Enterprise Architecture Senior Principal – Data, APIs, and Integration Architecture

Position Overview:

TheEnterprise Architecture - Data Architecture Senior Principal is aBand 5 Senior Contributor responsible for defining and advancing theenterprise data and analytics architecture strategy, target states, and multi-year roadmaps across the organization. This role serves as arecognized architecture authority, setting thenorthstar vision for modern data platforms, analytics, and AI-enabled capabilities—translating business priorities intopragmatic, scalable, and future-ready architectures. Operating with high enterprise influence and no direct reports, this role requires strong executive presence, the ability to influence without authority, and a relentless focus on enablingdata-driven decision making, hyper-personalization, and AI-first innovation.Key Outcomes

• Enterprise Data & Analytics Vision: Define and publish abusiness-aligned data and analytics architecture strategy with a clear3–5 year roadmap covering data platforms, governance, analytics, AI/ML, and integration layers.
• Scalable & Reusable Data Foundations: Establishmodern, modular data architectures that reduce fragmentation, promote reuse, and enable enterprise-scale analytics and AI.
• Decision Velocity through Architecture Governance: Implementarchitecture principles, guardrails, and decision frameworksto improve speed, consistency, and quality of analytics and data platform decisions.
• AI-Ready & Insights-Driven Enterprise: Enableanalytics-ready data, semantic layers, and AI capabilities that accelerate insights, automation, and intelligent decisioning.
• Cross-Domain Alignment: Act as a unifying architecture leader acrossDigital, Data, AI, Security, and Business domains to ensure alignment on key investment and design decisions.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategy & Architecture Leadership

• Define and evolveenterprise data & analytics architecture strategy, capability maps, and target-state designs.
• Develop and maintainmulti-year roadmaps aligned to business outcomes, cost optimization, and innovation priorities.
• Establish adata-as-a-product and platform-based operating model.

Data Platform & Analytics Architecture

• Architectmodern data platforms (cloud-native databases, data lakehouse, streaming, real-time pipelines, semantic/ontology layers).
• Define patterns fordata ingestion, transformation, storage, access, and consumption.
• Enableself-service analytics, BI, and advanced analytics capabilities across the enterprise.
• Lead architecture forAI/ML platforms, feature stores, and model lifecycle integration.

Integration & API Architecture

• Define enterprise integration strategy spanning APIs, messaging, event streaming, data sharing, and intelligent orchestration.
• Establish architecture standards for API-led connectivity, event-driven architecture, service-mesh, and real-time integrations
• Define reusable integration patterns across digital channels, core platforms, data and AI platforms
• Lead architecture for enterprise interoperability including healthcare interoperability, FHIR ecosystem, and external data exchanges

Data Governance, Privacy & Compliance

• Embeddata governance, quality, lineage, metadata, and stewardship frameworks into architecture design.
• Ensure architectures supportregulatory, privacy, and security requirements by design.
• Establish patterns fortrusted, secure, and compliant data usage.

Innovation & Emerging Capabilities

• Drive innovation inAI/ML, GenAI, agentic analytics, and intelligent automation.
• Evaluate and guide adoption of emerging technologies (e.g., knowledge graphs, semantic models, real-time decisioning).
• Leadproof-of-concepts and pilot initiatives for next-generation analytics capabilities.

Governance & Decision Enablement

• Provide architecture leadership forhigh-impact data and analytics initiatives.
• Establishreference architectures, reusable patterns, and standards for enterprise adoption.
• Drive alignment across portfolios to reduce duplication and optimize investments.

Delivery Partnership & Enablement

• Partner with engineering, product, and data teams to ensure architectures areexecutable, scalable, and cost-efficient.
• Enable adoption ofmodern engineering practices (DataOps, MLOps, CI/CD for data).
• Support vendor/platform strategy (e.g., lakehouse, cloud, third-party integrations).

Talent & Community Leadership

• Serve as amentor and thought leader across the architecture and data community.
• Drive adoption ofbest practices, patterns, and architectural discipline.

QualificationsRequired Skills & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field.
• 12+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, data engineering, or analytics platforms.
• Proven success definingdata/analytics architecture strategies, target states, and roadmaps.
• Deep experience inlarge-scale, regulated enterprise environments (e.g., healthcare, financial services).
• Strong ability toinfluence senior stakeholders without direct authority.
• Expertise in:
• • Modern data platforms (Lakehouse, Data Mesh, Data Fabric)
  • Cloud ecosystems (Azure, AWS, GCP)
  • APIs, event-driven architecture, and streaming
  • Data governance, security, and privacy frameworks
  • AI/ML and advanced analytics platforms

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

If you need a reasonable accommodation to complete the online application process, please emailseeyourself@thecignagroup.com for assistance.  Please note that this email inbox is dedicated to accommodation requests only and cannot provide application updates or accept resumes.

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 mannerconsistent with all federal, state and local ordinances.