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

Application Development Senior Advisor

Salary

$193,461-$203,600 per year

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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

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