Cognizant

Technical Lead

Cognizant
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18 hours ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design and implementation of secure, scalable APIs and data layers for user access and identity management.
  • Oversee authentication and authorization flows and ensure alignment with IT security standards and regulatory expectations.
  • Develop scalable .NET Core services, microservices, and modular components for enterprise integration.
  • Guide responsible use of GitHub Copilot, secure coding practices, maintainable architecture, and team mentoring.
  • Coordinate hybrid collaboration, backlog visibility, and delivery of identity and access management features.
  • Optimize Entity Framework Core data access for performance, query efficiency, and transactional integrity.
  • Embed threat modeling, input validation, encryption, and other secure design principles throughout the software lifecycle.
  • Collaborate with IT security and IT business support stakeholders to define technical requirements and prioritize feature roadmaps.
  • Define automated testing strategies for API, authentication, authorization, and data protection functionality.
  • Resolve identity and access incidents through root-cause analysis, corrective changes, and improved logs, metrics, and alerts.
  • Document technical designs, API contracts, and operational runbooks for support and governance.
  • Improve coding standards, deployment pipelines, monitoring capabilities, operational resilience, and protection of personal information.

Requirements

  • Strong experience building secure, scalable services with ASP.NET Core Web API and .NET Core.
  • Advanced proficiency with Entity Framework Core, including data modeling, migrations, performance tuning, and transactional operations.
  • Practical expertise using GitHub Copilot to improve developer productivity, code quality, security, and compliance.
  • Proven experience with user access and identity management, including authentication, authorization, and account and role lifecycles.
  • Deep understanding of IT security, secure coding, incident response coordination, enterprise security frameworks, and audit expectations.
  • Background in IT business support and translating stakeholder needs into stable technical services and features.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model with coordinated day-shift team collaboration.
  • Opportunity to contribute to sustainability, societal impact, trusted digital interactions, and protection of personal information.

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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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