# Application Development Senior Advisor

**Company**: Cigna-Evernorth Services Inc.
**Location**: Morris Plains, NJ
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $193,461-$203,600
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Cigna-Evernorth Services Inc. seeks an Application Development Senior Advisor for the Morris Plains, NJ location to develop real-time and batch processing data pipelines to enhance Cigna's digital experiences and analytics.

Responsibilities:

- Develop solutions using tools in AWS, Databricks, Airflow, Redshift, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, RDS, Snowflake, and Machine Learning tools.

- Develop production data pipelines using Spark with Scala, Python, SQL, and implementing machine learning algorithms on Databricks and AWS.

- Participate in architectural decision-making processes for data pipelines and implement advanced analytics solutions, ensuring alignment with organisational goals.

- Assemble large and complex data sets, ensuring that all functional and analytics business requirements are met with high quality and performance standards.

- Utilise Generative AI tools to automatically generate comprehensive descriptions for data tables and columns and ingest the generated metadata into the Collibra Data Catalog via APIs.

- Demonstrate experience in implementing data governance and access control within the Healthcare domain.

- Configure Immuta to enable column-level masking for PII and PHI, as well as row-level security.

- Lead the adoption of Gen AI-enhanced development pipelines with Cursor AI, focusing on advanced debugging, code generation, and context-aware engineering across multi-file projects.

- Apply expert prompt engineering techniques to improve the reliability and performance of AI-driven data workflows.

- Continuously test and refine prompts to achieve optimal outcomes.

- Manage GitHub repositories and GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines to automate deployment of Databricks jobs and notebooks.

- Collaborate with stakeholders, including executive leadership, product, and engineering teams, to resolve data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs.

- Mentor, collaborate and upskill junior engineers with translating complex business requirements into scalable data solutions to ensure team-wide technical excellence.

Qualifications:

- Master's degree Computer Science, Business Analytics or related field and 3 years of experience. Will accept a Bachelor's degree and 5 years of experience.

- Must have experience with: developing and managing scalable ETL pipelines, collaborative analytics workflows, and production-grade data solutions using PySpark;

- Leveraging AWS S3 for storage and integration;

- Writing advanced SQL queries for data extraction, transformation, and analysis within large-scale data environments;

- Designing and implementing logical and physical data models;

- Applying best practices for schema design;

- Maintaining enterprise-level data warehouses with reliable ETL processes;

- Orchestrating, monitoring, and optimising big data pipelines for the ingestion, transformation, and quality assurance of high-volume data across distributed computing frameworks; and

- Troubleshooting, optimising query performance and execution plans, and resource allocation for large-scale datasets.

Benefits:

- Comprehensive range of benefits, including medical, vision, dental, and well-being and behavioural health programs

- 401(k)

- Company-paid life insurance

- Tuition reimbursement

- Minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year

- Paid holidays and leaves of absence

## Skills

### Required
- AWS
- Databricks
- Airflow
- Redshift
- DynamoDB
- Elasticsearch
- RDS
- Snowflake
- Machine Learning
- Spark
- Scala
- Python
- SQL
- PySpark
- AWS S3
- Collibra Data Catalog
- GitHub
- Cursor AI

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