Software Engineering Senior Advisor- Hybrid

Software Engineering Senior Advisor

Cigna-Evernorth Services Inc. seeks a Software Engineering Senior Advisor for the Morris Plains, NJ location to design and develop a consolidated, conformed enterprise data warehouse and data lake, which stores all critical data across Customer, Provider, Claims, Client and Benefits data.

Responsibilities:

• Provide expert content and professional leadership on complex engineering assignments and projects.
• Design, develop and implement methods, processes, tools and analyses to sift through large amounts of data stored in a data warehouse or data mart to find relationships and patterns.
• Deliver end-to-end business software needs from concept to deployment.
• Participate in the delivery of the definitive enterprise information environment that enables strategic decision making capabilities across enterprise via analytics and reporting.
• Conceive, plan, and deliver initiatives.
• Provide thought leadership within Information Management while also working on broader projects that require understanding of wider business practices.
• Drive the adoption of CI/CD tools and support the improvement of tool sets/processes.
• Write software that successfully integrates and interfaces systems.
• Hybrid Work Schedule.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems or related field and 5 years of experience.
• Requires experience with:
  Working in/with clients in the healthcare or pharmacy benefit management industry;
• Performing cross functional system level design;
  Designing architecture and migrating the legacy Mainframe Enrollment and Eligibility file processing applications into AWS, Python, and Spark based framework for Modernization;
• Tracking and guiding continuous improvement of digital maturity for discovery, delivery, and engineering practices;
  Using Jira for project management to track all phases of software development;
• Conducting causal analysis to identify root causes;
  Completing project lifecycle including project planning, scope/ schedule/ resource/finance/stakeholder management, and cross functional team management;
• Planning project approach, KPIs, and metrics for Project Tracking, Reporting, and Managing Financials;
  Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, Daily Scrum, Show and Tell, and Retrospection;
• Using IBM Mainframe and Electronic Data Interchange technologies to design system architecture, guide and review technical delivery by internal teams, and resolve architecture issues;
• Writing and modifying complex software application programs;
  Developing and supporting the parallel execution flow while the migration is in progress and until successful launch of the migration;
• Building Regression test frameworks, automating legacy manual processes in QA testing, and developing productivity/ Automation tools based on Rexx, ISPF, and Hiperstation;
• Building new CICS regions from scratch;
  Working with CICS, DBA, and Mainframe infrastructure teams to perform sanity tests;
  Automating existing manual tasks using REXX, ISPF, and CA 7;
• Reviewing and monitoring all phases of software engineering including requirements analysis, design, code development, and testing and implementation; and
• Using:
  Cobol, JCL, DB2, Web Services, IBM Rational Developer for z systems, Electronic Data Interchange, Mercator, WTX
  8.2, and Abinito, Restful Microservices, REST APIs, library calls, and database queries.

Salary Range: $166,754-$217,000/year