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About Us:
Cognizant is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build, and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant, a member of the NASDAQ-100, is ranked 195 on the Fortune 500 and is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com.
About Cognizant’s IoT Practice:
Intelligent, IoT-enabled products will soon result in the proliferation of data and disrupt virtually all industries. To be successful, both large and small companies must leverage IoT capabilities by designing modern products that fundamentally connect people with processes. Within Cognizant IOT, we engineer industry-aligned, IoT-enabled products that merge industry needs with human drivers. Our intelligent products will revolutionize experiences and result in exciting, transformative outcomes. Without human-centered thinking, connected products are just standalone things—but with it, our modern connected products facilitate a unified way of life enjoyed by all.
Job Summary
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior/Lead .NET Developer with strong leadership experience to design, develop, and deliver resilient, high-throughput, and scalable enterprise applications. The ideal candidate will lead development teams, drive technical excellence, and build modern cloud-native solutions using Microsoft technologies and event-driven architectures.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a team of developers, ensuring high-quality deliverables and adherence to best practices
- Design and develop scalable, high-performance, and resilient applications using .NET Core and C#
- Architect and implement microservices-based solutions with focus on fault tolerance and scalability
- Build and optimize high-throughput systems capable of handling large volumes of transactions and data
- Design and implement event-driven architectures using Kafka, ensuring reliability, durability, and performance
- Develop and manage containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes, leveraging auto-scaling capabilities
- Deploy and maintain applications in Microsoft Azure cloud environment, utilizing cloud-native scalability features
- Implement resiliency patterns such as retries, circuit breakers, bulkheads, and graceful degradation
- Design systems for horizontal scaling, load balancing, and distributed processing
- Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test, and deployment processes
- Ensure system observability, monitoring, and performance tuning
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (architects, product owners, DevOps) to deliver solutions
- Drive adoption of modern development practices including AI-assisted coding tools (Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude)
Required Skills & Qualifications
- 8+ years of software development experience, with strong expertise in .NET Core and C#
- Proven experience in technical leadership or team lead roles
- Strong experience with SQL Server, database design, indexing, and performance tuning for high-volume systems
- Hands-on experience with Entity Framework / EF Core
- Demonstrated experience building highly scalable, resilient, and distributed systems
- Strong knowledge of microservices architecture, REST APIs, and asynchronous messaging patterns
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes, including scaling and orchestration
- Experience building CI/CD pipelines for enterprise-grade applications
- Hands-on experience with event-driven systems and platforms like Kafka (partitioning, consumer groups, throughput tuning)
- Familiarity with modern AI development tools (GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude)
- Strong problem-solving and system design skills
Experience with observability tools (Application Insights, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)
Compensation: - Base Salary + COLA and this position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans. Application will be accepted by 7/30/2026
Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:
• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
• Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
• 401(k) plan and contributions
• Long-term/Short-term Disability
• Paid Parental Leave
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
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