Job Description:

UI Architect

Cognizant Interactive

Cognizant is a strategic partner to the Fortune 2,000, helping the world's most influential companies to build software and solutions, empowering our clients' businesses and enabling their competitive advantages.

Cognizant Interactive helps clients reinvent products, experiences and business models to create new value, differentiation and drive revenue in the digital economy. We take an Experience centered approach which uses human insights to take ideas from vision to outcome and building end to end experience led solutions that enables brands to transform their customer and employee experiences using design, marketing and commerce capabilities

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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.

An ideal candidate is someone who enjoys working in a fast paced, collaborative environment.  Someone that values the “team” and leverages the opinions and expertise of their teammates to deliver quality.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

We are looking for a passionate Digital Solutions Leader who can design and implement application architecture and own the application strategies and roadmap for a suite of systems or domain. The primary areas of focus are core development, design and direction of application architecture and alignment of architecture with business objectives and high-level company technology direction in helping clients envision and build a rich interactive, reliable and scalable digital ecosystem

The UI Architect will partner with other architects and technology decision-makers to guide overall direction of the user interface layer of the site and will work closely with Technical Leads, Application Architects, Software Developers and Management in a highly collaborative environment.

The candidate should have a proven track record of delivering to strategic business vision, enterprise level architecture strategies, and developing innovative enterprise IT enablement practices that create business value.

 REQUIRED SKILLS

• 14+ years’ experience in the design, development and use of component based UI architectures. Additional consideration for experience working with high volume eCommerce websites


• Lead and direct UI software engineers and graphic designers and demonstrable knowledge of large scale, JavaScript application architectures


• Expert level understanding of the HTML DOM and underlying event model

• Strong knowledge and hands-on experience in React JS, Redux / Angular, Advanced JavaScript, ES6/TypeScript,


• Strong knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap / foundation UI / Material UI, REST, Jest / Enzyme / Chai / Mocha, SSR (Next JS), GraphQL


• Advanced knowledge of unit testing best practices and Continuous Integration processes (CI/CD)


• A strong understanding of approaches and techniques to optimize web performance


• Advanced knowledge of build systems such as Grunt/Gulp/ etc, including Linting, Compiling, Minifying, etc


• Participate in code and design reviews to ensure consistency in architecture and design/code practice


• Understanding of design strategies for effectively leveraging CDNs


• In depth understanding of agile development methodologies


• Experience delivering large programs in a complete agile model


• Work closely with next generation architecture development teams using cutting edge approaches and technologies.


• Work on new tools in leading industry trends, with new and emerging technologies, prototypes and engineering process improvements


• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or Master’s Degree in Computer Science/Engineering.

DESIRED SKILLS - Knowledge and experience in the below domains

• Mobile technologies (Hybrid and Native Apps)


• SalesForce / Sitecore


• Knowledge of AWS/GCP/Microsoft Azure/AEM


• Understanding of Jenkins and other Pipeline Automation related technologies


• Understanding of TeamCity / Octopus

Technical Skills

SNo	Primary Skill	Proficiency Level *	Rqrd./Dsrd.
1	React JS	PL4	Required
2	React	PL4	Required
3	HTML 5	PL4	Required
4	CSS	PL4	Required

 

Domain Skills

SNo	Primary Skill	Proficiency Level *	Rqrd./Dsrd.
1	Data Management	NA	Required

 

* Proficiency Legends

Proficiency Level	Generic Reference
PL1	The associate has basic awareness and comprehension of the skill and is in the process of acquiring this skill through various channels.
PL2	The associate possesses working knowledge of the skill, and can actively and independently apply this skill in engagements and projects.
PL3	The associate has comprehensive, in-depth and specialized knowledge of the skill. She / he has extensively demonstrated successful application of the skill in engagements or projects.
PL4	The associate can function as a subject matter expert for this skill. The associate is capable of analyzing, evaluating and synthesizing solutions using the skill.

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