Software Engineering Lead Analyst (EDI/Edifecs)
Position Overview:

Software Engineer supporting Cigna's development and deployment of EDI/Edifecs Gateway Applications.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement the Healthcare EDI Gateway solutions for provider experience group on various initiatives.

• Provide support to our end-users by resolving their issues, responding to queries, and helping them analyse/interpret the results from the models.

• Develop, code, and unit test EDI/Edifecs product solutions and infrastructure code

• HIPAA X12 transactions standards and processing

• Edifecs XEngine, XEServer, SpecBuilder, TM and EAM

• Configuring XEServer Routes and Route Components including but not limited to:

• File System, Data Storage and GBD Endpoints

• XE Native, Translator and XData

• Router, Aggregation, XML Splitter and XML Batcher

• Groovy and Velocity

• XML and related technologies such as XSL, XPath and JSON

• WebSphere MQ application programming concepts

• Oracle DBMS (and developer utilities such as SQL Developer or Toad)

• Windows Server and Linux OS

• Participate in peer code reviews.

• Develop reusable infrastructure code for commonly occurring work across multiple processes and services.

• Participate in planning and technical design discussions with other developers, managers, and architects to meet application requirements and performance goals.

• Manage the Pipeline using JENKINS to move the application to higher environments such as System Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Release Testing, and Users Training environments.

• Contribute to production support to resolve application production issues.

• Follow the guidelines and team standards for production deployment and maintenance activities for all EDI Gateway applications.

• Manage the application demos to business users and Product Owners regularly in Sprint and PI demos.

• Work with Business users and Product Owners to understand business requirements.

• Participate in Program Increment (PI) planning and user stories grooming with Scrum masters, developers, QA Analysts, and product owners.

• Participate in daily stand-up meetings to provide daily work status updates to the Scrum master and product owner, following Agile Methodology.

Required Skills:

• Strong oral and written communication skills.

• Strong teamwork and collaboration skills.

• Excellent debugging, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

Required Experience & Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent relevant work experience and technical knowledge.

• 5-8 years in total related experience.

• At least 3 plus years of recent experience designing, developing, deploying, and supporting computing applications in a large-scale, distributed environment as a Software Developer.

• Experience in CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Conduit, GitHub

• Exposure to Architectural Patterns, Development Best Practices

• Experience in Unit Testing automation, Test Driven Development and use of mocking frameworks.

• Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams.

• Ability to perform detailed analysis of business problems and technical environments.

• Ability to think strategically and implement iteratively.

• Proven track record of success in challenging the status quo, implementing new ideas and designs with a practical orientation.

Desired Experience:

• Healthcare Industry experience.

• Coaching of team members.

Preferred:

Knowledge of healthcare regulations such as HIPAA, ACA, and other compliance frameworks.

Experience with managed file transfer (MFT) systems and secure data exchange protocols.

Familiarity with modern software development practices, including Agile methodologies.

The role of an EDIFECS Support Engineer is highly client-focused and requires both technical expertise and excellent communication skills to manage client relationships and resolve issues effectively.

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.

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