Architecture Senior Manager

Digital Technology: GenAI Architecture Senior Manager

Evernorth exists to elevate health for all, because we believe health is the starting point for human potential and progress. As champions for affordable, predictable, and simple health care, we solve the problems others don't, won't or can't. We are passionate about making healthcare better by delivering world-class solutions that make a real difference. We are always looking upward. And that starts with finding the right talent to help us get there.

Responsibilities:

• 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.

Required Experience / Qualifications:

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.

Desired Skills:

Serverless and event-driven architecture leadership. Experience defining AI governance, evaluation frameworks, and lifecycle management. CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code leadership. Strategic mindset with strong influence without direct authority

If you will be working at home occasionally or permanently, the internet connection must be obtained through a cable broadband or fiber optic internet service provider with speeds of at least 10Mbps download/5Mbps upload. For this position, we anticipate offering an annual salary of 149,300 - 248,800 USD / yearly, depending on relevant factors, including experience and geographic location.

This role is also anticipated to be eligible to participate in an annual bonus plan.

At The Cigna Group, you'll enjoy a comprehensive range of benefits, with a focus on supporting your whole health. Starting on day one of your employment, you'll be offered several health-related benefits including medical, vision, dental, and well-being and behavioral health programs. We also offer 401(k), company paid life insurance, tuition reimbursement, a minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year and paid holidays. For more details on our employee benefits programs, click here.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, age, disability, sex, childbirth (including pregnancy) or related medical conditions including but not limited to lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital or familial status, genetic information, status with regard to public assistance, citizenship status or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.

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The Cigna Group has a tobacco-free policy and reserves the right not to hire tobacco/nicotine users in states where that is legally permissible. Candidates in such states who use tobacco/nicotine will not be considered for employment unless they enter a qualifying smoking cessation program prior to the start of their employment. These states include: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Washington State.

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