Epic Application Architect - St. Louis, United States - The Cigna Group

Description

The job profile for this position is Architecture Senior Advisor, which is a Band 4 Senior Contributor Career Track Role.

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Key Job Responsibilities

• Lead brainstorming sessions to develop potential solutions for business needs or problems.
• Identify opportunities for process improvements.
• Prepare and document testing requirements.
• Identify areas where IT can support business needs and goals.
• Work with business units to develop IT strategies and to improve current IT implementations.
• Work with product and delivery teams to develop scalable solutions and products.
• Communicate and consult with clients and internal stakeholders to develop appropriate solutions
• Design and build innovative tools and services in a large distributed environment and help lead changes across the company.
• Work in an agile environment to support delivery of high quality software

Qualifications

• Experience with EMR systems highly desired.
• Experience with Epic EMR preferred
• Experience with healthcare interoperability standards highly desired
• Azure/AWS Cloud skills highly desired
• Experience in using development languages such as Python, Java, Go, Shell, Javascript or other languages to build reusable tools
• Demonstrated breadth of technical proficiency in a particular engineering domain - "Considered an expert not only within Cigna, but also by peers in other companies"
• Able to lead and contribute expertise to activities associated with defining engineering requirements, determining technical feasibility, forecasting (time, cost, complexity), and best practices to avoid pitfalls and mistakes
• Can serve as a technical leader of one or multiple teams building enterprise-grade solutions using established engineering best practices
• Able to influence Principals and IT senior leaders on technical direction/decisions
• Recognized as an industry thought leader, has established relationships with individuals in other companies in similar roles.
• Able to conceptualize solution ideas
• Able to lead development of design patterns
• Able to play a tech lead role for major engineering initiatives
• Able to rationalize technical recommendation for directional decisions
• Recognized as an advocate for, and actively advocates for the broad IT technical community
• Able to influence IT SLT, and address IT SLT inquires
• Responsible for defining and enhancing the Cigna technical brand
• Responsible for advancing the Cigna Principal Program - mentoring Principals, and candidate Principals, organizing/participating at Principal events, recommending new Principals, and guiding the overall Principal program.
• Able to promote the Cigna technical brand by speaking or participating at external venues (conferences, campus recruiting, etc)
• Ability to speak in non-technical terms and explain technical concepts in crisp, clear, and plain terms
• Proven ability to design systems integration approaches, new software applications, interfaces, and services as well as enhancements to existing components comprising an overall IT solution. Broad, applied experience with common computing platforms, legacy and modern development tools and languages, database management systems, and enterprise application integration (middleware) technologies
• Results-oriented and diligent with a sense of urgency
• Assertive and self-directed
• Ability to navigate a highly-matrixed organization effectively.

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.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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