Overview

Cigna International Health is initiating a project to modernise its portal and self-service application to bolster the expansion of our health businesses across the globe. We’re actively seeking accomplished leaders to champion our vision and steer us towards building a mobile platform for serving Cigna’s customers all over the world.

We are seeking an experienced Software Engineer to drive our front-end software development efforts in creating high-quality web and mobile solutions. The ideal candidate will engineer technical solutions, produce clean code, and ensure successful delivery of software solutions aligned with business goals.

Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership:
  • Provide direction and be responsible for the output of frontend discipline within the application development.
  • Implement software engineering strategy, ensuring that it aligns with the overall business and product objectives.
  • Own the frontend application development capability for our web portal solution aligned with the product vision as defined by the solution product owner.
  • Contribute to the definition of applications development policies, standards, and procedures.
• Mentoring:
  • Lead and mentor junior software development team members, fostering a culture of innovation, automation, collaboration, and excellence.
  • Take active part in career development and performance of junior software development team members.
• Project Delivery:
  • Execute software projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, within budget, and meet quality standards.
  • Develop solutions using TDD methodology.
  • Execute project plans and application designs to ensure projects are aligned with standards and IT strategy.
• Architecture and Development: Guide the design principles, and development processes to ensure scalable, secure, and efficient solutions, collaborating with other senior leads.
• Operational Efficiency: Implement DevSecOps to streamline processes, tools, and workflows to optimize engineering operations and enhance productivity.

Requirements

• Experience: Proven experience (6 years) in a senior role within software development for web portals and user interfaces, with a strong technical background.

• Technical Acumen: Extensive knowledge of software development methodologies, source code management strategies, design patterns, DevOps, automation, and best practices. Ability to translate non-functional requirements such as availability, flexibility, stability, ease of maintenance and security.
• Technologies covered: Strong experience in implementing software using ReactJS framework, TypeScript, web servers, relational and non-relational databases, testing strategies.
• Experience with a cloud platform such as AWS and the services available in there to build and host the applications. Key services: S3, Lambda, CloudFront, API Gateway, DynamoDB / RDS, IAM, KMS. Experience with ECS/EKS, Docker and Kubernetes are an advantage.
• Experience with building Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or CloudFormation is an advantage.
• Experience with building and deploying application code and configured CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Bamboo CI.
• Experience with working in agile teams and understood the concepts of iterative delivery, fail-early & fail-fast, continued improvements.
• Leadership Skills: Good leadership, mentoring, and communication skills to guide and inspire junior technical team members.
• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Optional: Global and regulatory landscapes: Understanding and experience of working practices across multiple geographies. Experience with regional nuances such as tax rules, regulatory interfaces, multi-currency, multi-language etc is an advantage.
• Aware of the concrete effects of architectural decisions – specifically microservice architecture – at the code level, in collaboration with other team members.

Desirable

• Experience of using Jira

About The Cigna Group