IT Principal at Cigna Group

This position within the AI Center of Enablement represents the apex of technical leadership for AI engineering across The Cigna Group defining the future of AI engineering capabilities and making critical technical decisions with multi-year impact. The AI Engineering Principal serves as the organizations foremost authority on AI platform engineering combining unparalleled technical depth with strategic vision organizational influence and the ability to drive transformational change in how the enterprise builds and deploys AI systems. This role establishes multi-year technical strategy for AI platform evolution architects foundational platforms enabling hundreds of use cases drives adoption of emerging AI paradigms across the enterprise and shapes technical standards that influence hundreds of engineers and thousands of AI applications.This position is the top technical authority for AI engineering at The Cigna Group. As an AI Engineering Principal you will define the future of AI capabilities make multi-year architectural decisions and align technical strategy with business goals. You will design enterprise AI infrastructure set organizational standards lead modernization initiatives and bring cutting-edge AI research into production ahead of industry adoption.Key ResponsibilitiesDefine long-term AI platform strategy and anticipate technology shifts.Make foundational architectural decisions shaping enterprise AI for years.Champion strategic investments for sustainable healthcare AI advantage.Establish technical principles and reference architectures as organizational standards.Architect and implement enterprise AI platforms on AWS balancing speed security HIPAA compliance and cost.Create frameworks that simplify complexity and accelerate AI development.Build advanced RAG systems with graph databases vector stores and intelligent retrieval.Develop agent frameworks for planning tool use and multi-agent collaboration.Implement techniques like model distillation fine-tuning synthetic data generation and evaluation pipelines.Deliver observability platforms for model performance and cost tracking.Build security and compliance frameworks addressing prompt injection data leakage adversarial attacks and HIPAA.Required QualificationsBachelors in Software Engineering Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience).12 years in software engineering 6 years building production AI/ML systems at scale.Expert in Python and AI frameworks; recognized contributions to open source or standards.Proven experience architecting AI platforms serving thousands of users or millions of requests.Deep knowledge of LLM providers (OpenAI Anthropic Mistral Llama) and model architectures.Mastery of orchestration frameworks (Langchain Pydantic-AI LangGraph).Advanced expertise in RAG architectures and query optimization.Expert-level AWS knowledge including Bedrock SageMaker and cost optimization.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 149000 - 248300 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 and long term incentive plan.We want you to be healthy balanced and feel secure. Thats why youll enjoy a comprehensive range of benefits with a focus on supporting your whole health. Starting on day one of your employment youll be offered several health-related benefits including medical vision dental and well-being and behavioral health programs. We also offer 401(k) with company match 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 visit Life at Cigna Group.About The Cigna Group Doing something meaningful starts with a simple decision a commitment to changing lives. At The Cigna Group were 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.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: for support. Do not email 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.Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with all federal state and local ordinances. Key Skills Business Development,Classroom Experience,Dayforce,Go,Cloud Computing,AWS,Teaching,Administrative Experience,Leadership Experience,negotiation,SAS,Data Analysis Skills Employment Type : Full-Time Experience: years Vacancy: 1