Data Management Strategy & Governance Associate Advisor

INTRODUCTION TO EVERNORTH: 

Evernorth Health Services India, established in Hyderabad in 2024, is an innovation hub for Evernorth Health Services, the pharmacy, care and benefits division of The Cigna Group. The innovation hub will support innovation-focused areas, such as generative AI, product development, process improvement, analytics, and software engineering across The Cigna Group and its businesses.  Evernorth Health Services India builds on The Cigna Group’s existing presence in India.

About Evernorth Health Services:

Evernorth Health Services (Evernorth) is the pharmacy, care and benefits solution division of The Cigna Group - a Fortune 16 global health company with 75,000 employees, 186 million customers in more than 30 countries and jurisdictions around the world. Evernorth exists to make the prediction, prevention, and treatment of illness and disease more accessible to millions of people. We do this by creating and connecting premier health services offerings, such as benefits management, pharmacy, care solutions, insights and intelligence.

About Cigna:

The Cigna Group is a global health company committed to improving the health and vitality of individuals and communities around the world and includes products and services marketed under its Cigna Healthcare and Evernorth Health Services subsidiaries. Cigna Healthcare is the health benefits provider of The Cigna Group, serving customers and clients through its U.S. Employer, U.S. Government, and International Health business. Evernorth Health Services is the pharmacy, care and benefits solution division of The Cigna Group

Data Management Strategy & Governance Associate Advisor - HIH - Evernorth

Job Description

• The Data Builder is the hands-on builder responsible for turning architectural design and business requirements intotrusted, reusable data products through MVP that are production grade.Reporting to the Director, Data Operations & Data Management, this role builds to the enterprise-agnostic Silver foundation designed by Data Architecture andco-designs and builds Gold data products where business logic, metrics, and functional knowledge live.

• This is a hands-on individual contributor role — thebuild authority that blendsbusiness fluency and data engineering discipline in equal measure, authoring Gold data products that answer the question the first time and building them to production standard.

• This role is a critical execution counterpart toData Architecture and Data Analysis, Products & Integration, building faithfully against their designs and requirements and compressing the path from new data to a production-grade, reusable asset. It is an exciting opportunity to join the team transforming how Cigna builds and reuses data — delivered through MVP.

Key Responsibilities

Rapid Build & Delivery

• Build architecture’s designs and analysis’s requirements intoproduction-ready solutions through MVP.

• Work new and unfamiliar data quickly into aworking solution that answers the business question at hand.

• Refactorlearning-stage and bespoke work into durable, reusable, production-ready assets.

Silver — Build to Architecture’s Design

• Build the physical Silver structures to theenterprise-agnostic Silver model and reference patterns designed by Data Architecture.

• Implement the design faithfully and promote it to production throughgoverned CI/CD pipelines.

• Capturebusiness context and metadata at build, and hand off to trusted partner teams as readiness allows.

Gold — Democratized, Delivered Through MVP

• Treat the Gold layer asdemocratized — Data Operations may own specific Gold assets and assists other teams in building theirs.

• Deliver Gold solutions throughbuild-through-MVP, promoted to production-grade through governed CI/CD pipelines regardless of owner.

• Uphold thebuild standards and guardrails any Gold solution must meet, so a federated Gold layer stays stable and production-grade across owning teams.

Engineering Discipline & Production Readiness

• Build toproduction standards from day one so the lift from MVP to production is simple, not a rebuild.

• Apply consistentdevelopment patterns, naming conventions, and build standards with specific focus on the connectivity across all data products to create a more connected data ecosystem.

• Move work through the CI/CD pipeline — develop, test, and productionize — clearingquality, security, and cost checks on first pass.

• ApplyAI and automation to accelerate build and testing without bypassing governance, security, or quality expectations.

Partnership & Collaboration

• Partner withData Architecture — building to their Silver design and co-designing Gold within the standards they set.

• Partner withData Analysis, Products & Integration — who bring the requirements, business rules, and acceptance criteria this role builds against.

• Partner withPlatform Engineering / IT and DevOps & AI Enablement — who own ingestion, pipelines, and the automation frameworks this role builds on.

• Partner withdata science and business analytics teams so Gold data products serve their models, analyses, and decisions.

• Partner withdata governance teams to ensure enterprise standards are consistently implemented

• Set the design and hold Data Operations standards acrossthe Hyderabad Data Operations team andoutside service partnersas part of a global delivery model.

What This Role Is Not

• Not a pure data engineering or platform role.

• Not the owner of the enterprise Silver model.

• Not the primary business-engagement or requirements role.

• Not the owner of the Gold layer, which is democratized across teams.

• Not a governance policy, stewardship, or BI reporting role.

• This role exists tobuild real data solutions that get used — designed for the business, engineered to last, delivered through MVP.

Required Experience & Capabilities

• 6+ years building production-grade data solutions, with demonstrated depth in analytics engineering or equivalent business-plus-build work.

• A genuine50/50 blend of business fluency and hands-on engineering discipline.

• Hands-on experience withDatabricks, Spark, Unity Catalog, SQL, and Python.

• Familiarity withSnowflake and Teradata in addition to a Databricks-first stack.

• Expert knowledge ofdimensional and medallion (Silver / Gold) modeling within an enterprise-agnostic data model.

• Working knowledge ofCI/CD pipelines, automated code evaluation, and controlled promotion to production.

• Strongsoftware-engineering discipline — version control (Git), code review, and efficient, reusable code.

• Performance-tuning and cost-optimizing Spark and SQL transformations at scale.

• Familiarity withdata governance and cataloging tooling such as Collibra.

• Automated data-quality testing and validation built into every solution.

• Demonstrated ability tolearn a new data domain fast and turn business logic into reusable data products.

• Demonstrated ability to applyAI and automation to accelerate build while preserving quality and governance.

• Experience incomplex, regulated enterprises preferred; healthcare or PBM data a plus.

• Design and implementautomated data observability and reliability reporting

• Experience working in regulated or compliance‑driven environments

Measures of Success

• New data reaches a trusted, production-grade asset in a short cycle time.

• Gold data products are delivered and reused across use cases, with democratized ownership held to a common build standard.

• Silver builds implement architecture’s design faithfully and are handed off without loss of quality.

• Solutions reach production through governed CI/CD pipelines, clearing quality, security, and cost gates on first pass.

• Build acceleration through AI and automation is achieved without compromising governance, quality, or security controls.

Work Hours:

·         2:30 PM IST to 11.30PM IST

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.