Architecture Senior Advisor – Evernorth Health Services – Remote

The Solution Architecture function is responsible for developing IT solutions in support of business capabilities across the Evernorth Health Services IT Corporate Systems landscape. This Architecture Senior Advisor position is in the Evernorth Health Services IT Corporate Systems area.

As an Architecture Senior Advisor, you will be responsible for developing IT solutions within the Pricing and Underwriting team for Health Services – PBM. The initial focus of this role will be within our P&UW Next Gen Engine (NGE) team, focusing on improving our current forecasting system, and defining the future solution that will overcome the limitations of the existing system. You will spend the next year understanding the needs of the pharmacy products underwriting business and increasing the performance of the application running on Hadoop today. This includes understanding the workflow starting with Teradata source databases, the current ETL jobs that load data into Hadoop and the multiple workflow steps needed to leverage the various models created by the business. Ultimately, you will collaborate with the IT development team and the business to derive the future vision of the system and define the architecture that will accomplish this goal – looking towards the latest big data warehouses, modeling tools and cloud infrastructures.

In this Architecture Senior Advisor role, you will provide architecture direction to projects by providing direction, guidance and definition of solutions that are in alignment with enterprise architecture standards, principles, and strategic direction. Solution Architects work closely with cross-functional business teams in a consultative manner to drive new business and/or meet compliance requirements and work in close collaboration with multiple IT delivery team teams in a matrix environment to influence enhancements, design, and mutual understanding of business needs.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Participate in the creation of end-to-end solutions that align business needs and technology capabilities.
• Communicate the “big picture” to delivery teams.
• Participate in building delivery team consensus, and monitoring and facilitating execution of such solutions based on your architecture blueprints.
• Mitigate or resolve architecture risks and issues related to projects.
• Work with application and integration IT staff within application delivery teams and technology groups as necessary to ensure that solution design and deployment stay consistent with your architecture.
• Adopt and communicate new concepts, ideas, techniques, best practices and technology assistance
• Participate in technical research and analysis and make recommendations on potential solutions to meet business needs.
• Participate in vendor and tool selection in alignment with the solution architecture.
• Adhere to architecture and design standards, guidelines, and processes. Provide input to refine processes as needed.
• Create solutions that are appropriately sized to fit project time, budget, resource constraints.
• Create solutions that adhere to the security standards of the company.
• Work with vendors, other solutions architects and product owners to establish required infrastructures and frameworks, supporting product evaluations, and proof of concepts as needed.

Desired Qualifications

• 8+ years’ experience in a variety of IT roles including: Software Developer, Systems Analyst, Architect
• 2+ years’ experience in IT architecture
• Experience in Hadoop, Spark, Teradata, SQL, ETL
• Experience with other architecture frameworks for Big Data modeling and analytics
• Experience in Healthcare Insurance IT
• Agile development and architecture/delivery experience

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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