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# Software Engineering Senior Advisor- Hybrid

- **Company:** Cigna
- **Location:** Morris Plains, NJ, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $166,754.0 - $217,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Software Applications, JIRA, Business Software, Customer Information Control System (CICS), COBOL (Programming Language), Continuous Integration, Data Mart, Data Warehousing, IBM DB2, Database Queries, File Systems, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), Job Control Language (JCL), IBM Mainframe, IBM Rational Software, Rexx (Programming Language), Information Management, Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF), Python (Programming Language), Mainframes, Scrum Methodology, Regression Testing, Release Management, Software Engineering, Web Services, Apache Spark, Information Technology, Software Coding, Restful APIs, Microservices
- **Published:** August 21, 2026
- **Apply:** https://cigna.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/cignacareers/job/Morris-Plains-NJ/Software-Engineering-Senior-Advisor--Hybrid_26010431

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems or related field and 5 years of experience.

 * Requires experience with: Working in/with clients in the healthcare or pharmacy benefit management industry;

 * Performing cross functional system level design; Designing architecture and migrating the legacy Mainframe Enrollment and Eligibility file processing applications into AWS, Python, and Spark based framework for Modernization;

 * Tracking and guiding continuous improvement of digital maturity for discovery, delivery, and engineering practices; Using Jira for project management to track all phases of software development;

 * Conducting causal analysis to identify root causes; Completing project lifecycle including project planning, scope/ schedule/ resource/finance/stakeholder management, and cross functional team management;

 * Planning project approach, KPIs, and metrics for Project Tracking, Reporting, and Managing Financials; Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, Daily Scrum, Show and Tell, and Retrospection

## Description

* Provide expert content and professional leadership on complex engineering assignments and projects.

 * Design, develop and implement methods, processes, tools and analyses to sift through large amounts of data stored in a data warehouse or data mart to find relationships and patterns.

 * Deliver end-to-end business software needs from concept to deployment.

 * Participate in the delivery of the definitive enterprise information environment that enables strategic decision making capabilities across enterprise via analytics and reporting.

 * Conceive, plan, and deliver initiatives.

 * Provide thought leadership within Information Management while also working on broader projects that require understanding of wider business practices.

 * Drive the adoption of CI/CD tools and support the improvement of tool sets/processes., * Using IBM Mainframe and Electronic Data Interchange technologies to design system architecture, guide and review technical delivery by internal teams, and resolve architecture issues;

 * Writing and modifying complex software application programs; Developing and supporting the parallel execution flow while the migration is in progress and until successful launch of the migration;

 * Building Regression test frameworks, automating legacy manual processes in QA testing, and developing productivity/ Automation tools based on Rexx, ISPF, and Hiperstation;

 * Building new CICS regions from scratch; Working with CICS, DBA, and Mainframe infrastructure teams to perform sanity tests; Automating existing manual tasks using REXX, ISPF, and CA 7;

 * Reviewing and monitoring all phases of software engineering including requirements analysis, design, code development, and testing and implementation; and

 * Using: Cobol, JCL, DB2, Web Services, IBM Rational Developer for z systems, Electronic Data Interchange, Mercator, WTX8.2, and Abinito, Restful Microservices, REST APIs, library calls, and database queries.


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