Cognizant

Technical Lead

Cognizant
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Chennai, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Lead end-to-end design and implementation of front-end solutions using JavaScript and React.js.
  • Drive web application architecture decisions focused on scalability, maintainability, and performance.
  • Guide engineers on modern JavaScript practices, state management, modular coding, and asynchronous operations.
  • Review code and uphold coding, security, performance, and quality standards.
  • Oversee React.js integration with backend services and APIs, including contracts, data flows, and error handling.
  • Collaborate with product and merchandising stakeholders to define technical specifications for catalog, pricing, and promotion capabilities.
  • Provide effort estimates, technical risk assessments, and implementation plans for releases and resource allocation.
  • Monitor production performance through analytics, logging, and metrics and drive optimization efforts.
  • Promote secure development practices including input validation, session management, and secure data handling.
  • Improve branching, code review, automated testing, and development workflows.
  • Document technical decisions, reusable patterns, and component designs.
  • Partner with quality specialists to define unit, component, and integration testing strategies for React.js applications.

Requirements

  • Eight to ten years of practical experience with JavaScript and React.js.
  • Strong understanding of HTML, CSS, responsive design, and browser compatibility.
  • Experience with merchandising domains such as product catalog management, pricing workflows, and promotions.
  • Knowledge of hybrid work collaboration and distributed-team communication.
  • Proficiency with version control and structured branching workflows.
  • Familiarity with automated build and deployment pipelines.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail when addressing defects, performance issues, and user feedback.

Benefits

  • Hybrid day-shift work arrangement with onsite and remote collaboration.
  • No travel or off-shift coverage required.

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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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