Description
Cigna-Evernorth Services Inc. seeks a Software Engineering Senior Advisor for the Seattle, WA location to lead a platform team in the software design, development, and quality testing of REST-based entity services for next-generation service architecture.
Responsibilities:
- Act as the lead developer on one or more scrum teams responsible for designing and developing services implementing REST-based Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).
- Collaborate with technical managers, architects, and subject matter experts to define and refine requirements and API specifications, analyze existing business services and data stores, create detailed designs, write code and unit tests, conduct code reviews and code refactoring, and mentor other team members.
- Partner with architects to set the direction for maturing use of, retiring, and adding technology components in the Evernorth (ESI) environment.
- Work with technical managers and scrum masters to communicate status, plan sprints and milestones, align sprints to business needs, break stories into tasks, provide estimates, and ensure development efforts are focused and aligned with stories.
- Collaborate with the Quality Assurance (QA) team and developers to define and implement test strategies, ensure quality, lead efforts to develop standard practices, components, and guidelines for complex technology components, and resolve urgent issues with production services.
Qualifications:
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field and 2 years of experience as a Senior Technical Consultant, Technical Consultant, Web Developer, or a related occupation.
- Alternatively, a Bachelor's degree and 4 years of experience.
- Experience with:
- Working in/with clients in the healthcare or pharmacy benefit management industry;
- Working on AWS cloud migration for Audit data service from on-prem Postgres to Aurora DB;
- Developing One-time load data migration tools in Python to migrate existing on-prem terabytes of data into Aurora DB;
- Developing data synchronization pipelines to process real-time data from Apache Kafka topics;
- Optimizing API service response time within SLA by improving Mongo queries and indexes;
- Developing Data Verification Tools to reconcile data between different sources and target DB;
- Designing effective data pipelines to transform data, perform data integrity checks, and process retry errors or failures;
- Developing update processors to handle data with high throughput and low latency using Kafka Confluent;
- Implementing Mongo change streams on MongoDB to transform real-time events into Data Lake;
- Building Restful APIs in Spring Boot using cloud-based Microservices architecture;
- Developing a common Authorization service using Spring Security;
- Setting up infrastructure for Disaster Recovery Environment;
- Utilizing GitHub for managing work, including issue tracking, pull request reviews, and version control;
- Implementing secure authentication mechanisms and managing user permissions to protect resources using OAuth2.0;
- Writing unit tests using JUnit framework;
- Implementing PostgreSQL database as a backend database for persistent Portal data;
- Using Spring data repository framework to convert business requirements into database queries;
- Working in Agile environments;
- Using Java development, data models, sequence diagrams, class diagrams, Java Data Base Connectivity (JDBC), Structured Query Language (SQL), NoSQL, Scrum, Maven, REST-based services, Cloud/VM infrastructure and technologies, and modern IDEs.
Benefits:
- Comprehensive range of benefits, including medical, vision, dental, and well-being and behavioral health programs;
- 401(k);
- Company-paid life insurance;
- Tuition reimbursement;
- Minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year;
- Paid holidays;
- Leaves of absence.