Architecture Senior Advisor

Cigna-Evernorth Services Inc. seeks an Architecture Senior Advisor for the Raleigh, NC location to build and maintain the architectural runway and technical foundation for developing Company initiatives and implementing new features and capabilities for delivery teams that implement and maintain applications for Company products.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in the continuous technical exploration process as part of the continuous delivery pipeline, including enabling Epics, defining subsystems and their interfaces, allocating responsibilities to subsystems, understanding solution deployment, and communicating requirements for interactions with solution context.

• Deliver and review System Architecture (SA) solutions for a specific application or a group of applications.

• Provide technical expertise through a hands-on mentoring approach to teams and projects, developing capabilities via the use of new technology and products, and maintaining a deep level of involvement with the agile development teams.

• Contribute to the Company’s application roadmaps, and support enterprise architecture product and capability roadmaps, which impacts across a group of systems and products.

• Support engineering and delivery teams in building and maintaining applications conformant to standards, architectures, and technologies.

• Support sizing efforts within the application domain assigned and provide leadership to organize and facilitate sizing efforts provided by the team, helping to ensure end-to-end solutions meet the business need.

• Present solutions, logical design direction, or technology recommendation to relevant stakeholders.

• Support performance volume stress testing for applications.

• Assist in creating and maintaining best practices, deliverables, and processes for the System Architecture team.

• Ensure solutions fit within project schedules and costs and provide optionality if necessary.

• Hybrid Work Schedule.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field and 5 years of experience as a Software Engineer, IT Analyst or related occupation.

• Experience with: Spring Integration along with MQ to read and process data;

• Working on TDD (Test Driven Development) processes by writing Junit test cases before implementation;

• Deploying projects into multiple environments including DEV/ SYS/ PVS/ PROD;

• Writing Cucumber (Specification by Example) scenarios for requirements;

• Developing Restful services as per business requirements; Using Eclipse for writing code and SVN for version control;

• Writing Maven scripts for building applications; Deploying applications using Linux (Mac OS terminal) in IT, UAT and production environments;

• Implementing complex modules using Java/J2EE frameworks including Spring, Hibernate, and web services;

• Using: Relational database design, BRMS Drools Rule Engine, Windows, Struts, Servlets, JavaScript, Ajax, SVN, MVC, WebSphere Server, and Apache Tomcat Server.

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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