HIH Software Engineering Advisor
ABOUT EVERNORTH:
Evernorth℠ exists to elevate health for all, because we believe health is the starting point for human potential and progress. As champions for affordable, predictable and simple health care,
we solve the problems others don’t, won’t or can’t.
Our innovation hub in India will allow us to work with the right talent, expand our global footprint, improve our competitive stance, and better deliver on our promises to stakeholders. We are passionate about making healthcare better by delivering world-class solutions that make a real difference.
We are always looking upward. And that starts with finding the right talent to help us get there.
Software Engineering Advisor
Position Overview
The job profile for this position is Software Engineering Advisor, which is a Band 4 Contributor Career Track Role.
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Our people make all the difference in our success. We are looking for engineers to develop, optimize and fine-tune AI models for performance, scalability, and accuracy. In this role you will support the full software lifecycle of design, development, testing, and support for technical delivery. This role requires working with both onsite and offshore team members in properly defining testable scenarios based on requirements/acceptance criteria.
Responsibilities
- Act as a senior technical leader across multiple product teams, influencing architecture, design patterns, and engineering best practices.
- Establish and enforce coding standards, clean architecture principles, SOLID design practices, and modular development approaches.
- Lead architecture reviews, provide impact analysis for new initiatives, and guide long-term technical direction.
- Ensure maintainability and performance of existing legacy systems while planning structured technical debt reduction.
- Drive progressive modernization initiatives across legacy enterprise systems and modern cloud-native platforms.
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through structured code reviews and engineering Communities of Practice (Dev Tribes).
- Identify and evaluate pragmatic opportunities to leverage AI/ML and Generative AI within existing enterprise applications to improve automation, efficiency, and user experience.
- Architect and guide implementation of LLM-based solutions, including RAG pipelines, embeddings, vector databases, and orchestration frameworks such as LangChain or LangGraph.
- Ensure AI integrations are secure, scalable, observable, and compliant with healthcare data standards.
- Collaborate with product and business stakeholders to translate evolving requirements into scalable and maintainable technical solutions.
- Participate in agile development processes and promote modern engineering practices such as CI/CD, TDD, and DevSecOps.
- Represent engineering perspectives in cross-functional technical discussions and influence technical decisions across global teams.
Qualifications
Required Skills:
- Strong experience in C#, SOLID Design Principles/Patterns, OOP, Data Structures, ASP.NET Core, ASP.NET Web API, ReactJS, xUnit, TDD, Kafka, Microservices, Event-Driven Architecture, Azure (including Terraform and AKS), Cosmos DB.
- Hands-on experience working with legacy enterprise technologies such as Classic ASP, VB.NET, and traditional ASP.NET applications.
- Experience modernizing monolithic applications into modular or microservices-based architectures.
- Knowledge of Service Oriented Architecture, Event Driven Architecture, SonarQube, CheckMarx.
- Hands-on experience designing and integrating AI/ML or Generative AI solutions within enterprise applications.
- Strong understanding of LLM-based architectures including RAG, embeddings, vector stores, prompt engineering, and evaluation techniques.
- Understanding of security, governance, and compliance considerations in regulated domains.
- Experience with agile methodologies including SCRUM.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Required Experience & Education:
- Software engineer with 13–15 years of overall experience, including significant hands-on experience in architecture, modernization, and enterprise solution design.
- Engineering degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field of study
Location & Hours of Work
- Hybrid 3 days a week from office - Hyderabad
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.
