Cloud Engineering Sr. Advisor

This position is a temporary assignment. As a contractor, you’ll be employed by Magnit, not The Cigna Group or any subsidiaries of The Cigna Group.

100% Remote

Systems Analyst / Technical Delivery Analyst (6-Month to 1-year Contract)

Position Summary

We are seeking a Systems Analyst / Technical Delivery Analyst to support a Cloud Engineering and Platform Engineering organization. This role will work directly with the Director of Cloud Engineering to translate project requests, architectural discussions, and business requirements into well-defined epics, features, user stories, and technical documentation.

The ideal candidate combines strong analytical skills, project coordination experience, and enough technical knowledge to understand distributed systems, APIs, cloud-native applications, and platform services. They will be responsible for decomposing complex initiatives into clear, actionable work that can be executed by engineering teams with minimal clarification.

This role is critical to improving intake, planning, documentation quality, and execution consistency across multiple strategic initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

Requirements Analysis & Story Development

• Gather requirements from stakeholders, architects, engineering teams, and leadership.
• Analyze and decompose complex initiatives into epics, features, stories, and tasks.
• Define acceptance criteria that enable engineers to execute work with minimal ambiguity.
• Ensure stories are implementation-ready before entering delivery backlogs.
• Identify gaps, dependencies, assumptions, risks, and unanswered questions.

Technical Documentation

• Document current-state and future-state architecture.
• Create process flows, system interaction diagrams, and service dependency documentation.
• Maintain project documentation and technical runbooks.
• Develop solution overviews that clearly communicate scope and expected outcomes.

Platform & Systems Analysis

• Understand interactions between microservices, APIs, databases, messaging platforms, cloud infrastructure, and supporting services.
• Analyze service dependencies and identify impacts across systems.
• Assist with application and platform onboarding efforts.
• Support architecture review discussions by documenting findings and recommendations.

Project Coordination

• Track project deliverables and cross-team dependencies.
• Facilitate discussions between business, application engineering, and platform teams.
• Drive requirement clarification and stakeholder alignment.
• Support planning activities, backlog refinement, and prioritization sessions.

Process Improvement

• Improve consistency of intake requests and story quality.
• Establish repeatable documentation and requirements management practices.
• Help create standards for acceptance criteria and work decomposition.
• Contribute to governance and delivery process improvements.

Requires an extensive knowledge of the system development life cycle and of the business area's functions and systems, and application development alternatives.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience as a Systems Analyst, Business Systems Analyst, Technical Analyst, Product Analyst, or Technical Project Manager.
• Experience writing detailed user stories, acceptance criteria, and technical requirements.
• Ability to decompose large initiatives into executable work items.
• Experience working within Agile delivery teams.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience documenting complex technical systems and workflows.
• Ability to independently drive requirements gathering sessions.

Technical Knowledge

Candidate does not need to be a hands-on engineer, but should understand:

• APIs and microservice architectures
• Cloud platforms (AWS preferred)
• Containers and Kubernetes concepts
• CI/CD pipelines
• Databases and data flows
• Event-driven architectures and messaging systems
• Infrastructure-as-Code concepts
• System integrations and dependency mapping

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting platform engineering, cloud engineering, or infrastructure teams.
• Familiarity with AWS services.
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, DevOps, or similar tools.
• Experience creating process maps and architecture documentation.
• Understanding of distributed systems and cloud-native application design.

Advanced degree in Computer Science or a related discipline and at least six, typically eight or more years experience in systems analysis, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.

Hourly Pay Rate Range (dependent on location, experience, expectation) 

The pay range that Magnit reasonably expects to pay for this position is: $90.00/hour-$95.00/hour 

Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K (provided minimum eligibility hours are met)

We are unable to provide visa sponsorship or STEM OPT training.

The operator of this Talent Community is a global leader of contingent talent services. Our success and our clients’ success are built on a foundation of service excellence. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Unincorporated LA County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: client provided property, including hardware (both of which may include data) entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all portable client computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon completion of the assignment, and; maintain the confidentiality of client proprietary, confidential, or non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected client information technology systems and related data security obligations.

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.