Software Engineering Advisor Evernorth

Cigna Group

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New York City, NY - USA

profile Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed
Posted on: Yesterday
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

The AI Center of Excellence Innovation team is seeking a Software Engineering Advisor to design build and scale reusable AI-enabled software solutions across Evernorth and the enterprise.

This role is suited for an early to midcareer engineer with strong full stack fundamentals and hands-on experience with modern AI technologies including generative AI and knowledge graphbased systems. The Software Engineering Advisor will partner with senior engineers architects data scientists and business stakeholders to deliver production-ready solutions while continuing to build technical and architectural depth.

Role Objective

Contribute to the delivery of high-quality reusable AI-first software that supports strategic initiatives across U.S. and global teams. This role focuses on application and service developmentnot traditional data engineering or reporting.

Technical Focus

  • Full stack development of AI-powered applications and services

  • LLM-based workflows tools and agents

  • Knowledge graph integration and semantic retrieval

  • Cloud-native development and containerization

  • Reusable components and reference implementations

Technology Stack

  • AWS

  • Docker and Podman

  • Python (FastAPI Pydantic Pydantic-AI LangChain)

  • Neo4j and graph technologies

  • Commercial and open-source LLMs

  • LangSmith and observability tooling

  • Git-based CI/CD pipelines

Expectations

  • Deliver maintainable well-structured code with senior guidance

  • Participate in sprint planning design reviews and code reviews

  • Contribute to architecture and implementation improvements

  • Balance experimentation with reliability and quality

Core Responsibilities

  • Design and build backend services and APIs for AI applications

  • Contribute to full stack features and service orchestration

  • Develop and integrate LLM-based workflows and agents

  • Support pilots and proofs of concept through production

  • Translate requirements into technical solutions

  • Support deployments triage issues and automate testing

Engineering Mindset

  • Apply best practices for quality reliability and reuse

  • Build cloud-ready well-architected applications

  • Take ownership of deliverables

  • Continuously improve code quality and developer experience

Collaboration

  • Communicate clearly with technical and non-technical partners

  • Actively participate in agile ceremonies

  • Raise questions and risks early

  • Collaborate across teams and experience levels

Required Qualifications

  • Early to midcareer software engineering experience

  • Strong Python and API development skills

  • Hands-on experience with generative AI or AI-enabled systems

  • Familiarity with knowledge graphs or graph modeling

  • Cloud-native development experience (AWS preferred)

  • Experience with containers (Docker or Podman)

  • Solid understanding of software engineering fundamentals

  • Git and agile development experience

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience in AI innovation or platform teams

  • Exposure to multiple LLM providers or evaluation frameworks

  • Observability and monitoring experience

  • Contributions to shared libraries or accelerators

  • Open-source interest or contributions

Personal Attributes

  • Growth-oriented and eager to learn in an AI-first environment

  • Comfortable with ambiguity

  • Focused on solving real business problems

  • Receptive to feedback and continuous improvement

  • Collaborative and accountable


If you will be working at home occasionally or permanently the internet connection must be obtained through a cable broadband or fiber optic internet service provider with speeds of at least 10Mbps download/5Mbps upload.

For this position we anticipate offering an annual salary of 111700 - 186100 USD / yearly depending on relevant factors including experience and geographic location.

This role is also anticipated to be eligible to participate in an annual bonus plan.

At The Cigna Group youll enjoy a comprehensive range of benefits with a focus on supporting your whole health. Starting on day one of your employment youll be offered several health-related benefits including medical vision dental and well-being and behavioral health programs. We also offer 401(k) company paid life insurance tuition reimbursement a minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year and paid holidays. For more details on our employee benefits programs click here.

About The Cigna Group

Doing something meaningful starts with a simple decision a commitment to changing lives. At The Cigna Group were dedicated to improving the health and vitality of those we serve. Through our divisions Cigna Healthcare and Evernorth Health Services we are committed to enhancing the lives of our clients customers and patients. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.

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.

If you require reasonable accommodation in completing the online application process please email: for support. Do not email for an update on your application or to provide your resume as you will not receive a response.

The Cigna Group has a tobacco-free policy and reserves the right not to hire tobacco/nicotine users in states where that is legally permissible. Candidates in such states who use tobacco/nicotine will not be considered for employment unless they enter a qualifying smoking cessation program prior to the start of their employment. These states include: Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Iowa Kansas Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Nebraska Ohio Pennsylvania Texas Utah Vermont and Washington State.

Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with all federal state and local ordinances.


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The AI Center of Excellence Innovation team is seeking a Software Engineering Advisor to design build and scale reusable AI-enabled software solutions across Evernorth and the enterprise.This role is suited for an early to midcareer engineer with strong full stack fundamentals and hands-on experienc...
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Cigna Healthcare offers health insurance plans such as medical and dental to individuals and employers, international health insurance, and Medicare coverage.

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