Cognizant Digital Engineering

If you’re like us, you’ve got big ideas. At Cognizant, we’re exploring new ideas every day. We help industry leading companies reinvent their business models and innovate products that create new value—by connecting people with things, insights and experiences.

Cognizant digital engineering designs, engineers and delivers digital products and experiences that drive digital-first business models. We offer the most comprehensive digital engineering expertise and client-centric methodology for sustainable innovation.

Job Summary

Cognizant is looking for a driven thought leader with experience in tailoring a customized product and solution for our clients. This individual will act as a trusted advisor and be responsible for providing an approach for the overall project. The role is expected to drive technology discussions and analyze the current landscape for gaps in addressing business needs. The individual in this role will review existing architecture and capabilities from technical perspective. Lastly, Cognizant needs a motivated individual to challenge the status quo and provide thought leadership/best practices to enhance our current services and technologies.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities:

Design and develop future-ready digital solutions for customers across industry verticals

Create digital technology solution and program roadmap by collaborating with strategy and design consultants

Assess and Design IT architecture strategies for cloud and PaaS platforms

Evaluate all functional requirements and map documents and perform troubleshoot on all development processes.

Collaborate with Cognizant internal stakeholders, product vendors, other third party service providers and the customer in the strategic design process to translate business needs into platform/custom solutions

Demonstrate technical expertise in modern Cognizant Digital Engineering and associated technologies, cloud platforms, data quality, governance and architecture

Develop and demonstrate proof of concepts

Lead technology consulting engagements, solution workshops and due diligence

Determine the availability and viability of third-party components and services as needed

Develop and design specifications for integration, products and technologies

Design quality control and test procedures to ensure the deliverables meet established design and performance goals

Drive  RFP creation, deliver on client requests and identify opportunities in line with account strategies

Solution design for App assessment, migration planning, operating model design

Solution design for legacy modernization using AWS/Azure services for app and data modernization

Technology competency areas – Cloud Native, Microservices and APIs,Reactive Systems, Analytics & Streaming Pipelines, Devops – CI/CD

Key Qualifications:

Must have at least 1 AWS/Azure Professional Certification

Excellent Powerpoint story telling skills

Hands-on AWS/Azure experience with a minimum of 2 implementations in enterprise scale environments

Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related Engineering subjects

Minimum of 10 years of experience in IT Consulting or in a solution architect role

Strong background in solution architecture

Experience in multiple technology platforms and domains desirable

Experience in designing and deploying cloud-native enterprise applications in public or private cloud

Expert understanding in Java/JEE/.NET, SOA, ESB, Messaging, BPM, Events

Working knowledge of Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and ability to design cloud-native applications

In-depth understanding of Domain Drive Design, and 12-Factor applications

Experience with continuous integration/deployment tools and best practices in DevOps

Excellent communication skills and able to successfully articulate technology concepts to both business and technology audience

Ability to quickly understand business requirements and propose reference architectures and technology solutions. Capable to present options and weigh implementation complexities and risks to recommend the right technical decision

Experience in web-based systems architecture, service-based architecture, enterprise application architecture as well as experience managing expectations when balancing alternatives against business and financial constraints

Preferred Experience & Domain Knowledge:

Banking & Financial Services industry (Retail/Commercial Banks, Capital Markets,Cards & Payment, Mortgage) will be plus.

Technical Skills

* Proficiency Legends