Application Development Advisor - Evernorth - Remote

Must be a current contractor with Cigna Healthcare, Evernorth Health Services, or one of their subsidiaries.

The divestiture of Cigna Group Insurance has created several opportunities for highly energetic, enthusiastic, and savvy individuals who thrive in a fast-paced environment oriented around growth of the Supplemental Health Benefits.  Candidates will need to have expertise in software engineering as well as Agile SDLC.

Responsibilities:

• Provide Daily-To-Day Technical Leadership and direction for the assigned scrum team
• Demonstrated skill in using coding standards, reusable code and being an active participant in code reviews.
• Strong understanding of development and testing techniques and toolset.
• Design, configuration, 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
• Analytical Skills: Candidate must be able to recognize the needs of customers and create simple solutions that answer those needs.
• Communication: Candidate must be able to clearly communicate their ideas to peers, stakeholders, and management.
• Creativity: Creativity is needed to help invent new ways of approaching problems and developing innovative applications as well as bringing experience from other industries.
• Customer-Service: If dealing directly with clients and customers, candidate would need good customer service skills and consultant mentality to answer questions and fix issues.

Required Qualifications:

• Typically 10+ years of solid, diverse work experience in IT with a minimum of five years' experience in application development.
• Experience with the following domains:
  • Oracle, Apex, PL/SQL, and MS VBA
• Experience with Agile development (SCRUM methodology) desired
• Experience leading a team in collaborative development of prototypes for demonstration of concepts
• Problem-Solving: As issues come up, candidate must be able to make decisions that move the project forward.
• Teamwork: Candidate must work well with others as part of a distributed agile (SAFe) team of developers, analysts, QA, and more.
• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science, MIS, or other related field, or equivalent work experience
• Should be very familiar with advanced concepts and have relevant, hands-on experience in many of the following areas to be a successful contributor on the team:
  • Complex Event Processing
  • OOP or Enterprise Integration Patterns
  • Service Oriented Architecture (event-driven SOA, Web Services, REST, ESB)
  • Database development & tuning (Oracle, DB2, and SQL Server)
  • Performance (threading, indexing, clustering, caching)
  • Document-centric data architecture (XML DB/NoSQL/JSON)
  • UI development (APEX)

• Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with one or more of the following domains:
  • Java, Angular, Restful Services, and Pega PRPC
  • Data Stage, .NET, SQL Server, and TFS
• Technical Leadership and experience leading a team delivering multiple projects at a time.
• Reverse engineering systems specifications / code analysis to refine functional understanding or performing impact assessment
• Should be very familiar with advanced concepts and have relevant, hands-on experience in many of the following areas to be a successful contributor on the team:
  • Message driven architecture (JMS, SOA, Spring, Red Hat Fuse, Camel)
  • Transaction Management
  • UI development (HTML5, Angular, Bootstrap)
• Attention to Detail: Applications have many parts and all must work together for the application to function.

Must be a current contractor with Cigna Healthcare, Evernorth Health Services, or one of their subsidiaries.

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.

For this position, we anticipate offering an annual salary of 93,300 - 155,500 USD / yearly, depending on relevant factors, including experience and geographic location.

This role is also anticipated to be eligible to participate in an annual bonus plan.

We want you to be healthy, balanced, and feel secure. That’s why you’ll enjoy a comprehensive range of benefits, with a focus on supporting your whole health. Starting on day one of your employment, you’ll be offered several health-related benefits including medical, vision, dental, and well-being and behavioral health programs. We also offer 401(k) with company match, company paid life insurance, tuition reimbursement, a minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year and paid holidays. For more details on our employee benefits programs, visit Life at Cigna Group.

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.

If you require reasonable accommodation in completing the online application process, please email: SeeYourself@cigna.com for support. Do not email SeeYourself@cigna.com for an update on your application or to provide your resume as you will not receive a response.

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.