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The Cigna Group IT Strategy Senior Advisor-Hybrid in Bloomfield, Connecticut
The IT Strategy Senior Advisor will support the head of the Digital Care business in delivering innovative digital healthcare technology solutions to our patients, members, and customers. They will courageously push the boundaries of our agile engineering culture. They will balance a wide range of initiatives and manage relationships with other technology leaders to deliver on our strategic priorities. They will partner with other leaders within the digital care organization to ensure the team is strategically positioned for success.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
· Helps drive the strategic planning for several of the largest initiatives in the Digital Engineering Organization
· Partners with core team members and ancillary organizations to successfully execute initiatives using Agile best practices and principles (where necessary) and identify key gaps, interdependencies, and risks
· Facilitates and supports workstream efforts to ensure scope and deliverables progress at necessary rates and align to key timelines and stakeholder commitments
· Effectively communicates across multiple facets of the organization, including senior Technology and Business leadership, stakeholders, and consumers
· Strategically influences positive outcomes in a dynamic environment, including driving prescriptive work efforts as well as pivoting initial approach and plan as needed
· Manages relationships with all impacted stakeholders, vendors, and contributors to drive consistent messaging and help establish our team as a premier and trusted partner within Digital Engineering
· Provides guidance and council to the organization in support of the overall technology strategy
· Remove impediments to achieving quality standards, project deadlines and business objectives
· Ensure holistic ownership and accountability for technology products and delivery
· Ensure technical product road maps are complete, consistent, and feasible
· Support teams in establishing organizational staffing strategy including budget planning, performance management and development of the team
· Apply knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization’s goals
Qualifications:
BS or BA degree in Business or comparable business experience.
7-10 years of work experience in application engineering
5 plus years development experience strongly preferred.
Strong understanding of parallel processing, concurrency, and asynchronous concepts
Strong experience with enterprise level N-tier web applications
Experience in writing native SQL queries.
Relational Database - experience using Oracle, MySQL/MariaDB, Postgres, or SQLServer
Jira/Jira Align experience preferred.
Strong problem solving and critical thinking skills.
Ability to learn and adapt quickly.
Excellent documentation and communication skills
Proven track record of following through and delivering on commitments.
Excellent planning, organizational, and time management skills Ability to implement new ideas and influence dynamic thinking.
High attention to detail
Excellent analytical skills and ability to consume large quantities of information.
Comfortable presenting to senior leaders and facilitating discussions in a dynamic environment.
Demonstrated experience in technology strategy and implementations.
Demonstrated ability to establish relationships and partner with other technology teams in achieving objectives.
Demonstrates experience in organizational management and thought leadershipExperience in writing native SQL queries
Experience with Application Monitoring Tools (Splunk, Cloudwatch, Dynatrace etc)
Strong experience with Continuous Integration/Deployments (Jenkins/Terraform/Git Lab Runners)
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.
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