Senior Architecture Manager

The Cigna Group

Architecture Senior Manager creating enterprise GenAI architecture for The Cigna Group. Leading technical decisions and promoting secure AI platforms across cloud environments.

Posted 5/29/2026full-timeAustin • Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $149,300 - $248,800 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud Platform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define the enterprise GenAI architecture strategy, including LLM selection, RAG patterns, vector stores, orchestration, and AI governance.
Architect secure, scalable, and highly available AI platforms across cloud environments.
Evaluate and select new LLMs, frameworks, tools, and vendors; drive PoCs and architectural decisions.
Prompt engineering design / analysis and evaluation
Establish reference architectures, design patterns, and best practices for GenAI adoption.
Partner with security, compliance, and data governance teams to ensure responsible AI implementation.
Guide senior engineers and teams on complex architectural challenges.
Provide technical leadership in executive and cross-organization forums.
Ensure alignment between business outcomes, technology strategy, and long-term platform evolution.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in Computer science, Engineering, or related field (Master’s preferred).
15–18+ years of experience in application architecture and platform engineering.
Deep expertise in AI/ML and Generative AI architectures at enterprise scale.
Strong understanding of LLMs, RAG pipelines, vector databases, and conversational AI platforms.
Extensive experience designing and deploying solutions on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Proven experience architecting distributed, highly available, and security-first systems.
Experience driving enterprise PoCs, pilots, and large-scale rollouts.
Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills.

Benefits

Comp & perks

medical
vision
dental
well-being and behavioral health programs
401(k)
company paid life insurance
tuition reimbursement
a minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year
paid holidays

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Hard Skills & Tools

GenAI architectureLLM selectionRAG patternsvector storesAI governanceprompt engineeringapplication architectureplatform engineeringAI/ML expertiseGenerative AI architectures

Soft Skills

technical leadershipstakeholder managementexecutive communicationguidance on architectural challengescollaboration with security teamscollaboration with compliance teamscollaboration with data governance teams

Certifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceBachelor’s degree in EngineeringMaster’s degree (preferred)