.NET Technical Lead
About Us:
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build, and run more innovative and efficient businesses. We help our clients modernize technology, reimagine processes and transform experiences so they can stay ahead in our fast-changing world. Together, we're improving everyday life. See how at www.cognizant.com or @cognizant.
Fulltime position with Cognizant
Job Title : .NET Technical Lead
Location : The Woodlands - TX USA (Hybrid) - Onsite 3 days a week
The Role: Individual Contributor External Facing Role for application support and enhancements
Essential Functions:
• Design, code, unit test, and deploy multi-tenant, highly available software components using a variety of open-source technologies.
• Associate will need to be able to analyze requirements, code, and issues to devise strategies and understand solutions.
• Actively participate in requirements, architecture, and design meetings.
• Work efficiently and collaboratively in an Agile (Scrum or Kanban) team environment.
• Role is for application support and enhancements.
Qualifications :
Education : BS in Computer Science or related major
Required Experience :
• Backend API developer with 8+ years of experience.
• Expert with .Net Core, C# and Microservices.
• Expert with ORM framework like Entity Framework, Entity Core.
• Intermediate knowledge of SQL Server and Postgres databases.
• Should have working knowledge of Gateways, service to service communications, AKS, and Azure.
• Strong communication is needed. The candidate should be able to own deliverables, communicate risks, and concerns both internally within the team or externally to stakeholders like product partners.
• Be willing to learn new skills whether they are directly tied to software development, software testing, server maintenance, or web application release and delivery.
• Associate should be flexible, eager to learn, creative and stay motivated.
• Communicate well in person, over email, and via instant messenger within the team and with other development teams to improve quality, advance standards, and handle issues.
• Be self-directed and able to prioritize your own workload.
Desired Experience:
• Angular, React, Oracle, GitHub
Behavioral Competencies:
• Understand and empathize with others.
• Coach people through powerful questions rather than use of authority
• Expert facilitation skills
• Quick critical thinking skills to analyze a situation and organize and guide teams to solve problems.
• Always learning and sharing with teams and team members
Technical Competencies:
• Skillset required : .Net core, C#, Entity Framework, SQL server, Azure, Microservices are the must to have skills.
• Additional Skills - Angular, React, Oracle, GitHub etc. are good to have skills.
Work Authorization
• Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship (H-1B, L-1B, L-1A, etc.)
Salary and Other Compensation:
The annual salary for this position is between $[80,000.00 - 100,000.00] depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.
This position is also eligible for Cognizant's discretionary annual incentive program, 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.
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Qualifications
Technical Skills
SNo
Primary Skill
Proficiency Level *
Rqrd./Dsrd.
1
SQL Server
PL1
Required
2
Entity Framework
PL1
Required
3
.Net Core
PL1
Required
4
Microservices
PL1
Required
5
Azure, Angular, React, Oracle, GitHub
PL1
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.