Java Technical Lead (On-site)
Cognizant’s Digital Engineering
Our practice is seeking a highly qualified Java Developer with experience in developing and building impactful, scalable, enterprise applications. Our Developers have a passion for high-quality, reliable, and maintainable code. You will work side by side with product managers, designers, and clients, making decisions together to quickly deliver valuable working software to clients and their users. Our developers are agile and retrospective, and not afraid to identify what we’re doing wrong, so we can fix it, so we can improve on it. Above all, we judge success by the success of our team and the happiness of our customers.
Location: Hartford, Connecticut state
**Candidate must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future**
Responsibilities
• Find opportunities for continuous automation and optimizations in the Production Environment for the Group Benefits domain.
• Design, implement and automate the continuous integration and deployment pipelines.
• Define strategies for Application Performance Monitoring, Resiliency and Chaos Engineering.
• Design and create Observability dashboards for monitoring and generating alerts.
• Perform fault injection experiments to uncover hidden bugs and monitor blind sports in the application and infrastructure.
• Perform root cause analysis and incident management. Collaborate with Development Team members to perform code fixes and run unit and integration tests.
• Assess and evaluate production issues to optimize the MTTR.
• Engage actively in system design, capacity planning and use case reviews.
Qualifications
• Hands-on experience building microservices with Java 17, Spring Framework (Spring Boot 3, Spring Web Flux, Spring Data or Spring JDBC).
• Five plus years hands on experience in application software development
• Hands-on experience with Automation and building Continuous Integration and Deployment pipelines using any of Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CloudFormation, Terraform and Ansible.
• Hands-on experience using Open Telemetry with Observability tools such as Splunk and Dynatrace.
• Trained / Hands-on experience with Dockers, Kubernetes, AWS EKS, AWS ECS, AWS Lambda, AWS SQS and AWS FIS (Fault Injection Service)
Travel: 0-5%
Salary and Other Compensation:
Applications will be accepted until May 15th, 2025.
The annual salary for this position is between $70K - $117,000 depending on the experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.
Why Choose Cognizant?
Our associates enjoy robust benefits and training opportunities from our industry recognized, award winning Academy team. You will have access to hundreds of technical trainings to keep your abilities fresh and have opportunities to acquire certifications on the newest technologies.
If you became comfortable with ambiguity, delight by change, and excel through autonomy, we’d love to hear from you!
“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, state or local laws.”
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 and one of Forbes World’s Best Employers 2024) is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world.
Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com.
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 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.
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, state or local laws.
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Disclaimer:
Compensation 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.
Applicants may be required to attend interviews in person or by video conference. In addition, candidates may be required to present their current state or government-issued ID during each interview.