Job Description 

As an App Dev Manager, you will lead your team to design, architect and deliver large-scale global software applications, systems, platforms, services or technologies. As a key leader in the organization you will have the opportunity to work directly with partner IT and business teams, owning and driving major deliverables across all aspects of software delivery.

The ideal team member will be creative, responsive, flexible, and willing to participate in an open collaborative peer environment.  The candidate will work on a team of high performers and does not shy away from opportunities to provide and take feedback to and from team members. The candidate works towards delivering a product and follows Software Engineering practices as defined by Evernorth Standards. 

Responsibilities

• Build a best-in-class engineering team that delivers excellent results through rapid iterations.
• Work with product management and cross functional teams to provide technical solutions for desired user experiences.
• Provide hands on technical leadership to the team, including your own code contributions.
• Define detailed technical requirements from high level product descriptions and enable your team to do the same.
• Drive and facilitate innovation within the team.
• Monitor, drive and facilitate individual growth of your teams’ individual contributors.
• Build, manage, and develop world-class engineers including hiring recommendations and guide and mentor engineers.
• Ensure high quality design reviews which meet business and architectural goals and drive critical feedback on architecture and design issues.
• Participate in strategic planning to achieve technical and business alignment with team, leadership chain, and with customers.
• Drives solution end-to-end, inclusive of partner delivery organizations. Coordinates design impacts appropriately with enterprise architecture and solution design peer groups.

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on technical expertise in cloud based distributed software design and development.
• Experience designing software architectures for scalability, reliability and performance.
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Experience with back-end distributed systems.
• A passion for people management and mentorship.
• Experience with the SCRUM methodology for agile software development.
• Prior experience as a software developer or software development manager.
• 9+ years of software development experience including design patterns, data structures, test driven development utilizing Scala, Python, or full stack JavaScript.

Success in this role is measured by

• Delivery stakeholders have early/often participation in solution design, with transparency to solution objectives.
• Implementation work shows evidence of reuse for broader needs, and shows balance of anticipating future needs.
• Development team members feel they are part of the solution ideation and elaboration on approach.
• Healthy backlog of non-functional and technical features is maintained and managed.

This role is WAH/Flex which allows most work to be performed at home. Employees must be fully vaccinated if they choose to come onsite.

This position is not eligible to be performed in Colorado.

About Evernorth

Evernorth, Cigna Corporation’s health services segment, exists to elevate health for all. We're building on our legacy and redefining health care as we know it. Unbiased in how we think, we create without limitation. We partner without constraints, deliver value differently and act in the interest of humanity. Solving across silos, closing gaps in care, and empowering clients, customers, and people everywhere to move onward and upward. When you work with us, you’ll be empowered to solve the problems others don’t, won’t or can’t. Join us. 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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