HIH - Software Engineering Advisor

Hyderabad, India March 12, 2026 Full Time Workday

Software Engineering Advisor

Position Overview

In this role, you will provide hands-on software engineering and system architecture leadership Be on the cutting edge of the advancing industry practice of site reliability engineering with the opportunity to work with a team of passionate IT engineers. Our mission is to enhance the performance and availability of Data and Analytical technologies as we move forward and adopt the methodology of site reliability engineering (SRE) for our IT assets. SRE is a set of principles and practices that incorporates resiliency software engineering via automation. Take pride in creating and modifying applications to provide early warning awareness of potential problems, eliminate toil, facilitate the flow of critical data pipelines and measure real service level objectives (SLO) using service level indicators (SLI). Be a part of a team that drives a culture of continuous improvement, development, and integration of new ideas and initiatives. Enjoy the benefits of supporting systems that are efficient and improve customer satisfaction.  We are looking for candidates with application delivery experience and a desire to apply their development skills to improve the operational effectiveness of our IT systems. Be a part of Cigna's future by joining a versatile team focused on growth and ingenuity.

We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer with 11 years of experience to join the Data and Analytics Engineering (D&AE) operational effectiveness team.

Responsibilities

  • This is a development role that will be utilizing Python for automation opportunities to remove any manual effort. This role also has a product support component for new code the candidate has implemented as well as for existing code. 
  • Perform root cause failure analysis for production system and provide short/long term resolution.
  • Work with business partners to resolve defects identified in a timely manner.
  • Understand the requirements and use cases provided.
  • Enable the self-healing capabilities to reduce the human interference, user impact and to increase the availability.
  • Partner with other teams and stakeholders for any clarifications needed for the timely deliverables.
  • Experienced with agile methodology.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in the related field.
  • 11+ years of experience as a Developer and exposed to Distriburted Systems and Operational roles.
  • 11+ years SQL experiences.
  • 11+ years of relational database management systems preferably Universal Database (UDB).
  • 6+ years of Python programing
  • 8+ years of SAS programing
  • 6+ years of Linux/windows shell scripting
  • 6+ years mainframe experiences
  • Experience with data pipeline deployment pipeline technologies like Jenkins, or GitHub
  • Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) tools like GitHub, Jenkins etc.
  • Experiences in INFORMATICA/DataStage and Oracle is a big plus
  • Experience with MS Office suite & VBA along with good presentation skills.
  • Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Dynatrace or Splunk etc.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to details
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills
  • Experience with AWS services… IAM, EC2, S3, Cloud Watch, StepFunctions, Lambdas, MWAA, SQS, SNS, Glue, Athena etc.
  • AWS certification is preferred

 

Location & Hours of Work

< >Full-time position, working 40 hours per week. Expected overlap with US hours as appropriatePrimarily based in the Innovation Hub in Hyderabad, India in a hybrid working model (3 days WFO and 2 days WAH)Equal Opportunity Statement

Evernorth is an Equal Opportunity Employer actively encouraging and supporting organization-wide involvement of staff in diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts to educate, inform and advance both internal practices and external work with diverse client populations.

 

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.

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