Senior Architecture Advisor

6 days ago


Bloomfield, Connecticut, United States Cigna Full time
About the Role

Cigna, a leading health insurance company, is seeking a highly experienced Senior Architecture Advisor to join our Individual & Family Plans (IFP) IT Team. As a key member of our team, you will play a critical role in delivering value to the business through your deep understanding of business functions, technology landscape, and ability to influence others.

Key Responsibilities
  • Ensure that IT solutions align with defined business strategies and execute plans that meet long-term objectives, architecture runway, and market needs.
  • Manage relationships with IT, Business, and Operations partners at all levels, within all organizations.
  • Operate within an economic framework when analyzing the impact of design decisions.
  • Work with customers, stakeholders, and suppliers to establish high-level solution intent, solution intent information models, and documentation requirements.
  • Participate in planning, definition, and high-level design of solutions and exploration of solution alternatives.
  • Review end-to-end design by delivery teams and provide guidance with accountability.
  • Provide reference implementations on new solutions, patterns, and technology products.
  • Ensure high-quality solutions with best security measures, cost, performance, and operational efficiency in mind.
  • Participate in solution demos, often demonstrating capabilities contributed to the overall solution.
  • Align technology approaches across Release Trains.
  • Foster communication and collaboration between Agile teams within the Release Train and all stakeholders.
Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field required.
  • Strong technical background with a core competency in software development and architecture desired.
  • Overall 10+ years of experience related to IT delivery or software development.
  • 5+ years of experience in technical/solution IT architecture.
  • AWS Certified Solution Architect preferred.
  • Broad knowledge of current technology trends and design patterns.
  • Proven experience in building strong partnerships with key stakeholders, including senior-level executive sponsors.
  • Experience in defining strategic roadmaps and establishing priorities, with experience in managing competing needs of multiple stakeholders.
  • Executive presence, communication skills.
  • Ability to influence leaders, drive change, and transformation while working across all levels of the organization.
  • Strong knowledge of Agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, utilizing CA Agile Central/Rally or a similar tool.
  • Hands-on experience with Agile techniques: User Stories, Features, Capabilities, and Epics development and refinement, Continuous Integration, Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) test automation framework, Continuous Deployments, Regression Testing, Pair Programming, Burn Down Metrics, Velocity, etc.
  • Executive presence, communication skills.
  • Hands-on experience with software development processes and procedures to understand team needs, including fundamentals of iterative and incremental development.
  • Solid conceptual understanding of technology components, DevOps tools, and practices.
Competencies
  • Key leadership skills, including honesty, integrity, inspiring others, commitment, passion, decision-making, empathy, delegation, and empowerment.
  • Listen and influence teams in problem identification/decision-making.
  • Create an environment of mutual influence.
  • Effective communication skills: written, verbal, presentation.
  • Coaching & Feedback.
  • Facilitation.
  • Ability to think critically to solve complex problems and guide the team to successful outcomes.
  • Ability to drive change through influencing.
  • Ability to collaborate to drive outcomes.
  • Business acumen.
  • Ability to think beyond day-to-day activities.
  • Process/Continuous Improvement.
Requirements

If you will be working from home occasionally or permanently, the internet connection must be obtained through a cable broadband or fiber optic internet service provider with speeds of at least 10Mbps download/5Mbps upload.

About Cigna

Cigna is a global health insurance company dedicated to improving the health and vitality of those we serve. Through our divisions Cigna Healthcare and Evernorth Health Services, we are committed to enhancing the lives of our clients, customers, and patients. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.

Cigna is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from diverse candidates. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels valued and respected.



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