Position Overview:
The Enterprise Architecture - Data Architecture Senior Principal is a Band 5 Senior Contributor responsible for defining and advancing the enterprise data and analytics architecture strategy, target states, and multi-year roadmaps across the organization. This role serves as a recognized architecture authority, setting the northstar vision for modern data platforms, analytics, and AI-enabled capabilities—translating business priorities into pragmatic, scalable, and future-ready architectures. Operating with high enterprise influence and no direct reports, this role requires strong executive presence, the ability to influence without authority, and a relentless focus on enabling data-driven decision making, hyper-personalization, and AI-first innovation. Key Outcomes
- Enterprise Data & Analytics Vision: Define and publish a business-aligned data and analytics architecture strategy with a clear 3–5 year roadmap covering data platforms, governance, analytics, AI/ML, and integration layers.
- Scalable & Reusable Data Foundations: Establish modern, modular data architectures that reduce fragmentation, promote reuse, and enable enterprise-scale analytics and AI.
- Decision Velocity through Architecture Governance: Implement architecture principles, guardrails, and decision frameworksto improve speed, consistency, and quality of analytics and data platform decisions.
- AI-Ready & Insights-Driven Enterprise: Enable analytics-ready data, semantic layers, and AI capabilities that accelerate insights, automation, and intelligent decisioning.
- Cross-Domain Alignment: Act as a unifying architecture leader across Digital, Data, AI, Security, and Business domains to ensure alignment on key investment and design decisions.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategy & Architecture Leadership
- Define and evolve enterprise data & analytics architecture strategy, capability maps, and target-state designs.
- Develop and maintain multi-year roadmaps aligned to business outcomes, cost optimization, and innovation priorities.
- Establish a data-as-a-product and platform-based operating model.
Data Platform & Analytics Architecture
- Architect modern data platforms (cloud-native databases, data lakehouse, streaming, real-time pipelines, semantic/ontology layers).
- Define patterns for data ingestion, transformation, storage, access, and consumption.
- Enable self-service analytics, BI, and advanced analytics capabilities across the enterprise.
- Lead architecture for AI/ML platforms, feature stores, and model lifecycle integration.
Integration & API Architecture
- Define enterprise integration strategy spanning APIs, messaging, event streaming, data sharing, and intelligent orchestration.
- Establish architecture standards for API-led connectivity, event-driven architecture, service-mesh, and real-time integrations
- Define reusable integration patterns across digital channels, core platforms, data and AI platforms
- Lead architecture for enterprise interoperability including healthcare interoperability, FHIR ecosystem, and external data exchanges
Data Governance, Privacy & Compliance
- Embed data governance, quality, lineage, metadata, and stewardship frameworks into architecture design.
- Ensure architectures support regulatory, privacy, and security requirements by design.
- Establish patterns for trusted, secure, and compliant data usage.
Innovation & Emerging Capabilities
- Drive innovation in AI/ML, GenAI, agentic analytics, and intelligent automation.
- Evaluate and guide adoption of emerging technologies (e.g., knowledge graphs, semantic models, real-time decisioning).
- Lead proof-of-concepts and pilot initiatives for next-generation analytics capabilities.
Governance & Decision Enablement
- Provide architecture leadership for high-impact data and analytics initiatives.
- Establish reference architectures, reusable patterns, and standards for enterprise adoption.
- Drive alignment across portfolios to reduce duplication and optimize investments.
Delivery Partnership & Enablement
- Partner with engineering, product, and data teams to ensure architectures are executable, scalable, and cost-efficient.
- Enable adoption of modern engineering practices (DataOps, MLOps, CI/CD for data).
- Support vendor/platform strategy (e.g., lakehouse, cloud, third-party integrations).
Talent & Community Leadership
- Serve as a mentor and thought leader across the architecture and data community.
- Drive adoption of best practices, patterns, and architectural discipline.
QualificationsRequired Skills & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field.
- 12+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, data engineering, or analytics platforms.
- Proven success defining data/analytics architecture strategies, target states, and roadmaps.
- Deep experience in large-scale, regulated enterprise environments (e.g., healthcare, financial services).
- Strong ability to influence senior stakeholders without direct authority.
- Expertise in:
- Modern data platforms (Lakehouse, Data Mesh, Data Fabric)
- Cloud ecosystems (Azure, AWS, GCP)
- APIs, event-driven architecture, and streaming
- Data governance, security, and privacy frameworks
- AI/ML and advanced analytics platforms
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 174,800 - 291,300 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.
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, paid holidays, and leaves of absence. For more details on our employee benefits programs, .
