Senior Architect (IT Principal), Enterprise Architecture - Contact Center & Service Transformation

Cigna Healthcare

$139K — $233K *
Healthcare
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (advanced degree preferred)
  • 8+ years in software engineering, infrastructure, or architecture
  • Proven enterprise architecture experience with target states and capability maps
  • Demonstrated ability to influence decisions across technology and business teams

Responsibilities

  • Define target-state architectures and multi-year roadmaps
  • Drive enterprise alignment by clarifying trade-offs and dependencies
  • Shape omnichannel servicing patterns and AI-enabled solutions
  • Optimize portfolio investments for value and sustainability
  • Clearly communicate architecture direction to both executives and technical teams
  • Facilitate adoption through coaching and partnership

Benefits

  • Flexible working arrangements with remote work options
  • Access to advanced technology in a dynamic environment
  • Opportunity to influence and drive value-based roadmaps
  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams and executive leadership
  • Focus on innovative AI capabilities and customer experience improvements
Full Job Description
Senior Architect, Enterprise Architecture - Enterprise Servicing

Career Architecture Title: IT Principal Architect, Enterprise Architecture

Position Summary

The Senior Architect, Enterprise Servicing shapes the enterprise architecture for an end-to-end member/patient servicing experience across digital self-service, contact center/voice, and supporting operational workflows. This role defines horizontal servicing capabilities, aligns line-of-business initiatives to the target state, and drives value-based roadmaps that improve customer experience, advocate effectiveness, and cost-to-serve.

Partnering across Enterprise Architecture, Product, Technology, Operations, and business leaders, this role provides architectural direction in complex, fast-changing environments-clarifying options, influencing decisions, and translating business needs into actionable technology strategy. The architect operates with high autonomy, executing from intent rather than instruction, and serves as a trusted advisor at executive and delivery levels.

Depth across all domains is not required; success depends on setting clear direction, enabling alignment, and partnering effectively with platform, data, AI, and operations teams.

Key Focus Areas
  • Unified servicing journeys across digital, voice, and operations
  • AI-enabled advocate experience and agentic servicing
  • Workforce enablement and operational insights
  • Knowledge, data, and context foundations for AI and servicing
  • Enterprise servicing platform modernization and orchestration

Definition of Success
  • Seamless, low-effort, high-resolution customer experiences
  • AI-enabled advocates with reduced cognitive burden
  • Improved workforce forecasting, staffing, and coaching
  • Scaled servicing capabilities with improved agility and reduced time-to-value

Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (advanced degree preferred)
  • 8+ years in software engineering, infrastructure, or architecture
  • Proven enterprise architecture experience (target states, capability maps, standards, multi-year roadmaps)
  • Demonstrated ability to influence enterprise decisions across business and technology teams


Core Responsibilities
  • Define target-state architectures, roadmaps, and reference patterns
  • Drive enterprise alignment by clarifying trade-offs, dependencies, and sequencing
  • Shape omnichannel servicing patterns and AI-enabled capabilities
  • Optimize portfolio investments for value, scalability, and sustainability
  • Communicate architecture direction clearly to executive and technical audiences
  • Enable adoption through guardrails, patterns, coaching, and partnership


Critical Competencies
  • Strategic mindset and systems thinking
  • Strong influence and executive communication skills
  • Ability to operate in ambiguity and manage complexity
  • Results-oriented leadership with a collaborative, problem-solving mindset


Preferred Experience
  • Healthcare and servicing domain experience
  • AI capabilities delivered to production
  • CCaaS / voice platforms and omnichannel servicing
  • Workforce management, knowledge transformation, and service orchestration


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 139,900 - 233,100 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, click here.

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