Software Engineering Director - eviCore - Remote

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 collaboration or people leader experience? If so, prepare to innovate, create, and inspire. As the Software Engineering Director, you will have the opportunity to work with and lead a talented group of software and quality engineers from a variety of software engineering backgrounds. You will be a critical interface point with eviCore technology services and third-party vendors and have the vital role of strategizing with the larger Evernorth/Cigna enterprise to promote high-quality relationships and working practices.

Responsibilities

• Interface with business stakeholders, engineers, and software developers, gather requirements, and deliver complete solutions
• Lead and manage local and remote teams (scientists with diverse skillsets)
• Understand, at a deep level, business and product strategies, goals, and objectives. Support in setting the Engineering roadmap to drive business goals
• Lead projects in a matrixed environment, with experience in being hyper-agile with the commitment to provide the best response to our customer's feedback
• Recruit, train, mentor, and motivate a premier engineering team
• Empower team members to innovate while providing technical expertise/targeted questions to make decisions that are best for the business.
• Manage or participate in various types of miscellaneous special projects as assigned.

Qualifications

• High School diploma; Bachelor's degree preferred.
• 4+ years experience in an engineering leadership role.
• 3+ years experience in an engineering managerial role.
• 8+ years experience with software development; experience with Java or C# preferred.
• 3+ years in a healthcare technology company.
• Knowledge of SQL.
• Experience with RESTful APIs.
• Experience with cloud computing environments, with Microsoft Azure, preferred.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Experience with CI/CD processes, containerization, and other emerging DevOps technologies preferred.
• Experience with event-driven architectures and technologies preferred.
• Experience with Electronic Health Record (EHR) software, e.g. Epic or Athena, preferred
• Familiarity with APIs and standards specific to the health care industry (FHIR, HL7, X12, etc.) preferred.
• General knowledge of the health care industry and the prior authorization process is preferred.
• Excellent organizational and communication skills.
• Strong design skills coupled with systematic vision/thinking. Experience architecting/designing enterprise-grade, cloud-based systems.
• Working knowledge of NLP, machine learning, analytics, data science, etc.
• Comfortable working and communicating with all levels of the organization, including senior executives and C-level business partners.
• Considerable experience designing, managing, and scaling technologies.
• Considerable experience managing systems in healthcare, with managerial experience related to security and privacy (HIPAA).
• Experience to voice a strong opinion and make business-oriented decisions. Keen ability to analyze tradeoffs to drive informed conclusions.

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.

For this position, we anticipate offering an annual salary of 153,500 - 255,800 USD / yearly, depending on relevant factors, including experience and geographic location.

This role is also anticipated to be eligible to participate in an annual bonus and long term incentive plan.

We want you to be healthy, balanced, and feel secure. That's why you'll enjoy a comprehensive range of benefits, with a focus on supporting your whole health. Starting on day one of your employment, you'll be offered several health-related benefits including medical, vision, dental, and well-being and behavioral health programs. We also offer 401(k) with company match, company paid life insurance, tuition reimbursement, a minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year and paid holidays. For more details on our employee benefits programs, visit Life at Cigna.

About Evernorth Health Services

Evernorth Health Services, a division of The Cigna Group, creates pharmacy, care and benefit solutions to improve health and increase vitality. We relentlessly innovate to make the prediction, prevention and treatment of illness and disease more accessible to millions of people. 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: [email protected] for support. Do not email [email protected] for an update on your application or to provide your resume as you will not receive a response.

Cigna 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.