Application Development Analyst - HIH - Evernorth

About Evernorth:
Evernorth Health Services, a division of The Cigna Group (NYSE: CI), creates pharmacy, care, and benefits 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. Application Development Analyst Position Overview: The Application Development Lead Analyst will be involved in software development across multiple teams while utilizing appropriate design methodologies. Designs, codes, tests, debugs, and documents those programs highly complex problems. Possesses knowledge of activities, tasks, practices and deliverables for assessing and documenting business opportunities and the benefits, risks, and success factors of potential applications. Works with senior engineers to convert business requirements and logical models into technical application design using application design activities, tools and techniques. Supports and provides direction to more junior professionals. Works autonomously, sometimes requiring more senior level technical support from others. Exercises judgment in the evaluation, selection, and adaptation of both standard and complex techniques and procedures. Utilizes in-depth professional knowledge and acumen to develop models and procedures, and monitor trends, within Application Development. Responsibilities:

• This position requires a technical, hands-on, motivated and collaborative individual with strong communication skills, proven experience working with diverse teams of technical architects, business users and IT areas on all phases of the software development life cycle.
• Works within an agile team to develop, test, and maintain business applications built on Java , JSP and React JS technologies
• Reads user stories and develops solutions to design problems
• Provide production support and help with production technical checkouts.
• Prepares necessary reports, manuals and other documentation as needed
• Designs, develops, and unit tests applications in accordance with established standards
• Conducts peer-reviews of solution designs and related code and configurations
• Supports packaging and deployment of releases
• Develops, refines, and tunes integrations between applications
• Analyses and resolves technical and application problems
• Adheres to high-quality development principles while delivering solutions on-time and on-budget
• Provides second-level support to business users
• Monitors the performance of internal systems
• Attends all scrum meetings and design sessions

Qualifications:

• Required Experience / Qualifications:
• Comprehensive knowledge and experience at expert level of various coding languages including but not limited to Java, J2EE , JSP , springboot, React JS and APIs
• Knowledge of IBM WebSphere is highly recommended
• Hands on experience with PLSQL and knowledge of SQL in general
• Familiar with Oracle
• Detailed knowledge on using monitoring tools and performance tools is required
• Must have experience in Build tools and CI/CD
• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming concepts
• Solid understanding of relational database design and querying concepts
• Detail-oriented and goal-oriented
• Proficient in Microsoft Office
• Able to adapt to a fast-paced work environment
• Able to work independently and as part of a team
• Familiarity with version control concepts
• Ideally, exposure to Cloud technologies
• Knowledge of agile development methodologies
• Knowledge of unit testing
• Able to be proactive and learn quickly
• Full-stack engineering mindset with a passion for excelling in all areas of the software development life cycle
• Desired Experience / Qualifications:
• University degree in Computer Science or a related discipline strongly preferred
• Minimum 1 to 3 years of work experience in software or web Front end and Backend service development

Location & Hours of Work:

• Full-time position, working 40 hours per week. Expected overlap with US hours as appropriate
• Primarily based in the Innovation Hub in Hyderabad, India in a hybrid working model (3 days WFO and 2 days WAH)

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