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Application Development Senior Advisor
Location: Remote
Interview: Virtual, 1-2 rounds
Possible assessment required prior to client submission. Make sure that candidates are serious about taking a technical assessment for this role.
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Duties:
Provides counsel and advice to top management on significant Application Development matters, often requiring coordination between organizations.
Acts as the principal designer for complex major systems and their subsystems utilizing a thorough understanding of available technology, tools and existing designs.
Provides comprehensive consultation to business unit and IT management and staff at the highest technical level on all phases of application programming and processes for diverse development platforms, computing environments (e.g., host based, distributed systems, client server, software, hardware, technologies and tools, etc.).
Works closely with client and IT management and staff to identify application development solutions, new or modified programs, reuse of existing code through the use of program development software alternatives, or integration of purchased solutions or a combination of the available alternatives.
Researches and evaluates alternative solutions and recommends the most efficient and cost effective application programming solution. May code new or modified programs, reuse existing code through the use of program development software alternatives and/or integrates purchased solutions.
Documents, tests, implements and provides on-going support for the applications.
Focuses on providing thought leadership and technical expertise across multiple disciplines. Recognized internally as "the go-to person" for the most complex Application Development assignments.
Required Skills:
Application Development
System Design
Application Programming
Diverse Development Platforms
Host-Based Computing
Additional Skills:
Distributed Systems
Solution Integration
Application Testing
Application Implementation
Application Support
Technical Expertise
Thought Leadership
Client-Server Computing
Software Technologies
Hardware Technologies
Program Development Software
Documentation
SUGGESTED:
For Application Development Senior Advisor (remote, Cigna Insurance Company – IT ), the description points to a principal designer / senior app-dev advisor who can span host-based + distributed + client/server environments and do solution integration, testing, implementation, and support . In a healthcare payer context, that usually translates to working across a fairly standard set of enterprise systems/apps.
- Core payer / "systems of record" (what they integrate with)
Area
Systems/apps you commonly see
How this role touches it
Claims & benefits admin
FACETS , QNXT , HealthRules Payor (HRP) , Amisys (legacy)
Integrations, data flows, services/APIs, batch jobs, modernization around core transactions
Provider data
Provider directory / credentialing platforms (varies), master data tooling
Ensuring provider data is consistent across portals, claims, contracting, directory publishing
Care management / UM
Care management platforms (varies by payer)
Integration with member apps, clinical workflows, authorizations, case notes
- Integration & API layer (typical day-to-day tooling)
API management : Apigee / MuleSoft / Kong / Azure API Management (depends on client stack)
Enterprise integration : IBM Integration Bus / ACE, TIBCO, Mule, Kafka-based eventing
Messaging : Kafka, IBM MQ, RabbitMQ (common for decoupling legacy host + distributed)
- Data & reporting ecosystem (payer data is huge)
ETL / orchestration : Informatica, SSIS, Talend, Airflow
Warehousing / analytics : Snowflake / Teradata / SQL Server / Oracle; plus BI like Power BI/Tableau
Identity / member matching : MDM-style tooling (product varies) because "member identity" is a constant problem in payer land
- Healthcare-specific data exchange standards (often enforced via specific engines)
EDI transactions (payer bread-and-butter): X12 270/271, 276/277, 278, 834, 835, 837
EDI translators/gateways : IBM Sterling, Cleo, Edifecs, etc.
FHIR/clinical interoperability (increasingly common): FHIR servers/gateways and related tooling (vendor varies)
- "Host-based computing" (explicitly called out in this job)
Because the req explicitly mentions host-based , candidates often work with:
Mainframe environments (z/OS concepts), COBOL/JCL , CICS/IMS , DB2
Batch scheduling tools (CA-7 / Control‑M, etc.)
File-based integrations (VSAM / flat files / SFTP) that still underpin many payer feeds
- DevOps / SDLC + quality & release (almost guaranteed)
Source control / CI/CD : GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket + Jenkins/Azure DevOps
Artifact mgmt : Nexus/Artifactory
Observability : Splunk, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, ELK
Testing : Postman/SOAP UI, automated test frameworks, performance tools (JMeter, etc.)
Work management : Jira/Confluence (or Azure Boards)
- Security/compliance tools (payer reality)
SSO/IAM (Okta/Ping/ADFS/Azure AD)
Secrets management (HashiCorp Vault / cloud equivalents)
Vulnerability scanning / SAST/DAST tooling (varies), because HIPAA + internal controls drive a lot of gates
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