.Net/Azure Solutions Architect (Hybrid)

Cognizant hiring for .Net/Azure Solutions Architect (Hybrid) jobs in Washington, DC, US

.Net/Azure Solutions Architect (Hybrid)

Cognizant’s Digital Engineering practice is seeking a highly qualified Solutions Architect with experience in DotNet Platform and Azure Cloud, developing and building high-performing, scalable, enterprise applications. You will be part of a digital software team that works on high-demand applications. Our Architects have a passion for high-quality, reliable and maintainable code. You will work side by side with product managers, designers, and clients, making decisions together in order to quickly deliver valuable working software to clients and their users. Our engineers are agile and retrospective, and not afraid to identify what we’re doing wrong, so we can fix it, and what we’re doing right, so we can improve on it. Above all, we judge success by the success of our team and the happiness of our customers.

Cognizant Digital Engineering If you’re like us, you’ve got big ideas. At Cognizant, we’re exploring new ideas every day. We help industry leading companies reinvent their business models and innovate products that create new value—by connecting people with things, insights and experiences. Cognizant digital engineering designs, engineers and delivers digital products and experiences that drive digital-first business models. We offer the most comprehensive digital engineering expertise and client-centric methodology for sustainable innovation.

Location: Washington, DC, USA (Hybrid)

• You must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.

Responsibilities:

• Lead design for project Libra, develop and maintain core architectural constructs, provide architectural leadership to relevant teams from various location across the globe.
• Communicate critical technical choices, specify requirements and constraints for design and implementation, and provide feedback for scoping the level effort for the project.
• Provide a long-term vision for the platform, considering changes in technology within the context of ITS current implementation and our feature roadmap.
• Advise on deployment strategies for new features and components, assessing if rollout plans are safe, progressive, and reversible.
• In-depth understanding of the business environment, its processes and complexities of the organization and apply the knowledge towards the proposed work program.
• Design and validate solutions that are practical, flexible, resilient, scalable, reusable, and strategic.
• Contribute to the development of a body of generally applicable frameworks, methods, procedures, and deliverables.
• Recognize and identify potential areas where existing policies and procedures require change, or where new ones need to be developed, especially regarding future business expansion.
• Present, discuss, and walk through the merits of the solutions recommendations with a group of enterprise architects.
• Institute and lead the adoption of best practices and standards, to improve the quality of the deliverables.
• Ensure best practices are adhered to in the adoption of new technologies.
• Architect solutions across multiple IT environments and Business system components, envision solution for projects / programs / applications.
• Research, evaluate, and select from existing and emerging technologies the options best fitting business and IT strategic needs.
• Interact with the Enterprise Architecture and Enterprise Platform teams to ensure that solutions are built in alignment with the defined enterprise standards.
• Handle daily technical challenges and communicate with management if there are any risks or issues.
• Well-versed in the latest technologies and tools being used to improve IT development and delivery.
• Coordinate effort within different IT groups like Enterprise Architecture, Office of Information Security, Data Management Office as and when needed.
• Understanding of security best practices and standards.
• Work with team members to offer contextualized technology strategies, solutions and roadmaps which are aligned to their business needs.
• Document key artifacts related to WBG application environments, integration platforms, data flows, application inventories, entity-relationships, and process workflows.
• Help build supporting frameworks for on-premises, mobile, cloud-native and hybrid solution architecture approaches and implementations aligned with specific business application requirements and constraints.
• Identify the area in the architecture and design that are contributing towards technical Debt and provide recommendations to remediate same.
• Work with enterprise architecture team to align various solutions architecture to enterprise standard, reference architecture, patterns, and best practices.
• Identify technology trends which have the potential for the World Bank to accelerate the use of innovative digital platforms and/or hosting solutions.
• Developing target-state guidance (reusable standards, guidelines, individual parts, and configurations) for evolving the technical infrastructure across the enterprise, to enable business strategy and deliver business outcomes.

