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Software Engineering Advisor- Hybrid
Cigna Health And Life Insurance Company · 🇺🇸 St. Louis, MO
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 14 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest May 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 30 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Cigna Health And Life Insurance Company paid sponsored hires in similar roles1 certified filing for “Architecture Senior Advisor” (Software Developers) in CT: $169k–$169k, median $169k. Most were filed at wage level IV (100%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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Sponsor Radar — Cigna Health And Life Insurance Company
The US Department of Labor certified 14 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest May 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 30 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Cigna-Evernorth Services Inc. seeks a Software Engineering Advisor for the St. Louis, MO location to design, develop, and maintain complex enterprise software applications. Responsibilities: • Architect, write, and enhance sophisticated software solutions that support mission critical healthcare and Pharmacy Benefit Management (PBM) business functions. • Contribute to cross-functional engineering teams, drive end to end software design, development, and quality assurance efforts, and produce detailed technical specifications and solution designs. • Perform peer code reviews, uphold engineering best practices, and maintain complex application codebases through disciplined coding, testing, and debugging. • Lead the delivery of technical solutions for multiple concurrent projects within a major application ecosystem, ensuring high quality engineering execution and alignment with enterprise technology strategy. • Identify and implement process improvements, collaborate with architects to define technology roadmaps, modernize application components, and participate in decisions related to adoption or retirement of technology tools. • Contribute to reusable engineering standards, troubleshoot urgent production incidents, conduct root cause analysis, and drive long term corrective actions. • Utilize Java and Spring Boot to build enterprise microservices and orchestration layers. • Design, develop, and maintain backend data persistence solutions using MongoDB, including documenting schema modeling, indexing strategies, query optimization, and performance tuning. • Develop user interactive front-end applications using ReactJS, HTML5, XHTML, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, JSON, and Bootstrap. • Implement event driven architectures using Apache Kafka to support real time synchronization across distributed PBM systems. • Create reusable service libraries and build responsive client server workflows using AJAX and JSON for secure data exchange. • Design and implement API endpoints to support automated data exchange, user provisioning, and identity and access management workflows, integrating enterprise systems through Boomi middleware and Saviynt Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) solutions. • Utilize GitHub for version control and collaborative development, use Node.js and NPM scripts for build and test automation, and leverage Spring IoC and Dependency Injection to create modular and maintainable application components. • Write and maintain JUnit test suites, implement observability solutions using Dynatrace and New Relic, and enforce static code quality standards via SonarQube. • Support deployment of software components into integration and QA environments and utilize AWS and OpenShift for hosting, monitoring, and continuous integration of enterprise healthcare applications. • Hybrid work schedule. Qualifications: • Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field and 3 years of experience in any software engineering role in the Pharmacy Benefit Management (“PBM”) domain. • Will accept a Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of experience. • Must have experience with: claims adjudication, eligibility, benefit configuration, formulary logic, and regulatory compliance workflows; • Backend software development using Java and Spring Boot including Microservices Architecture, REST API design, Dependency Injection, and Distributed System Engineering; • Front-end application development using ReactJS including building dynamic, responsive, and accessible user interfaces aligned with healthcare and PBM workflows; • Web Development using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, JSON, and Bootstrap; • Real-time data integration and event-driven architecture using Apache Kafka including cross-database synchronization and