Senior Director Software Engineering
Cigna Healthcare
* Lead Cigna Analytics Engineering department with around 100 software engineers. * Responsible for high performance big data analytics engineering, data engineering, infrastructure and platform. * Strategy, planning, budgeting, and operations of Cigna Analytics Engineering department. * Thought leadership and innovation.* Managed annual budget of around $20M* Lead project initiation, prioritization, budgeting, team allocation, and delivery with agile process.* Manage business relationships, and interface to executive management.* Provide technical leadership to the IT development team.* Built and trained onshore and offshore engineering teams.Major accomplishments: * Enterprise Analytics Platform, an integrated ecosystem of tools, infrastructure and process to enable end to end lifecycle of analytics exploration, development, operationalization, governance, compliance, monitorability and support. Developed natively on AWS utilizing mostly open big data technologies stack, such as spark, pyspark, R as well as utilizing AWS services such as Kubernetes(EKS, ECS), Kinesis, GLUE etc, and touchless path to production CI/CD using Cloudbees on AWS.* Risk model framework for faster analytics development and operationalization utilizing home grown feature template repository and integrated training as well as scoring infrastructure. * Conceived and implemented easier customization of analytics for client specific member data, resulting in vastly improving speed to market analytics to new clients.* Conceived and implemented an augmented intelligence engine that is used to generate targeted, timely recommendations and actions for various clinical purposes.* Implemented model inventory, governance, compliance, auditability for all analytical models and data.* FinOps monitoring and optimizations.