Application Development Senior Advisor - Evernorth Health Services

The job profile for this position is Application Development Senior Advisor, which is a Band 4 Senior Contributor Career Track Role.

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The Application Development Sr Specialist - Legal Technology Services will be responsible for the design, development, unit testing, and production support of software in support of custom client implementations and other Legal, Compliance, and Government Affairs applications.   The Application Development Sr Specialist may code new or modified programs, reuse existing code through the use of program development software alternatives and/or integrate purchased solutions.  The candidate will document, test, implement and provide on-going support for specific applications.

Responsibilities

• Provides comprehensive consultation to business unit and IT management and staff at the highest technical level on all phases of application delivery and processes for diverse development platforms, computing environments with an emphasis on hosted vendor packages, distributed systems, and client server implementation.

• Researches and evaluates alternative solutions and recommends the most efficient and cost effective application. Works closely with client and IT management and staff to identify application development solutions.

• Participate in the design, definition, planning, development, and implementation of and projects conforming to Cigna’s Software Development Best Practices.

• Conduct proof of concepts for innovative software tools, technologies, and application frameworks. Maintain deep levels of involvement in the implementation process.

• Responsible for Design and coding of customized/configurable Vendor Software/code.

• Provide systems analysis support for custom and vendor implementations to ensure third party development meets Cigna's framework and security standards.

• Responsible for release management activities associated with moving code into production

Competencies / Skills

• Strong analytical and problem solving skills

• SQL Server  (Oracle is a plus)

• Open Pages Cognos Report development is a plus

• Java, JavaScript, JSP, HTML all a plus but not required

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree and/or combined years of related work experience

• 6 or more years work experience in  IT

• In depth knowledge of software development life cycle

• Experience in vendor management and hosted solutions

• Knowledge of the Legal, Compliance and Government Affairs environment is a plus

• Knowledge of IBM Open Pages Cognos Reporting is desirable

• Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) experience is ideal

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.

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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