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Senior Business Analytics Advisor – Market Analytics

Are you energized by solving complex, high‑impact data challenges in regulated environments? As a Senior Business Analytics Advisor, you will design and deliver scalable, secure, and production‑ready data solutions that support critical business, legal, and regulatory needs across Market Analytics. Operating with high autonomy and deep technical judgment, you will serve as a trusted bridge between analytics, legal partners, and enterprise technology—bringing clarity, rigor, and innovation to complex data delivery.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver enterprise‑scale, cloud‑native data pipelines and curated datasets that support complex business, legal, and regulatory requirements.

• Engineer secure, auditable, and defensible data extracts to support high‑risk legal, litigation, and compliance use cases.

• Build and maintain scalable ELT and ETL workflows across enterprise and cloud analytics platforms to support batch and large‑scale processing.

• Partner closely with Legal, Market Analytics, Enterprise Technology, and Data Engineering teams to translate complex data requests into reliable technical solutions.

• Establish and champion best practices in data engineering, including automation, testing, monitoring, documentation, and governance.

• Ensure appropriate data security, lineage, retention, and chain‑of‑custody controls for sensitive legal and regulatory datasets.

• Act as a senior escalation point for complex data engineering, platform, and risk‑related challenges.

• Contribute to enterprise data modernization initiatives, including migration from legacy platforms to cloud‑based analytics environments.

• Lead through influence by setting standards, improving processes, and enabling repeatable, production‑ready data frameworks.

• Provide informal mentorship and technical guidance to analysts and partner teams as needed.

Qualifications

Required

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or advanced analytics roles.

• Extensive experience designing and delivering enterprise‑scale data solutions.

• Strong hands‑on expertise with Teradata, Python, SQL, Databricks, and cloud‑based analytics platforms.

• Prior PBM/PBS experience and/or knowledge.

• Proven experience building secure, auditable data pipelines supporting legal, regulatory, or compliance requirements.

• Deep understanding of data governance, data quality, lineage, and documentation practices.

• Ability to operate independently on complex, ambiguous, and high‑risk initiatives.

• Strong communication skills with the ability to partner effectively across technical and non‑technical teams.

Preferred

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in Analytics, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.

• Background in healthcare, PBM, insurance, or other regulated industries.

• Experience modernizing legacy analytics or reporting platforms.

• Familiarity with enterprise cloud architecture and data security standards.

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 112,800 - 188,000 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.

About The Cigna Group

Doing something meaningful starts with a simple decision, a commitment to changing lives. 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.

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 need a reasonable accommodation to complete the online application process, please email seeyourself@thecignagroup.com for assistance. Please note that this email inbox is dedicated to accommodation requests only and cannot provide application updates or accept resumes.

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.