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About the Role

Serve as the technical leader for AI innovation within the AQUA organization, partnering directly with business leaders to identify high-impact opportunities, design scalable AI solutions, and establish engineering standards. This is a highly visible leadership role where strategic thinking, technical excellence, and stakeholder influence come together to transform complex business challenges into practical AI-powered solutions.

Responsibilities

Define the AI architecture, engineering standards, and reusable solution patterns.
Lead the design and implementation of complex, scalable, secure, reliable, and production-ready AI solutions.
Evaluate and apply effective technologies, including LLMs, RAG architectures, agentic systems, machine learning, and hybrid approaches.
Establish best practices for AI evaluation, observability, governance, risk management, and cost optimization.
Create reusable frameworks, documentation, and playbooks to improve delivery quality and speed.
Collaborate with business stakeholders to identify opportunities for measurable AI value.
Guide engagements from discovery and solution design through delivery and operational transition.
Translate complex business requirements into practical technical solutions with clear success criteria.
Provide executive-level updates on progress, risks, outcomes, and strategic recommendations.
Make informed decisions in ambiguous situations, balancing business priorities, technical feasibility, and long-term value.
Serve as the trusted technical advisor for senior leadership and key stakeholders.
Lead architectural reviews, strategy discussions, and cross-functional alignment efforts.
Mentor Principal and senior engineers, raising technical standards and fostering a culture of excellence.
Identify repeatable solutions for broader enterprise capabilities and platforms.
Strengthen collaboration across product, engineering, security, legal, compliance, and data science teams.

Requirements

12+ years of software engineering, AI/ML engineering, or related experience, including leadership of complex enterprise initiatives.
Deep expertise in AI engineering, including large language models, RAG architectures, agentic workflows, model evaluation, and production AI systems.
Strong proficiency in Python and experience with enterprise technologies such as SQL, Java, TypeScript, or Go.
Experience building, deploying, and operating AI/ML solutions in AWS, Azure, or GCP environments.
Proven success defining technical strategy and influencing outcomes across multiple teams and stakeholders.
Strong understanding of responsible AI principles, including privacy, security, governance, human oversight, and risk mitigation.
Exceptional communication skills with the ability to engage technical, business, and executive audiences.
Demonstrated ability to lead initiatives in highly matrixed, complex organizations.
Experience in healthcare, insurance, pharmacy, clinical, or care management environments.
Experience in forward-deployed engineering, solutions engineering, technical consulting, or customer-facing technology leadership roles.
Experience leading discovery workshops, design sprints, or product strategy engagements.
Familiarity with HIPAA, model risk management frameworks, and AI governance practices.
Experience with Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, Anthropic, or open-source AI platforms.
Experience building reusable AI platforms, developer enablement capabilities, or enterprise AI accelerators.

Skills

AI
Machine Learning
Large Language Models (LLMs)
RAG Architectures
Agentic Systems
Python
SQL
Java
TypeScript
Go
AWS
Azure
GCP
Responsible AI
HIPAA
Model Risk Management
AI Governance

Location

Remote

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Senior Principal
12+ years

Education Level

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.

Salary/Compensations

173,900 - 289,900 USD / yearly

Benefits

Annual bonus
Long term incentive plan
Medical
Vision
Dental
Well-being and behavioral health programs
401(k)
Company paid life insurance
Tuition reimbursement
18 days of paid time off per year
Paid holidays
Leaves of absence

About the Company

At The Cigna Group, we’re dedicated to improving the health and vitality of those we serve. Through our divisions Cigna Healthcare and Evernorth Health Services, we are committed to enhancing the lives of our clients, customers and patients. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.

Equal Opportunity

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.
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.
Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with all federal, state and local ordinances.