Summary:The Business Architect Sr Advisor will support the alignment of Business and Technology to create a strategic architectural roadmap for Cigna Pharmacy and Core Solution initiatives.Role:The Business Architecture Sr Advisor supports the Business Architecture practice for Core Solutions and Cigna Pharmacy. This includes driving strategic engagements with business and technology leaders, partnering with business process, product and solution teams, and supporting in the use of business architecture best in class frameworks and guidance. This role will maintain strong connectivity across Cigna Pharmacy/Core Solutions, and matrixed partners across the Enterprise to ensure the initiative architecture is positioned to achieve interim and long term success through the support of scope and impact assessment and solutioning for that strategic priority. This role requires high levels of influence across business and technology enterprise organizations, extensive business knowledge and innovative problem solving skills. This role is expected to serve as a trusted partner and advisor at all levels within the company.Duties & Responsibilities:
Drive progress towards strategic business goals of the organization through new program initiatives and foundational enhancements
Oversees the end to end development of forward-looking business architecture roadmap & value based on strategic goals, business process, and technology enablers for assigned initiatives
Supports Business Stakeholders and Product owners to create and maintain Strategic Priority artifacts, inclusive of Vision, Value, Metrics and Strategic Priority decomposition that tie back to overall Organization strategy & goals
Drive continuous improvement and communicate periodic refreshes and governance of Business Architecture frameworks and best practices – partnering with stakeholders to address gaps and develop new models/approaches as necessary
Deliver on impact assessments to enable business architecture for existing/new capabilities and decomposes new business initiatives
Supports the identification of capability dependency across programs and roadmaps to ensure dependencies are realized
Ensures clarity of what is needed to achieve strategic goals and priorities and is responsible for assessing and identifying needs leveraging opportunities across the Enterprise, including Evernorth to enable decisions and recommendations
Identifies capabilities required to realize Program Metrics in support of leading indicators
Communicate the “big picture” to Business stakeholders to achieve alignment on target states and roadmap
Provides leadership & guidance to make recommendations and collaborate with business to meet business needs
Supports development of new and innovative business capabilities
Leads business architecture ensuring alignment with Technology Solution Architecture to close operational gaps upfront in the initiative delivery lifecycle that arise during/post implementation
Qualifications:
10+ years of project experience on large cross functional initiatives
Experienced leader - Ability to lead, manage and influence cross functional teams
Process-oriented with quality mindset, strong organization and planning skills
Demonstrated ability to drive results required
Customer-orientation and customer insight/experience skills
Strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills
Ability to interpret and synthesize data, insights
Strong problem-solving skills; Innovation solution identification & development
Ability to create and implement contingency plans and solutions for problems that arise
Ability to interact effectively with all levels of the organization
Strong collaboration & relationship building skills
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.About Cigna HealthcareCigna Healthcare, a division of The Cigna Group, is an advocate for better health through every stage of life. We guide our customers through the health care system, empowering them with the information and insight they need to make the best choices for improving their health and vitality. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.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.If you require reasonable accommodation in completing the online application process, please email: [email protected] for support. Do not email [email protected] for an update on your application or to provide your resume as you will not receive a response.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.