Architecture Director – DevOps & AWS – The Cigna Group- Hybrid

Please note, this requires someone to be local to a Cigna Group office, Preferably Bloomfield, CT. If not local to Bloomfield, candidates must be willing to travel to there on a 1-2 times per quarter basis

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Architecting and Designing a secure AWS Enterprise cloud platform for USM E2E based on Cigna COE standards, best practices and guidelines
• Comprehensive knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks, tools, and processes
• Able to coach and mentor colleagues on architectural frameworks, patterns & best practices
• Deep knowledge of service-oriented and event-driven architectures
• Hands-on experience in cloud engineering and cloud-native design
• Extensive understanding of DevOps best practices and introducing continuous automation into the application lifecycle (CI/CD pipeline)
• Experienced with industry standard programming languages, operating systems, application development frameworks, monitoring tools, and CI/CT/CD tools
• Responsible for adapting cloud technologies and drive automation needs for Client Value Stream
• Determine technical standards and specifications and lead the architecture, design, build and support of shared services cloud platform components
• Lead the performance COE team and responsible for performance enhancements and stabilization initiatives.
• Responsible for create and maintain product/software road maps. .
• Provides engineering leadership and oversight on the design, engineering and development of Client Value Stream technology solutions
• Create end-to-end Solutions that maximize alignment with target states and reuse of IT assets
• Work closely with cross-functional business teams in a consultative manner to drive new business and/or meet compliance requirements
• Work in close collaboration with multiple IT delivery teams in a matrix environment to influence enhancements, design, and mutual understanding of business need
• Provides technical expertise to teams and projects, developing capabilities via the use of new technology and products and maintaining a deep level of involvement with the development teams.
• Responsible for building delivery team consensus, and monitoring and facilitating execution of such Solutions; ensure solutions fit within project schedules and costs, providing options when required
• Support sizing efforts within the application domains assigned and provide leadership to organize and facilitate sizing efforts provided by the team, helping to insure end to end solutions meet the business need.
• Align the Value Stream and Agile Release Trains (ARTs) to a common technological and architectural vision
• Establish critical Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs) at the Solution level
• Work with portfolio stakeholders, particularly Enterprise Architecture and Cloud CoE, to develop, analyze, split, and realize the implementation of Enabler Epics
• Participate in Program Increment (PI) Planning as needed, Pre- and Post-PI Planning, System and Solution Demos, and I&As
• Maintains updated architecture vision and decisions on Confluence
• Assists in creating and maintaining best practices, deliverables, and processes for the System Architecture team.

Critical Leadership Competencies:

• Strategic Mindset – Seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies
• Mentoring Talent – Developing engineers to grow their skill set and align to the organization’s goals
• Cultivates Innovation – Creating new and better ways for the organization to be successful
• Drives Results – Pushes team and cross functional partners to deliver needed results in tough circumstances and expedited timelines
• Manages Complexity – Makes sense of complex and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems
• Manages Ambiguity – Operates effectively and drives work forward even when things are not certain or there is no clear way forward
• Instills Trust – Quickly gains confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity

Required Experience / Qualifications:

This position requires a highly motivated and collaborative person with exceptional communication skills, proven experience working with diverse teams of technical architects, business users and IT areas on all phases of the software development life-cycle.

• 12 years of progressively responsible experience or Masters with 4 years of experience in building and implementing model- guided, enterprise-level business solutions
• Experience with AWS Services including Glue, Lambda, Step Functions, EKS, Event Bridge, SQS, SNS, S3, and RDS.
• Experience designing with a security framework such as the AWS well-Architected Framework.
• Experience with Apache Spark and Kafka.
• Strong knowledge of Data Integration (e.g. Streaming, Batch, Error and Replay) and data analysis techniques.
• Building and scaling RDBMS (Postgres,Aurora postgres,Oracle) and NOSQL systems (Mongo,DocumentDB/Dynamodb) systems to Multi-terabyte scale .
• Experience developing with containers (e.g. Docker, EKS, OpenShift, etc.).
• Experience with GitHub, Jenkins, and Terraform.
• Experience with Security Concepts (e.g. Encryption, Identity, etc.).
• Experience with Replication technologies like Qlik,IIDR ,Golden gate and replicate the data from On premise to cloud .
• Knowledge of AWS technology stack and solution patterns
• Experience in software development phases including design, configuration, testing, debugging, implementation, and support of large-scale, business centric and process based applications
• Experience in a variety of technologies including, but not limited to, Pega, AWS, Oracle

Desired Experience / Qualifications:

• Dedication to achieving outstanding customer results
• Exceptional interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate, partner and collaborate with others
• Quick learner with excellent time management, and organization skills with the ability to manage multiple competing priorities
• AWS certification solutions Architect

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.