Qualifications:

• About 16+ years of experience in architecting complex applications.
• Experience with IT projects in the Financial Industry (Lending / Loan process/projects). Experience in Greenfield application architecture.
• Experience with IT projects applying multiple technologies and frameworks, particularly agile/hybrid agile.
• Deep knowledge and experience of Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud platforms and services in an enterprise environment. Experience with IaaS/PaaS cloud architectures and patterns (e.g., horizontal scaling, immutability, 12-factor design).
• Prior experience with leading cloud native solution development initiatives.
• Experience with delivering effective strategies for cloud integration.
• Experience designing and implementing CI/CD toolchains leveraging Microsoft TFS, Git/SVN, Chef, Jenkins, etc. Experience with cloud infrastructure and application templates (e.g., using AWS Cloud Formation, Azure Resource Manager).
• Familiarity with micro-frontends, implementing microservices and container-based architectures and deployments (e.g., Docker, Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes).
• Prior success in designing cloud applications, supporting changes to development, testing, deployment, migration/transformation, and configuration management processes consistent with a DevOps approach.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to define technology roadmaps and evaluate total-cost-of-ownership of solutions.
• Experience evaluating cloud service designs and alternatives to achieve desired balance of performance, risk, and cost.
• Familiarity with deployment patterns/strategy (blue/green, canary, rolling, draining)
• Experience managing programs and/or multiple projects, including simultaneous task assignments.
• Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate with all management levels.
• Strong documentation, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Organized, agile, persistent, and proactive. Ability to work on multiple tasks within tight deadlines.
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly, self-starters and motivated, and able to work with others, and communicate effectively.
• Actively seeks knowledge needed to complete assignments and shares knowledge with others, communicating and presenting information in a clear and organized manner.
• Delivers information effectively in support of team or workgroup. Good writing and editing skills, with a strong command of English and an ability to convey complex ideas in a clear, direct, and lively format.
• Able to take personal responsibility and accountability for timely response to client queries, requests or needs, working to remove obstacles that may impede execution or overall success.
• Strong experience in Modern Integration – cloud and in-premise and/or hybrid, APIs, and ESB/SOA; and Data/Dataflow governance, strategy, & implementation.

Salary and Other Compensation:

Applications will be accepted until 03/10/2024.

The annual salary for this position is between $150K – $180K 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.

Travel: 0-5%

Why Choose Cognizant?

It takes a lot to succeed in today’s fast-paced market, and Cognizant Technology Solutions has become a leader in the industry. We love big ideas and even bigger dreams! We stand out because we put human experiences at the core. Our associates enjoy robust benefits and training opportunities from our industry-recognized, award-winning Academy team. You will have access to hundreds of technical trainings to keep your skills fresh and have opportunities to acquire certifications on the newest technologies.

Everything we do at Cognizant we do with passion—for our clients (fortune 100 companies), our communities, and our organization. It’s the defining attribute that we look for in our people.

If you love ambiguity, excited by change, and excel through autonomy, we’d love to hear from you!

About Cognizant Digital Engineering

Well-designed software transcends digital technology, going beyond the fulfillment of basic requirements to focus instead on human needs. Within Cognizant Digital Engineering, we help clients develop software products that transform human insights into tangible, production-ready digital solutions. We also work with our clients to scale their native cloud applications. Using insights from the lived experiences of our consumers, we seamlessly replace traditional service strategies with engaging, precise, and direct digital applications. Designing phenomenal software is vital to success in the digital economy—and we understand that a human-centric approach is key to this design.

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About Cognizant

Headquartered in the U.S, Cognizant is a member of the S&P-500, Nasdaq-100, Fortune 200, and was recently ranked as the #1 Fastest Growing “All Star” by Fortune Magazine. Cognizant uses a highly flexible business model, a detailed global delivery network, and deep domain expertise to deliver to a long list of best-in-class companies that are leaders in their own space.

Cognizant is recognized as a Military Friendly Employer and is a coalition member of the Veteran Jobs Mission. Our Cognizant Veterans Network assists Veterans in building and growing a career at Cognizant that allows them to demonstrate the leadership, loyalty, integrity, and commitment to quality instilled in them through participation in military service.

Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer provider and committed to creating a diverse environment. Cognizant considers all applicants without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, age, and marital status, disabilities, sexual orientation or preference, veteran status, or any other classification protected by state, federal, or local law.

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Employee Status : Full Time Employee

Shift : Day Job

Travel : No

Job Posting : Feb 07 2024

About Cognizant

Cognizant (Nasdaq-100: 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. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant is ranked 185 on the Fortune 500 and is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com or follow us @USJobsCognizant.

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