Cognizant

Lead Developer

Cognizant
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1 day ago
Chennai, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement complex front-end features using JavaScript and Angular for investment banking and brokerage applications.
  • Build reusable component architectures and state management patterns for scalable client-facing trading and reporting tools.
  • Optimize rendering, latency, and application performance under heavy market data and transaction loads.
  • Integrate APIs and define data contracts with backend engineers across trading systems, risk engines, and client dashboards.
  • Conduct code reviews, reduce technical debt, mentor developers, and promote modular design and testing practices.
  • Investigate production incidents, identify root causes, and implement fixes for trading and settlement workflows.
  • Document application architecture, coding standards, and deployment procedures.
  • Coordinate collaboration and communication across onsite and remote hybrid teams during day-shift operations.
  • Align application design with financial regulatory, compliance, reporting, and audit-readiness expectations.

Requirements

  • Strong hands-on expertise building complex front-end modules with JavaScript and Angular.
  • Understanding of web application performance optimization for responsive and stable applications under heavy data and transaction loads.
  • Experience collaborating effectively across hybrid and distributed engineering and product teams.
  • Exposure to investment banking operations, including trade life cycles, settlements, reconciliations, and risk reporting.
  • Knowledge of investment banking and brokerage concepts such as positions, orders, executions, and client portfolios.
  • Strong front-end debugging and problem-solving skills.
  • Commitment to clean code, unit testing, modular design, maintainability, and secure coding practices.
  • Ability to stay current with Angular ecosystem updates, JavaScript standards, and emerging application patterns.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work arrangement with collaboration across onsite and remote team members.
  • Day-shift operations.

Tech Stack

AngularJavaScript

Categories

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About Cognizant

10,000+ employees

Cognizant is a public IT services and consulting firm that designs, builds, and runs enterprise technology, including digital engineering, cloud modernization, data/AI, and managed services. It sells consulting, systems integration, and outsourcing on multi-year engagements to large enterprises in healthcare, banking, retail, communications, and manufacturing. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey, Cognizant is NASDAQ-listed (CTSH) and a Fortune 500 company.

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