Java Full Stack Lead (Remote)

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 Full Stack Lead 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: Woodland Hills, California

Responsibilities:

• Provide application screen walkthrough to product owners and gather their feedback to address it

• Participate in integration testing, UAT Testing, defect triaging, Production Implementation and Post Production activities

• Participate & provide Deployment Support and Production Validation of release projects. Work on the emergency issues identified in the projects

• Execute batch jobs and provide support to other upstream and downstream systems

• Do estimation and scoping of Project Features, User stories and Defects

• Act as a key liaison between our client and our offshore software development team in India

Required Skills:

• 8 – 12 yrs of relevant experience

• Primary Skills: Java/Spring boot and Angular

• Work on release management activities effectively right from analysis and then prepare technical design and participate in development activities for the projects allocated in Agile PI and release cycles

• Perform detailed analysis on customer issues to determine root causes and propose solutions on those items. Strong ability to work and lead the team independently on complex issues, and to collaborate efficiently to resolve customer issues quickly

• Work in technologies J2EE, Angular

• Monitor the application performance, logs, reporting, custom processes, business transaction trends and production alerts of the application

• Involve in application production support activities such as production defects, emergency issues & ADHOC support

• Do the peer review of program components being developed & defect fixes

• Work pro-actively in all release application, system, infrastructure, other dependent changes and prevent potential issues by documenting and notifying system gaps to the respective application or infrastructure support teams

Salary and Other Compensation

Applications will be accepted until 02/01/2024.

The annual salary for this position is between $99,800 – $143,300 depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program and stock awards, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.

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: The salary, other compensation, and 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.