Engineering Management Director Cigna Healthcare

At Allegiance our engineers make a meaningful impact by building and modernizing platforms that support our clients and their members. As a Software Engineering Director you will play a critical role in shaping the future of our core application platformsbalancing operational excellence today with thoughtful modernization for tomorrow. This is an opportunity to lead with influence build strong engineering leaders and drive outcomes that matter across the business.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end engineering delivery and operational outcomes across Allegiances core application platforms ensuring stability performance and scalability.

• Define and execute a clear technology roadmap that addresses near-term operational needs while advancing long-term modernization of the VBA client platform and related systems.

• Lead and develop engineering managers and senior engineers strengthening accountability talent growth and engineering excellence.

• Establish consistent engineering standards delivery practices and governance aligned with enterprise guardrails.

• Partner with business product and technology leaders to align engineering outcomes with Allegiance and enterprise priorities.

• Identify assess and manage technical risk including legacy platforms and modernization initiatives.

• Drive continuous improvement in delivery discipline system reliability and development practices across teams.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of 15 years of experience in software engineering application development systems design or IT engineering.

• Extensive experience leading large-scale business-critical application platforms in an enterprise environment.

• Proven ability to define technology strategy and lead execution across multiple teams and stakeholders.

• Demonstrated people leadership experience managing engineering leaders and cross-functional delivery teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Technology Engineering or a related field.

• Experience modernizing legacy platforms and implementing scalable future-state technology solutions.

Since 1981 Allegiance by Cigna Healthcare has specialized in the administration of medical benefits offering core services such as claims processing customer service utilization management and case management. Backed by a unique high-touch approach to both member and client service Allegiance supports and administers some of the nations most innovative approaches to Health Plan benefits.

This role is also anticipated to be eligible to participate in an annual bonus and long term incentive 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

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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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.

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