.NET Azure Architect (onsite)

The Role:

Cognizant is looking for an experienced and innovative Senior .NET/Azure Architect to serve our diverse base of global clients. As a member of our team, you will build cutting edge, cloud-based software that powers modern business. An ideal candidate is someone who enjoys working in a diverse, collaborative, geographically distributed team. Similarly, the ideal candidate is an expert engineer who values the “team”, drives continuous improvement and is unafraid to challenge the legacy status quo with creative cloud-based solutions.

Location: This is an onsite role working in Washington DC.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand workload requirements, performance expectations, and scalability needs.
• Consider factors such as virtual machines (VMs), containers, serverless computing, and batch processing.
• Determine the appropriate compute resources (VM sizes, instance types, etc.) based on workload characteristics.
• Balance cost-effectiveness with performance requirements. Implement auto-scaling strategies to handle varying workloads.
• Be capable of designing for High availability and fault tolerance. Optimize parallel processing, GPU utilization, and distributed computing.
• Ensure efficient data movement and synchronization.
• Design event-driven workflows that respond dynamically to triggers.
• Leverage Azure Event Grid and Azure Event Hubs.
• Integrate security best practices into compute designs.
• Implement access controls, encryption, and network segmentation.
• Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations.
• Define monitoring metrics for compute resources. Set up alerts, logging, and diagnostics.
• Troubleshoot performance bottlenecks and optimize resource utilization.
• In depth understanding of the business environment, its processes and complexities of the organization and apply the knowledge towards the proposed work program.
• Design and validate solutions that are practical, flexible, resilient, scalable, reusable, and strategic.
• Promote component-based development, emphasizing reusability and consistency.
• Recognize and identify potential areas where existing policies and procedures require change, or where new ones need to be developed, especially regarding future business expansion. Present, discuss, and walk through the merits of the solutions recommendations with a group of enterprise architects.
• Institute and lead the adoption of best practices and standards, to improve the quality of the deliverables.

Qualifications

· 13+ years of experience in architecting/designing compute-intensive solutions with .net and Azure.

• Design compute workloads utilizing networking components and micro segmentation Familiarity with IAM, Azure Policy and Private Link configuration Provide a long-term vision for the platform, considering changes in technology within the context of ITS current implementation and our feature roadmap.
• Domain knowledge with Loan/Lending Design compute architectures that optimize resource utilization, minimize latency, and enhance overall system performance.
• Be capable of designed transactional compute patterns with compensation patterns Explore serverless computing options (Azure Functions, Logic Apps, etc.) for event-driven workloads.

• Applications will be accepted until 12/19/2024

  The annual salary for this position is between $102,600 to $162,500 depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

  Benefits:

  Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position along with the base salary, 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

  Disclaimer: The benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.

La Comunidad Cognizant:
Somos un equipo que se aprecia y apoya mutuamente. Nuestros asociados trabajan en un entorno colaborativo e integrador en el que todos pueden prosperar.

• Cognizant es una comunidad global con más de 300.000+ asociados en todo el mundo.
• No solo soñamos con un mundo mejor, sino que trabajamos para hacerlo realidad.
• Cuidamos de nuestros asociados, clientes, socios, comunidades y entorno haciendo lo correcto.
• Fomentamos un entorno innovador en el que puedes desarrollar tu carrera profesional.

Acerca de nosotros
Cognizant es una de las principales empresas de servicios profesionales del mundo, transformando los modelos de negocio, operativos y tecnológicos de los clientes para la era digital. Nuestro enfoque consultivo único, basado en la industria, ayuda a los clientes a visualizar, construir y gestionar negocios más innovadores y eficientes. Con sede en los EE. UU., Cognizant (miembro del NASDAQ-100 y uno de los mejores empleadores del mundo según Forbes en 2024) está constantemente listado entre las empresas más admiradas del mundo. Descubra cómo Cognizant ayuda a los clientes a liderar con lo digital en www.cognizant.com.

Nuestro compromiso con la diversidad e inclusión:
Somos una empresa que ofrece igualdad de oportunidades, que adopta la diversidad, defiende la equidad y valora la inclusión. Apostamos por fomentar una comunidad en la que todos se sientan escuchados y aceptados.  En tu solicitud y candidatura no se tendrán en cuenta cuestiones de raza, color, sexo, religión, credo, orientación sexual, identidad de género, nacionalidad, discapacidad u otra condición protegida por la legislación.

Si tienes alguna discapacidad que requiera ciertas adaptaciones para buscar un puesto de trabajo o presentar una solicitud, envía un correo electrónico a CareersNA2@cognizant.com con tu solicitud e información de contacto.

Advertencia: 
La información sobre remuneración es exacta a la fecha de esta publicación. Cognizant se reserva el derecho a modificar esta información en cualquier momento, sujeto a la legislación aplicable.Es posible que los candidatos deban asistir a entrevistas en persona o por videoconferencia e, incluso, que tengan presentar su documento de identidad vigente, durante cada entrevista.