Java - Manager (Hybrid)

About Cognizant’s Digital Engineering Practice:

At Cognizant Digital Engineering, a small cross functional team comprised of a Product Manager, an Architect, Full-Stack Developers, UI/UX designers and Big Data analysts builds higher quality software faster siloed individuals working independently. Small, nimble engineering teams generate collective empathy and comradery, thus increasing their ability to anticipate unforeseen development scope changes and maintain high quality deliverables. Across our US Studio system or within client development sites, our Digital Engineering teams ideate and develop innovative cloud-based solutions following a Lean-Agile process with DevOps culture. Working in Cognizant Digital Engineering provides DevOps engineers consistent opportunities to push digital boundaries while growing their exposure to transformational technologies.  

The Role:

Cognizant is looking for an experienced and innovative Java - Manager 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: Riverwoods - IL

Roles & Responsibilities:

·       Provide overall direction, oversight and coaching for a team of software engineers that work on basic to complex tasks.

·       Sets the overall guidance and expectations for team output, practices and collaboration.

·       Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others.

·       Work efficiently and collaboratively in an Agile (Scrum or Kanban) team environment.

·       Responsible for design and delivery of high-quality features that complies with standards.

·       Technical responsibility for application architecture and design

·       Participate in Architecture and Engineering code and design reviews.

·       Create and execute automated test plans/strategies utilizing business requirements and collaborate with engineers/architects and clients to validate test environments, test data and test results.

·       Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality and technical operations.

·       Develop and implement best practices across entire project team with practicing continuous process improvement in mind.

·       Create a culture of diversity, equality, inclusion and respect for team members.

Required Skills:

·       Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related area with 8-12 years developing and/or architecting large complex systems

·       Proficiency in following languages: Java, JavaScript with 5 years of experience in Java

·       Experience with front end and backend frameworks: AngularJS/ReactJS and NodeJS

·       Expertise with Public Cloud (Azure/AWS)

·       Experience writing scalable and secure APIs.

·       Experience with Spring Boot and Rest Framework for developing Microservices.

·       Experience with TDD and modern testing frameworks

·       Willing to learn new technologies and enjoys working in a dynamic fast paced environment.

·       Good understanding of DevOps concepts and process and CICD tools such as Jenkins, Bamboo, etc.

·       Strong communication skills and participates actively in discussions with business stakeholders, architects and the team members.

Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, 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: 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.

Must Have Skills

• Spring Boot

• Java

• Core Java

Good To Have Skills

• AWS Cloud

• Jenkins

• Gradle

• REST Web Services

• Hibernate

Technical Skills

* Proficiency Legends