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At Cognizant, together with your colleagues from all around the world, you will collaborate on creating solutions for the world's leading companies and help them become more flexible, more innovative, and successful. Moreover, this is your chance to be part of the success story.
Position Summary:
We are seeking a skilled and driven Software Engineer to join our Aged Care and Hospitality team. The role involves collaborating with stakeholders and technical teams to design, build, and support scalable software solutions that meet business and operational needs, with a strong focus on quality, security, and continuous improvement.
Mandatory Skills:
•Hands-on experience with Microsoft enterprise platforms: Azure, Dynamics 365, Service Manager.
•Strong understanding of business process and workflow analysis for clinical and operational applications.
•Experience in impact, dependency, and risk assessment for incidents, change requests, and system enhancements.
•Knowledge of functional testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) processes.
•Familiarity with DevOps and collaboration tools: Jira, Confluence, Octopus Deploy.
•Strong analytical, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills across application, integration, and database layers.
•Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, translating business requirements into clear functional specifications.
•Experience in system monitoring, performance analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives.
•Strong experience in analysing business and system requirements, incidents, service requests, and change requests within ITIL / ITSM frameworks.
•Proficiency in SQL for data validation, workflow analysis, and system investigation.
Duties and Responsibilities:
•Analyse and define business and system requirements for aged care and hospital care applications to enhance and operational and clinical workflows.
•Engage with business stakeholders, product owners, and technical teams to understand open issues, enhancement requests, and system change requirements.
•Conduct end-to-end system analysis across UI, middleware, and database layers to identify root causes and functional gaps.
•Perform impact, dependency, and risk analysis for incidents, change requests, and system enhancements.
•Develop and execute SQL queries to analyse data, validate business rules, and support requirements validation and system investigations.
•Support functional and UAT testing, ensuring solutions meet approved business, functional, and regulatory requirements.
•Collaborate with development and infrastructure teams to ensure successful implementation, deployment readiness, and post-deployment stability.
•Maintain comprehensive documentation: functional specifications, process flows, impact assessments, and known issues.
•Monitor system performance, identify optimization opportunities, and recommend continuous improvement initiatives.
•Support API validation and system integration testing using tools like Postman.
•Maintain system security standards, ensuring compliance with industry best practices and policies.
Qualifications & Certifications (Optional):
•Master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or related field.
•Microsoft platform certifications (Azure, Dynamics 365, Power BI) a plus.
•Additional certifications in SQL, Power BI, Databricks, Rstudio, database management, or software testing are advantageous.
•Experience in healthcare, aged care, or hospital care IT systems is desirable.
•Familiarity with DevOps practices, API testing (Postman), and enterprise application monitoring tools is preferred.
Salary Range: >$78,500 to $88,500
Date of Posting:16-Apr-26
Next Steps: If you feel this opportunity suits you, or Cognizant is the type of organization you would like to join, we want to have a conversation with you! Please apply directly with us.
For a complete list of open opportunities with Cognizant, visit http://www.cognizant.com/careers. Cognizant is committed to providing Equal Employment Opportunities. Successful candidates will be required to undergo a background check.
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.
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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.