Responsibilities:
- Lead design and architecture discussions for new features and platform improvements
- Define and document target-state architecture with Regional Architecture teams
- Write and review code and implement critical components
- Mentor engineers, provide feedback, and support career development and hiring
- Plan and deliver work by breaking down requirements and driving sprint execution
- Ensure quality and reliability through code reviews and testing strategies (unit, integration, e2e)
- Leverage AI-assisted coding to improve development productivity
- Drive CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and deployment processes
- Collaborate with Product, QA, DevOps, and stakeholders on requirements and timelines
- Manage technical debt by identifying and prioritizing remediation efforts
- Ensure security, compliance, and performance best practices, including shift-left security and threat modeling
- Track and report engineering metrics (velocity, cycle time, defect rate, availability)
Qualifications and Skills:
- Strong programming experience in backend and front-end technologies (Java 8 and latest version, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Angular, React)
- Proven system design skills for building scalable distributed systems (microservices, event-driven architectures)
- Practical experience with cloud platforms (AWS) and containerization (Docker)
- Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Strong understanding of databases (SQL and NoSQL), caching, and messaging systems
- Familiarity with testing strategies, automated frameworks, and observability tools (logs, metrics, tracing)
- Strong problem-solving, debugging, and performance tuning skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with cross-functional stakeholders
- Experience in vendor management
- Professional software engineering experience (7+ years) with leadership exposure (2–4+ years in technical lead or senior role)
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About us
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is an AI Builder and technology services provider, building the bridge between AI investment and enterprise value by building full-stack AI solutions for our clients. Our deep industry, process and engineering expertise enables us to build an organization’s unique context into technology systems that amplify human potential, realize tangible returns and keep global enterprises ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at www.cognizant.com or @cognizant.
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