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From the employer's careers site First seen 27 Oct 2026

Data Management Strategy & Governance Senior Advisor

The Cigna Group senior full-time

Salary

$115,200 - $192,000 per year

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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

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

Ready to apply?

You apply with the employer directly. Their original posting is here: https://cigna.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/cignacareers/job/United-States-Work-at-Home/Data-Ops---Lead-Data-Builder_26012696

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