Lead Java/AWS Engineer

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/AWS 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: Wilmington, Delaware Responsibilities: Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture Experience with building APIs - RESTful APIs, Web Services, Spring Boot, with strong understanding of Microservices architecture Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies Experience with Java/J2SE/J2EE with a deep understanding of the language and core API's Required Skill: 13 years of experience in design, build and implementation of highly scalable enterprise applications Proficient in Java, Spring Framework, Spring Boot, ORM (Hibernate) Hands-on project experience in design, development, and deployment of micro services. Familiar with API First design (OpenApi/Swagger) Hands on experience in well architected application and data design, troubleshooting, resiliency Hands on experience in developing microservices for containerized platform (docker and Kubernetes), messaging platform (Kafka) Hands on experience with relational databases (Oracle, SQL, Postgres) in data model design, implementation and performance tuning No-SQL database experience is good to have - DynamoDB, MongoDB, Cassandra etc. Experienced with AWS cloud technologies (EKS, Fargate, Lambda, S3,RDS, terraform). AWS Developer or Solution Architect certification preferred DevOps - Git, Sonar, Jenkins, Monitoring tools (Splunk, Datadog, AWS Cloud Watch, AWS code pipeline etc.) Proficiency with Agile Scrum delivery methodology Beginner to advanced experience with Front-end technologies - micro front, React, React libraries, CSS, Bootstrap and interfacing with backend services Strong communication skills and experienced in delivering projects in Scrum agile methodology Guide and mentor, the pod team (API, Front-end, Testing) by helping to address the technical challenges, define standards, and patterns. 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