Technical Architect/Lead Cognizant
Lake Forest, CA

Job Description

We continuously seek exceptional associates when recruiting new employees. We pride ourselves on having extensive experience working with clients in all major markets. Cognizant's delivery model is infused with a distinct culture of high customer happiness. We consistently deliver positive relationships, cost reductions and business results.

Are you ready to be a change-maker?

At Cognizant, we believe those who challenge the way they work today will lead the way tomorrow.

What you'll be doing:

YOUR QUALIFICATIONS

Our strength is built on our ability to work together. Our diverse backgrounds offer different perspectives and new ways of thinking. It encourages lively discussions, inspires thought leadership, and helps us build better solutions for our clients. We want someone who thrives in this setting and is inspired to craft meaningful solutions through true collaboration.

If you're comfortable with ambiguity, excited by change, and excel through autonomy, we'd love to hear from you.

Job Roles/Responsibilities:

* Participate in all activities of the complete SDLC process, including formal written documentation and interaction with customers
* Create, design, develop, and document software based on technical requirements
* Work with a team of developers to ensure each deliverable meets quality and timeline goals
* Must take ownership of development tasks (typically collaborating with others) and ensuring that implementation generally adheres to the architecture, best practices, and organization coding standards
* Participate in code reviews, code analysis, and identification of software risks
* Create detailed written technical documentation based on functional requirements and as part of the SDLC
* Developing new application using C# and AngularJS
* Optimizing components for maximum performance

Mandatory Skills:

Must have 10-15 years of hands-on experience developing business applications.

C# language, WPF, AngularJS, Web API - Hands on working knowledge. 8 (1-10 scale)

Object Oriented Programming - Hands on working knowledge - 8 (1-10 scale)

Strong software Engineering concepts - SOLID, Design Patterns etc. - 7 (1-10 scale)

Unit Testing - Hands on working knowledge/exposure - 8 (1-10 scale)

Database concepts - Hands on working knowledge/exposure - 7 (1-10 scale)

Hands on working knowledge/exposure with Windows Server and non-Server OS / dev environment