, India

Remote Type: Hybrid

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

NTRODUCTION TO EVERNORTH: 

Evernorth Health Services India, established in Hyderabad in 2024, is an innovation hub for Evernorth Health Services, the pharmacy, care and benefits division of The Cigna Group. The innovation hub will support innovation-focused areas, such as generative AI, product development, process improvement, analytics, and software engineering across The Cigna Group and its businesses.  Evernorth Health Services India builds on The Cigna Group’s existing presence in India.

About Evernorth Health Services:

Evernorth Health Services (Evernorth) is the pharmacy, care and benefits solution division of The Cigna Group - a Fortune 16 global health company with 75,000 employees, 186 million customers in more than 30 countries and jurisdictions around the world. Evernorth exists to make the prediction, prevention, and treatment of illness and disease more accessible to millions of people. We do this by creating and connecting premier health services offerings, such as benefits management, pharmacy, care solutions, insights and intelligence.

About Cigna:

The Cigna Group is a global health company committed to improving the health and vitality of individuals and communities around the world and includes products and services marketed under its Cigna Healthcare and Evernorth Health Services subsidiaries. Cigna Healthcare is the health benefits provider of The Cigna Group, serving customers and clients through its U.S. Employer, U.S. Government, and International Health business. Evernorth Health Services is the pharmacy, care and benefits solution division of The Cigna Group.

Software Engineering Manager - HIH - Evernorth

Position Overview

In this role, you will provide hands-on software engineering leadership for one of our Evernorth delivery teams. You will be working on several of the largest Technology initiatives for Evernorth℠ targeted at revolutionizing Health Services and Healthcare Delivery system in the United States. The focus of the work is to continue to enhance our market-winning capabilities.

The Evernorth℠ Technology strategy is fully aligned with our business strategy, resulting in an opportunity for you to influence in various directions – this includes technology/business direction but also recruiting and mentoring employees and influencing selection of and relationships with vendor resources to ultimately build and contribute within a world-class Delivery Vertical.

Responsibilities

• Provides leadership, vision, and architectural/design direction for the team.
• Leads the team in troubleshooting and problem resolution.
• Aligns engineering solutions with the Technology strategy and supports the application’s requirements.
• Plans and implements procedures to maximize engineering and operating efficiency for application integration technologies.
• Identifies opportunities and drives process improvements.
• Takes accountability for the technology assets owned by the team.
• Provides leadership to the team to achieve the following objectives:
• Design, configuration, and implementation of middleware products and application design/development within the supported technologies and products.
• Proactive monitoring and management design of supported assets assuring performance, availability, security, and capacity.
• Maximize the efficiency (operational, performance, and cost) of the application assets.
• Manage and mentor a team of engineers (8–15) at the Hyderabad center, ensuring delivery excellence and adherence to Agile practices.
• Solution design and implementation for applications using Java/Spring Boot, Angular, React, RESTful APIs, Oracle, and Python.
• Work on front-end development using Angular for responsive and user-friendly interfaces.
• Drive integration with payment gateways, ensuring compliance with PCI-DSS and secure transaction flows.
• Collaborate with Product, Architecture, and QA teams to translate business requirements into technical deliverables.

Qualifications

Required Skills:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to interact with all levels of the organization.
• Strong influencing/negotiation skills.
• Strong interpersonal/relationship management skills.
• Strong time and project management skills.
• Strong experience on following technologies: Angular, React, REST APIs,Python, Oracle.
• Familiarity with Agile methodology.
• Familiarity with modern delivery practices such as continuous integration, test-driven development, and specification by example.
• Understanding of payment gateway integrations and secure coding practices.

Required Experience & Education: 

• 11-13 years of experience in software engineering.
• 2–4 years of proven experience leading/managing technical teams with a passion for developing talent.
• Experience with vendor management in an onshore/offshore model.
• Proven experience with architecture, design, and development of large-scale enterprise application solutions.
• College degree (Bachelor) in related technical/business areas or equivalent work experience.

Desired Experience:  

• Exposure to AWS 
• Healthcare experience including Disease Management
• Coaching of team members

Location & Hours of Work

Based location is Hyderabad Development Center. Standard business hours with flexibility to support global stakeholders as needed.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Evernorth is an Equal Opportunity Employer actively encouraging and supporting organization-wide involvement of staff in diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts to educate, inform and advance both internal practices and external work with diverse client populations.

About Evernorth Health Services