Application Development Director at Cigna in Plano, Texas

Job Description:

As a Director in Data Management Services Engineering for Cigna Government Technology, this role will be an engineering leader who leads, innovates and provides strategic direction for a team high caliber engineers. The ideal candidate will build and provide direction on Architecture, Development and Delivery of large scale platforms with a range of cutting edge technologies. This role will require passion and deep technology knowledge with hands-on development experience.

• Innovative thinker inspiring the engineering organization and brings passion in building engineering platforms
  
  


• Responsible for inspiring employee development and coaching of direct and indirect reports by leveraging strengths within the team and addressing their areas of improvement
  
  


• Develop diverse and engaged teams that have the skills and drive to deliver scalable technology products that meet business requirements (i.e., functional, performance, technical, etc...), testing strategies, release processes, and steer the technology strategy
  
  


• Passionate about building highly scalable and available platforms
  
  


• Build reusable platforms which can be federated across the organization
  
  


• Cultivate, engage, and empower engineering teams that are aligned around the core business and technology strategies to support the business needs; convey a technical strategic vision for the team
  
  


• Drives cultural, technological, and methodology transformation in line with the broader Government organization, and business strategy/transformation.
  
  


• Able to respond to urgent organizational issues without losing focus on longer-term deliverables, operations and metrics
  
  


• Balance a wide-range of initiatives and manage relationships with other technology leaders
  
  


• Evaluate and implement packaged technology solutions into the broader technical ecosystem
  
  


• Balancing demand vs. capacity to support timely delivery of prioritized organizational needs
  
  


• Partner with the enterprise technology teams within Cigna, vendors, program governance, and business teams to ensure implementations run smoothly
  
  


• Develops and implements a robust governance framework that drives transparency and consistent quality across deliveries
  
  


• Develop a deep understanding of the key business drivers to validate that initiatives, and any associated changes, meet the desired targets.
  
  


• Lead special initiatives as required to support business / technology goals. Conduct due diligence on assigned projects/issues, identify course of action and make recommendations, and execute as appropriate.
  
  


• Define staffing strategy for the scope of responsibility including budget planning
  
  


• Deliver performance reviews and development plans for staff; recognizing technical and leadership development opportunities and addressing them through mentoring and other mechanisms
  
  


• Manage existing and future infrastructure and solutions.
  
  


• Actively champion the transition to agile.
  
  

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field
  
  


• 10+ years in inspiring, coaching, building and growing highly performant large software engineering teams
  
  


• Extensive engineering leadership experience working in a wide range of technologies such as building APIs, Streaming, Data Management applications.
  
  


• 5+ years in leading, building and managing large Data Warehouse and Analytics platforms with hands-on coding experience (TeraData)
  
  


• Experience leading and building Data Lake and Analytics in AWS is a plus
  
  


• 5+ years' experience in Agile Methodology
  
  


• 3+ years hands on experience working with Amazon Web Services (API Gateway, Lambda, Glue, S3)
  
  


• 5+ years' experience with building modern applications using micro services based architecture
  
  


• 3+ years' experience with programming languages such as JAVA, NodeJS, Python, Scala
  
  


• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift
  
  


• 3+ years' experience with streaming platforms (Kafka)
  
  


• 3+ years' experience with NoSQL database such as ElasticSearch, MongoDB, Cassandra
  
  


• Proficiency with CI/CD, DevOps
  
  

About Cigna
Cigna Corporation (NYSE: CI) is a global health service company dedicated to improving the health, well-being and peace of mind of those we serve. We offer an integrated suite of health services through Cigna, Express Scripts, and our affiliates including medical, dental, behavioral health, pharmacy, vision, supplemental benefits, and other related products. Together, with our 74,000 employees worldwide, we aspire to transform health services, making them more affordable and accessible to millions. Through our unmatched expertise, bold action, fresh ideas and an unwavering commitment to patient-centered care, we are a force of health services innovation.
When you work with Cigna, you'll enjoy meaningful career experiences that enrich people's lives while working together to make the world a healthier place. What difference will you make? To see our culture in action, search #TeamCigna on Instagram.
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.