Software Engineering Advisor

The Cigna Group

Software Engineering Advisor responsible for project enablement and process optimization using Pega. Collaborating with stakeholders to enhance user experience and improve system performance in a hybrid work environment.

Posted 5/12/2026full-timePlano • Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

SOAP

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Responsible for Project Enablement & Process Optimization, including gap analyses to identify opportunities for process reengineering, enhancing user experience, and improving system performance.
Develop application profiles, enterprise class structures, organizational layers, user access controls, and routing logic strategies.
Technical Governance & Risk Mitigation responsibilities include establishing and maintaining reusable technical assets and enforcing coding standards to align with functional and technical requirements.
Perform detailed risk assessments to support smooth change control and implementation processes.
Ensure effective communication of release changes to all stakeholders.
Lead requirement grooming sessions with business users and stakeholders.
Conduct technical feasibility studies to validate proposed solutions.
Prepare comprehensive design documents for Pega workflows, system integrations, interface specifications, exception handling, and failover/retry strategies.
Manage sprint planning activities including user story sizing, velocity estimation, backlog grooming, and task assignment.
Execute user story development, unit testing, defect resolution, and deployment activities.
Provide support for QA, UAT, release planning, production deployment, and post-go-live operation.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in Computer and Information Science or related field
5 years of experience in any Pega system architecture role with healthcare prior authorization
Creating responsive and intuitive user interfaces using Pega’s design system
Building and customizing UI components like sections, harnesses, and layouts
Applying consistent styling using skin rules and CSS overrides
Ensuring compliance with accessibility standards and supporting multi-language interfaces
Designing and implementing case types, stages, and processes
Process modeling, including building workflows using flow rules, subprocesses, and decision points
Implementing decision tables, decision trees, and declarative rules
Data transforms, including managing data manipulation and orchestration logic
Integrating with external systems using REST, SOAP, MQ, JMS, and other protocols
Configuring data pages for data retrieval and mapping external data sources
Implementing OAuth, SAML, and basic authentication for secure integrations
Data modeling, including designing class structures, data types, and relationships
Database configuration, including managing database tables, views, and optimizing queries
Creating reports, dashboards, and leveraging Pega’s reporting capabilities
Managing parallel development using branches
Automating CI/CD pipelines for Pega applications
Understanding rule resolution hierarchy and managing rule versions
Using Pega unit testing, tracer, clipboard, and live UI tools
Enterprise class structure, including designing scalable and reusable class structures
Application and access control, including configuring application rules, access groups, roles, and privileges
Creating and managing reusable assets like rulesets, components, and frameworks
Analyzing and improving application performance using PAL, DB trace, and AES
Agile methodologies, including sprint planning, backlog grooming, user story creation, and velocity tracking
Collaborating with stakeholders to define and refine requirements
Preparing design documents, release notes, and stakeholder updates
Pega System Architect certification required

Benefits

Comp & perks

Hybrid work schedule

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Hard Skills & Tools

Pega system architectureuser interface designCSSprocess modelingRESTSOAPOAuthSAMLdatabase configurationCI/CD pipelines

Soft Skills

communicationleadershipcollaborationrequirement groomingrisk assessmentstakeholder engagementproblem-solvingprocess optimizationtechnical governanceuser experience enhancement

Certifications

Pega System Architect certification