Software Engineering Senior Analyst
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.
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Our people make all the difference in our success. We are looking for engineer 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.
Position Overview
Develop and support software that collects, transforms, and sends medical determination data to clients’ medical claims systems. Most work centers on MS SQL Server—, T-SQL, data quality, and troubleshooting—in support of integrations and operational reliability. Hands-on .NET is required to support services and UIs and grow into fuller application delivery over time, including alignment or partnership with teams that own broader apps and APIs.
You will collaborate with senior engineers and architects on design, own well-scoped features, and contribute to quality, maintainability, and team practices while learning the domain.
Responsibilities
Technical
- 5 years professional software development experience (or equivalent depth); solid record shipping work in Agile/iterative delivery.
- Strong hands-on MS SQL Server (4+ years practical use): T-SQL for features, integrations, and operational support; reading execution plans, indexing fundamentals, and improving slow or complex queries (with support on advanced tuning).
- Schema design awareness: tables, keys, constraints, and tradeoffs with reporting or downstream consumers; ability to align database design with Entity Framework models and migrations where the stack uses them.
- Experience debugging data issues: tracing inconsistencies, reconciliation, and connecting application errors to the database; familiarity with team patterns for stored procedures, views, and/or functions as applicable.
- 4+ years hands-on .NET (.NET Framework and/or .NET as defined by the team); C# (VB.NET if the codebase requires it; otherwise, nice-to-have).
- ASP.NET Web API / REST and ASP.NET MVC with Razor and/or comparable server-side UI patterns in use.
- Entity Framework: modeling, migrations, LINQ; room to deepen performance work over time.
- Web applications plus APIs; exposure to microservices or distributed systems (hands-on or supported).
Cloud, platform & operations
- Azure fundamentals: deploy/debug apps, configuration, basic monitoring.
- Familiarity with Application Insights (or similar APM/logging), including correlating issues with database behavior when helpful.
- Exposure to CI/CD (e.g. Azure DevOps) and Jira (or similar) for delivery tracking.
- Preferred: Kafka/pub-sub, CAI- with Terraform, Service Fabric.
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 Terraforms and AKS), Cosmos DB
Knowledge of Service Oriented Architecture, SonarQube, CheckMarx
Ability to speak/write fluently in English
Experience with agile methodology including SCRUM.
Experience with modern delivery practices such as continuous integration, behavior/test driven development, and specification by example.
Required Experience & Education:
Software engineer (with 3-5 years of overall experience) with at-least 3 years in the key skills listed above
Bachelor’s degree equivalent in Information Technology, Business Information Systems, Technology Management, or related field of study.
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.
Skills Required
- 5 years professional software development experience (or equivalent depth)
- 3-5 years overall experience with at-least 3 years in the key skills listed
- Strong hands-on MS SQL Server (4+ years practical use) and T-SQL; query tuning and execution plans
- 4+ years hands-on .NET (Framework and/or .NET) and C#
- VB.NET (if codebase requires it)
- ASP.NET Web API / REST and ASP.NET MVC with Razor
- Entity Framework: modeling, migrations, LINQ
- Experience debugging data issues, schema design awareness, stored procedures/views/functions
- Experience with ReactJS
- xUnit, Test-Driven Development (TDD), and modern delivery practices
- SOLID design principles, OOP, and data structures
- Microservices and Event-Driven Architecture experience
- Kafka (pub-sub) experience
- Azure fundamentals including deployment, debugging, monitoring (Application Insights) and AKS
- Terraform experience
- Cosmos DB
- Familiarity with CI/CD (e.g., Azure DevOps) and Jira
- Knowledge of Service Oriented Architecture, SonarQube, CheckMarx
- Fluent spoken and written English
- Experience with agile methodology including SCRUM
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Business Information Systems, Technology Management, or related field
- Service Fabric
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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