The Associate Advisor role will report to the Mainframe IMS team is the technical authority for IMS within the enterprise. This role is responsible for the design, day‑to‑day stability, and long‑term health of IMS environments, including installation, configuration, maintenance, performance, and recovery. The position covers the full IMS stack, including DB/DC, TM, Connect, DBRC and RECON management) and the supporting subsystems required to run IMS reliably in a large production environment.
This position has direct responsibility for ensuring IMS platforms are available, resilient, and recoverable. That includes ownership of high‑availability and disaster recovery capabilities, performance tuning, capacity planning, and hands‑on involvement in complex incidents and outages. The Associate Advisor is expected to lead during problem situations, make sound technical decisions under pressure, and ensure issues are resolved correctly and permanently. The Associate Advisor works closely with application teams, infrastructure partners, and leadership to support existing workloads while driving practical modernization through automation, tooling improvements, and operational simplification. This position also serves as the primary IMS escalation point, provides technical direction and mentoring to other engineers, and advises leadership on platform risk, readiness, and future direction.
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.
Skills Required
- Experience with IMS and related subsystems
- Expertise in performance tuning and capacity planning
- Ability to handle incidents and outages under pressure
- Technical leadership and mentoring experience
Cigna Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Cigna and has not been reviewed or approved by Cigna.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Strong bonus outcomes are frequently highlighted, with annual bonuses described as really good alongside above-average salary levels. Stock or long-term incentive elements are also noted as part of the overall package in some roles.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off benefits are portrayed as a meaningful part of total rewards, including generous PTO and flexibility that can enhance the perceived value of compensation. Flexible work-from-home arrangements are repeatedly linked with satisfaction about the overall package.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as broad in design, with preventive care often covered at no charge in-network and options like virtual care and wellness incentives. A large provider network and strong digital tools are positioned as practical advantages when using benefits.
Cigna Insights
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