Cognizant’s Digital Engineering practice is seeking a highly qualified Lead Java Engineer with experience developing and building high-performing, scalable, enterprise applications. You will be part of a digital software team that works on high-demand applications. Our engineers 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 in order to quickly deliver valuable working software to clients and their users. Our engineers are agile and retrospective, and not afraid to identify what we’re doing wrong, so we can fix it, and what we’re doing right, so we can improve on it. Above all, we judge success by the success of our team and the happiness of our customers.

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.

Location: McLean VA

You must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.
Cognizant will not sponsor H-1B or other U.S. work authorization for this role.

Roles and Responsibilities:

1. Extensive hands-on in backend end webservices/RESTAPI development using NodeJS
2. Cloud experience – AWS (ECS, LAMBDA, FARGATE) is must and experience in working AWS (EC2, S3, R53, RDS, IAM)
3. Utilize programming languages like Node.js, Java, Angular. Open-Source RDBMS and NoSQL databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of AWS tools and services
4. Collaborate with and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions in full-stack development tools and technologies
5. Share your passion for staying on top of tech trends, experimenting with and learning new technologies, participating in internal & external technology communities, mentoring other members of the engineering community.
6. Collaborate with digital product managers and deliver robust cloud-based solutions that drive powerful experiences to help millions of People achieve financial empowerment.
7. Leverage jQuery to handling inputs and outputs from database
8. Effective Client communication
9. Should be able to work on both Backend and Frontend technologies like NodeJS and AngularJS

Required Qualifications:

Must Have:

• Overall software development experience is 7+
• 6+ years of Handson experience in Node.js, REST API, 12-factor microservice principles.
• 3+ years’ experience in writing Node JS unit tests using Jest and Mocha
• 2+ years of experience on Node.JS V10 version.
• 3+ year of hands-on experience in jQuery, Jscript
• 2+ years of work experience in handling database using NodeJS.
• 3+ years Hands on experience on AWS ECS, EC2, Lambda, S3 and SQS
• Experience in Agile practices.

Preferred:

• Experience in Financial Domain.
• Handson experience in working with AngularJS 11+
• Handson experience in Java
• Experience in writing unit tests using Jasmine, Karma, Junit, Mockito
• People management experience
• Must be analytical, good team player and self-motivated
• Handson on experience/Knowledge in AWS Fargate

Travel: 0-5%
Why Choose Cognizant?
It takes a lot to succeed in today’s fast-paced market, and Cognizant Technology Solutions has become a leader in the industry. We love big ideas and even bigger dreams! We stand out because we put human experiences at the core. 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 skillsets fresh and have opportunities to acquire certifications on the newest technologies.
Everything we do at Cognizant we do with passion—for our clients (fortune 100 companies), our communities, and our organization. It’s the defining attribute that we look for in our people.
If you love ambiguity, excited by change, and excel through autonomy, we’d love to hear from you!

About Cognizant Digital Engineering
Well-designed software transcends digital technology, going beyond the fulfillment of basic requirements to focus instead on human needs. Within Cognizant Digital Engineering, we help clients develop software products that transform human insights into tangible, production-ready digital solutions. We also work with our clients to scale their native cloud applications. Using insights from the lived experiences of our consumers, we seamlessly replace traditional service strategies with engaging, precise, and direct digital applications. Designing phenomenal software is vital to success in the digital economy—and we understand that a human-centric approach is key to this design.
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