Software Engineering Lead Analyst

ABOUT EVERNORTH: 

Evernorth℠ exists to elevate health for all, because we believe health is the starting point for human potential and progress. As champions for affordable, predictable and simple health care,
we solve the problems others don’t, won’t or can’t. 

Our innovation hub in India will allow us to work with the right talent, expand our global footprint, improve our competitive stance, and better deliver on our promises to stakeholders. We are passionate about making healthcare better by delivering world-class solutions that make a real difference.

We are always looking upward. And that starts with finding the right talent to help us get there.

Position Overview

The job profile for this position is Software Engineering Lead Analyst, which is a Band 3 Contributor Career Track Role.

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Summary

Join Evernorth’ s Engineering Acceleration team in the software engineering excellence organization as a Full Stack Engineer. The team build automated solutions and best practices that are fully architected, built and tested repeatable processes and templates. 

The role of the Senior System Architect / Senior Software Engineer is an opportunity for a proven leader and technical expert in application delivery to help set and execute the design, engineering standards, and delivery processes, across Payment Integrity Solutions in the Provider Technology organization.

Responsibilities

As a Senior member of the team, the candidate will work with a highly Agile team to develop, execute, validate, and maintain a suite of integrated software products. The candidate must be passionate about technology and is always looking to further their personal knowledge and expertise.  The ideal team member will be creative, responsive, flexible, and willing to participate in an open and collaborative peer environment. The candidate enjoys working in a team of high performers, who hold each other accountable to perform to their very best and does not shy away from opportunities to provide and take feedback amongst their fellow team members. 

Researches and evaluates alternative solutions and recommends the most efficient and cost-effective solution. Documents, tests, implements, and provides on-going support for the applications. Focuses on providing thought leadership and technical expertise across multiple disciplines. This role will focus on the achievement of departmental objectives and financial goals. Will play a significant part in achieving functional/technical delivery to our business, ensuring that priorities are met, and appropriate business value is delivered.

For role at offshore (HIH, Cigna), the engineer in this position will focus on wiring the automated solutions with customer teams, closely collaborate with app teams to resolve their questions/issues/blockers, thus enjoy articulating the results of troubleshooting in clear actionable manner. This person will also take on maintenance of completed products/future releases and MVPs as bandwidth allows. 

Be hands-on in the designing of robust solutions to hard problems, while considering scale, security, reliability, and costSupport other product delivery partners in the successful build, test, and release of solutions.Work with distributed requirements and technical stakeholders to complete shared design and development.Support the full software lifecycle of design, development, testing, and support for technical delivery.Actively participate in agile ceremonies and/or team-based eventsWork with Product Owners and the team to understand the business value and break down the feature as stories.Review user stories/requirements to identify ambiguities.Possess awesome technical abilities that will enable you to significantly improve product quality and time to market.Communicate clearly, concisely, and effectively for your audience.Collaborate across teams and departments to help to create best practices.Identify defects and write reproducible bug reports following team standards for defects.Proactively lead team members on all aspects of software engineering.Drive innovation in the organization.Make presentations on software technologies, frameworks, and patterns to the organization.Innovation leader that pushes creative ideas for meeting the organization's strategic goals and fostering an environment that inspires and facilitates innovative thinking.Focus on continuous learning and technical skill development through knowledge of new applications and methods.Ability to think outside of the box to simplify the current environment for better manageability and support.Ability to map current initiatives to refactor existing applications code as needed.Participate in building key frameworks, including DevOps/testing automation, and patterns that promote modularity, configurability, reusability, reliability, and telemetry (aligned to DP's principles).Ensures all non-production environments have appropriate level of data to support development and testing activities.Assess software delivery throughput (velocity) and code stability (quality).Leverage UML diagrams.Promote the usage of code quality and code security analyzers, like Checkmarx.Implement threshold checks for unit test coverages within the CI/CD pipeline.Perform thorough code reviews.

Skills & Preferred Qualifications:

Strong programming experience in Java with a deep understanding of best practices.Hands-on experience with Spring Boot, Python, and Node.js.Experience in microservices architecture and cloud-native development.Familiarity with containerization tools like Docker and Kubernetes.Proficiency in version control and CI/CD tools like Git and Jenkins.Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills.Understanding of cloud services such as AWS (S3, Lambda, VPC, Aurora, Glue) is a plus.Knowledge of API development and integration using RESTful services.Experience with Agile methodologies like Scrum or SAFe.Strong communication and collaboration skills.Ability to document technical solutions clearly.

Required Experience & Education:

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience).5 to 8 years of hands-on experience in software development.Experience in designing and developing scalable enterprise applications.Exposure to working in Agile teams and collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders.Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive mindset.

This role is ideal for a mid-level engineer looking to take on greater responsibility in designing, developing, and delivering high-quality software solutions. It provides an opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies while contributing to a collaborative and fast-paced engineering team.

Location & Hours of Work

Full-time position, working 40 hours per week. Expected overlap with US hours as appropriatePrimarily based in the Innovation Hub in Hyderabad, India in a hybrid working model (3 days WFO and 2 days WAH)

Equal Opportunity Statement

Evernorth is an Equal Opportunity Employer actively encouraging and supporting organization-wide involvement of staff in diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts to educate, inform and advance both internal practices and external work with diverse client populations

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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.