# Data Management Strategy & Governance Senior Advisor

**Company**: The Cigna Group
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $115,200 - $192,000 per year
**Category**: Data Science
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The Data Management Strategy & Governance Senior Advisor role involves building trusted, reusable data products through MVP that are production-grade. You will report to the Senior Director, Data Operations & Data Management, and work closely with Data Architecture, Data Analysis, Products & Integration, and other stakeholders.

Key responsibilities include:

- Building architecture's designs and analysis's requirements into production-ready solutions through MVP

- Working with new and unfamiliar data to create working solutions that answer business questions

- Refactoring learning-stage and bespoke work into durable, reusable, production-ready assets

- Building physical Silver structures to the enterprise-agnostic Silver model and reference patterns designed by Data Architecture

- Implementing designs faithfully and promoting them to production through governed CI/CD pipelines

- Capturing business context and metadata at build, and handing off to trusted partner teams as readiness allows

- Delivering Gold solutions through build-through-MVP, promoted to production-grade through governed CI/CD pipelines

- Upholding build standards and guardrails for Gold solutions

- Applying AI and automation to accelerate build and testing without bypassing governance, security, or quality expectations

- Partnering with Data Architecture, Data Analysis, Products & Integration, Platform Engineering / IT, and data science and business analytics teams

Requirements include:

- 7+ years building production-grade data solutions

- A genuine 50/50 blend of business fluency and hands-on engineering discipline

- Hands-on experience with Databricks, Spark, Unity Catalog, SQL, and Python

- Familiarity with Snowflake and Teradata

- Expert knowledge of dimensional and medallion (Silver / Gold) modeling

- Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, automated code evaluation, and controlled promotion to production

- Strong software-engineering discipline

- Performance-tuning and cost-optimizing Spark and SQL transformations at scale

- Familiarity with data governance and cataloging tooling such as Collibra

- Automated data-quality testing and validation built into every solution

- Demonstrated ability to learn a new data domain fast and turn business logic into reusable data products

- Demonstrated ability to apply AI and automation to accelerate build while preserving quality and governance

The salary range for this position is $115,200 - $192,000 per year, depending on experience and geographic location. The role is also eligible to participate in an annual bonus plan.

Benefits include medical, vision, dental, and well-being and behavioral health programs, 401(k), company-paid life insurance, tuition reimbursement, a minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year, paid holidays, and leaves of absence.

## Skills

### Required
- Databricks
- Spark
- Unity Catalog
- SQL
- Python
- Snowflake
- Teradata
- Collibra

### Nice to have
- dimensional and medallion (Silver / Gold) modeling
- CI/CD pipelines
- automated code evaluation
- controlled promotion to production
- performance-tuning and cost-optimizing Spark and SQL transformations

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