Help us lead our future. Get ready for a job that encourages you to think strategically yet stay connected with your teams. Do you have problem-solving or technical pipeline experience? If so, prepare to innovate, create, and inspire. The Databricks Software Engineering Senior Advisor (Software Engineering Senior Advisor) demonstrates expertise in data engineering technologies with a focus on engineering, innovation, strategic influence, and product mindset. This individual will act as a key contributor to the team to design, build, test, and deliver large-scale software applications, systems, platforms, services, or technologies in the data engineering space. This individual will have the opportunity to work directly with partner IT and business teams, owning and driving major deliverables across all aspects of software delivery.

Responsibilities

• The candidate will be responsible for delivering business needs end to end, from requirements to development into production.

• This individual will deliver data engineering toolchains, platform capabilities, and reusable patterns through a hands-on engineering approach in the Databricks environment.

• The applicant will be responsible for following software engineering best practices with an automation-first approach and continuous learning and improvement mindset.

• The applicant will ensure adherence to enterprise architecture direction and architectural standards.

• The applicant should be able to collaborate in a high-performing team environment and have the ability to influence and be influenced by others.

Qualifications

• High School diploma; Bachelor’s degree preferred.

• More than 5 years of experience in software engineering, building data engineering pipelines, middleware, API development, and automation

• More than 3 years of experience in Databricks within an AWS environment

• Expertise in Agile software development principles and patterns

• Expertise in building streaming, batch and event-driven architectures and data pipelines

• Cloud-based security principles and protocols like OAuth2, JWT, data encryption, hashing data, secret management, etc.

• Expertise in Big data technologies such as Spark, Hadoop, Databricks, Snowflake, EMR, Glue

• Good understanding of Kafka, Kafka Streams, Spark Structured streaming, configuration-driven data transformation, and curation

• Expertise in building cloud-native microservices, containers, Kubernetes, and platform-as-a-service technologies such as OpenShift, CloudFoundry

• Experience in multi-cloud software-as-a-service products such as Databricks, Snowflake

• Experience in Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools such as terraform and AWS cloudformation

• Experience in messaging systems such as Apache ActiveMQ, WebSphere MQ, Apache Artemis, Kafka, AWS SNS

• Experience in API and microservices stacks such as Spring Boot, Quarkus,

• Expertise in Cloud technologies such as AWS Glue, Lambda, S3, Elastic Search, API Gateway, CloudFront

• Experience with one or more of the following programming and scripting languages – Python, Scala, JVM-based languages, or JavaScript, and ability to pick up new languages

• Experience in building CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Github Actions

• Strong expertise in source code management and its best practices

• Proficient in self-testing of applications, unit testing and use of mock frameworks, test-driven development (TDD)

• Knowledge of the Behavioral Driven Development (BDD) approach.

If you will be working at 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 The Cigna Group

Doing something meaningful starts with a simple decision, a commitment to changing lives. At The Cigna Group, we’re 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.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, age, disability, sex, childbirth (including pregnancy) or related medical conditions including but not limited to lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital or familial status, genetic information, status with regard to public assistance, citizenship status or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.

If you require reasonable accommodation in completing the online application process, please email: SeeYourself@cigna.com for support. Do not email SeeYourself@cigna.com for an update on your application or to provide your resume as you will not receive a response.

The Cigna Group has a tobacco-free policy and reserves the right not to hire tobacco/nicotine users in states where that is legally permissible. Candidates in such states who use tobacco/nicotine will not be considered for employment unless they enter a qualifying smoking cessation program prior to the start of their employment. These states include: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Washington State.