Senior .NET Software Engineer

Overview Cigna International Health is initiating a project to develop a cutting-edge global mobile solution to bolster the expansion of our health businesses across the globe. We’re actively seeking accomplished leaders to champion our vision and steer us towards building a mobile platform for serving Cigna’s customers all over the world. We are seeking an experienced Software Engineering to drive our front-end software development efforts in creating high-quality mobile solutions. The ideal candidate will engineer technical solutions, produce clean code, and ensure successful delivery of software solutions aligned with business goals. Responsibilities Technical Leadership: Provide direction and be responsible for the output of backend discipline within Application Development. Implement software engineering strategy, ensuring that it aligns with the overall business and product objectives. Own the frontend application development capability for our global mobile solution aligned with the product vision as defined by the global mobile solution product owner. Contribute to the definition of applications development policies, standards, and procedures. Team Leadership: Lead, mentor, and manage junior software development team members, fostering a culture of innovation, automation, collaboration, and excellence. Responsible for career development and performance management of junior software development team members. Project Delivery: Execute software projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, within budget, and meet quality standards. Develop solutions using TDD or event driven methodology. Execute project plans and application designs to ensure projects are aligned with standards and IT strategy. Allocate appropriate resources to ensure that projects are completed within committed time and budget and are integrated with other software applications. Architecture and Development: Guide the design principles, and development processes to ensure scalable, secure, and efficient solutions, collaborating with other senior leads. Operational Efficiency: Implement DevSecOps to streamline processes, tools, and workflows to optimize engineering operations and enhance productivity. Requirements Experience: Proven experience (7 years) in a senior role within software development for commercial software products, with a strong technical background. Technical Acumen: Extensive knowledge of software development methodologies, source code management strategies, design patterns, DevSecOps, automation, and best practices. Ability to translate non-functional requirements such as availability, flexibility, stability, ease of maintenance and security. Experience in building restful microservices is also required. Technologies covered: Experience of implementing software using Enterprise .NET technologies (.NET 5+), web based and desktop clients, application servers, relational and non-relational databases, container-based services (such as Docker, Kubernetes), service-bus solutions, testing strategies. Leadership Skills: Good leadership, mentoring, and communication skills to guide and inspire junior technical team members. Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field. Global and regulatory landscapes: Understanding and experience of working practices across multiple geographies. Experience with regional nuances such as tax rules, regulatory interfaces, multi-currency, multi-language etc is an advantage. Aware of the concrete effects of architectural decisions – specifically microservice architecture – at the code level, in collaboration with other team members. Desirable Microsoft .NET Core Certified Experience of using Microsoft Azure DevOps tools Experience of using Jira About The Cigna Group Cigna Healthcare, a division of The Cigna Group, is an advocate for better health through every stage of life. We guide our customers through the health care system, empowering them with the information and insight they need to make the best choices for improving their health and vitality. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.