HIH – Software Engineering Advisor

Position Overview

In this role, you will provide hands-on software engineering and system architecture leadership for one of our Behavioral Health and Care Solutions Delivery teams. You will be working on several of the largest Technology initiatives for Evernorth℠ targeted at revolutionizing Health Services and Healthcare Delivery system in the United States. The focus of the work is to continue to enhance our market winning capabilities in the Behavioral Health and Care Solutions space.

The Evernorth℠Technology strategy is fully aligned with our business strategy, resulting in an opportunity for you to influence in various directions – this includes technology\business direction but also recruiting and mentoring employees and influencing selection of and relationships with vendor resources to ultimately build and contribute within a world class Delivery Vertical.

This is a hands-on position with visibility to the highest levels of Evernorth℠ management who are motivated to see the successful results of our efforts. The solution focuses on enabling this change using the latest technologies and development techniques including Mainframe, web, and distributed technologies.

Responsibilities

• Provides leadership, vision, and architectural/design direction for the team.
• Leads the team in troubleshooting and problem resolution.
• Aligns engineering solutions with the Technology strategy and supports the application's requirements.
• Plans and implements procedures to maximize engineering and operating efficiency for application integration technologies.
• Identifies opportunities and drives process improvements.
• Takes accountability for the technology assets owned by the team.
• Provides leadership to the team to achieve the following objectives:
• 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.

Qualifications

Required Skills:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to interact with all levels of the organization.
• Strong influencing/negotiation skills.
• Strong interpersonal/relationship management skills.
• Strong time and project management skills.
• Proficient in programming languages such as Cobol, C#, Java or similar languages.
• Experience with software development methodologies and practices (Agile, Scrum, etc.).
• Strong knowledge of system analysis, Architecture and design.
• Experience with modern delivery practices such as continuous integration, behavior/test driven development, and specification by example.

Required Experience & Education:

• 8-10 years of experience in years of experience
• At least 3-4 years of proven experience leading/managing technical teams with a passion for the developing the talent within the team.
• Experience with vendor management in an onshore/offshore model.
• Proven experience with architecture, design, and development of large-scale enterprise application solutions.
• College degree (Bachelor) in related technical/business areas or equivalent work experience.
• Industry certifications such as PMP, Scrum Master, or Six Sigma Green Belt

Desired Experience:

• Exposure to AWS
• Exposure to Mainframe, SQL
• Healthcare experience
• Coaching of team members

About Evernorth Health Services

Evernorth Health Services, a division of The Cigna Group, creates pharmacy, care and benefit solutions to improve health and increase vitality. We relentlessly innovate to make the prediction, prevention and treatment of illness and disease more accessible to millions of people. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.