Software Engineering Advisor- Hybrid

Cigna-Evernorth Services Inc. seeks a Software Engineering Advisor for the Plano, TX location to resolve complex technical development issues and ensure that quality is maintained by following development patterns and standards.

Responsibilities:

• Prepare deployment and post-deployment plans to support the conversion and deployment of software solutions.

• Interact with architects, technical project managers, and developers to certify that solutions meet requirements and customer needs.

• Improve coding quality and reliability by implementing good standards and best practices.

• Participate in the collaborative concept definition, software design, and realization of software products to support the strategic technology needs of the organization.

• Work within a technical capacity across the Data and Analytics sectors, including core development on platform, data processing, and report generation.

• Deliver innovative solutions to complex problems and provide expert content on complex engineering assignments and projects.

• Develop rest web services using Java and Spring Boot to connect native mobile applications to backend systems.

• Coordinate with frontend and backend application teams to design solutions for the business requirements using Java and J2EE technologies and understand business needs driving products and capabilities of backend systems.

• Participate in Agile scrum meeting and retrospective meetings.

• Provide status updates to top management.

• Perform peer review of team members' user stories and approve the code changes to ensure that the best coding practices are maintained.

• Provide production support for clients, monitor application health, and provide solutions to production incidents.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field and 5 years of experience in any software development role.

• Will accept a Master's degree and 3 years of experience.

• Must have experience with: gathering requirements from business users and preparing RUD (Requirement Understanding Document);

• Performing impact analysis on the new business requirements to find out the systems that could potentially be affected by proposed change(s) and designing effective software solutions;

• Preparing and submitting high-level estimates and detailed level estimates for new requirements;

• Developing software solutions for system enhancements using Java and J2EE technologies;

• Performing unit testing and integration testing;

• Conducting peer review sessions with team members to review code;

• Performing application support and maintenance activities;

• Provide root cause analysis (RCA) and provide fix and deployment support for production issues;

• Spring; Struts; JavaScript; CSS; Servlets; JSP; Web services; Jenkins; GitHub; SonarQube; SQL; IBM DB2; IBM RAD for WebSphere; Eclipse; WinSCP; DbVisualizer; Putty; ServiceNow; Serena Dimensions; and Unix.

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