Data Ops - Data Builder

The job profile for this position isData Management Strategy & Governance Advisor.

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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 Senior 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.

• 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

• 3+ 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.

Measures of Success

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

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

At The Cigna Group, you’ll enjoy a comprehensive range of benefits, with a focus on supporting your whole health. Starting on day one of your employment, you’ll 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, paid holidays, and leaves of absence. 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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