Summary Data Engineer will work on a team of truly talented individuals and be responsible for the design, build, unit and automation testing of Individual & Family Retail Health Insurance applications and its components that interface with complex enterprise systems and external vendor systems. Engineer will havesolid knowledge working with complex distributed applications and passion for technologies and solving data integration challenges. Individual will have zeal and drive to be up to speed with latest development in tech arena.
Engineer must be a highly motivated, well-rounded, team player and self-starter that works best in a collaborative, dynamic, agile environment. Excellent communication skills both written and oral are also essential as this position will interface with remote scrum teams, business owners, enterprise architects, security teams, infrastructure teams, and end users via email, phone, IM, desktop sharing, and wiki. Qualities
Analytical Skills: Candidate must have strong analytical skills and be able to recognize the needs of customers and create simple solutions that answer those needs.
Communication: Candidate must be able to clearly communicate their ideas to peers, stakeholders, and management.
Creativity: Creativity is needed to help invent new ways of approaching problems and developing innovative applications as well as bringing experience from other industries.
Customer-Service: If dealing directly with clients and customers, candidate would need good customer service skills and consultant mentality to answer questions and fix issues.
Attention to Detail: Applications have many parts and all must work together for the application to function.
Problem-Solving: As issues come up, candidate must be able to make decisions that move the project forward.
Teamwork: Candidate must work well with others as part of a distributed agile (SAFe) team of engineers, analysts, product owner, and scrum master.
Technical Skills: Candidate must be adept in computer languages and have strong technical aptitude. Must have a solid knowledge with common design patterns should seek out opportunities to implement design patterns.
Responsibilities
Leverage existing open source frameworks, third party components/libraries, and commercial software for tracking, managing and applying database schema changes across multiple environments including production.
Create Data model and efficient reports using BI tools.
Implement automation and repeatable processes to manage all database (DML/DDL) changes
Work closely with development teams to optimize application performance.
Work closely with production support and triage teams to identify data issues and perform appropriate data cleanup
Support and enhance existing Individual & Family Retail Health Insurance applications used by consumers as well as operations staff.
Skillset Engineer should be very familiar with advanced concepts and have relevant, hands-on experience in many of the following areas to be a successful contributor on the team:
Database Design and Analysis (relational, XML Schemas, transactional, warehouse, No SQL, DynamoDB)
Cloud and Big Data Technologies
ETL Principles and tools, preferably Informatica , Kafka, AWS Glue
Data Warehouse and Data Modeling (Star and Dimensional Modeling etc.)
Understanding of Normalization, Denormalization
BI and Reporting Tools such as Tableau or any similar tool.
PL/SQL, Oracle XML development, Oracle 11g and Oracle supplied toolsets
Deep knowledge On Oracle Database
Understand Principles of Data Concurrency and Consistency
Define clear performance goals and keep historical records of metrics
Change Management automation and process improvements (Liquibase)
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline strongly preferred, typically seven or more years of solid, diverse work experience in IT with a minimum of four years' experience application program development, or the equivalent in education and work experience. Ideal candidate will have relevant experience either as a consultant or working for a start-up company.
This position is not eligible to be performed in Colorado.
About Cigna
Cigna Corporation exists to improve lives. We are a global health service company dedicated to improving the health, well-being and peace of mind of those we serve. Together, with colleagues around the world, we aspire to transform health services, making them more affordable and accessible to millions. Through our unmatched expertise, bold action, fresh ideas and an unwavering commitment to patient-centered care, we are a force of health services innovation. When you work with us, or one of our subsidiaries, you'll enjoy meaningful career experiences that enrich people's lives. What difference will you make?
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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