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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What we offer
- The chance to work with impact. Here, you’re empowered to bring your biggest thinking to help our company and clients improve everyday life.
- Ownership over your career. Stay at the top of your game through our award-winning learning and development ecosystem. And when your ambitions change or we offer new opportunities, we help you pivot by providing reskilling, on-the-job learning and guidance to find new roles that might be a better fit.
- The opportunity to thrive on a high caliber team with heart. We celebrate each other’s experiences and perspectives and promote a sense of belonging through our affinity groups and diversity and inclusion initiatives.
- A comprehensive total rewards package, including a competitive salary and a pension plan with matching contributions.
- Flexible health and financial benefits to support you and your eligible dependents—from day one.
- True work-life balance. Be at your best through paid time off, flexible work arrangements, volunteering opportunities, social events, and so much more.
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.
Other employment-related information
Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer. Your application and candidacy will not be considered based on race, color, sex, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, provincial or local laws.
If you have a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening or submit an application, please email [email protected] with your request and contact information.
Language requirements vary depending on roles, but we ask that all candidates have basic English proficiency for company-wide communications purposes. For roles based in Quebec, professional English proficiency is required, as you’ll deliver services to and collaborate with stakeholders outside the province who may not speak French.
