3 days ago
Base Salary
$103k - $163k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture and technical delivery across airline API and GDS workstreams.
- Translate complex business requirements into scalable engineering solutions.
- Design and guide modernization of legacy services and integrations into AWS-based architectures.
- Provide technical leadership across Java/Spring Boot services, APIs, Kafka integrations, MongoDB data layers, Python workloads, and cloud infrastructure.
- Serve as a technical and domain subject matter expert for airline, GDS, uAPI, SOAP/XML, and REST integrations.
- Partner with client stakeholders, Product Owners, developers, QA teams, and business analysts on dependencies, delivery quality, architecture decisions, and releases.
- Provide technical mentorship across engineering teams.
Requirements
- 15+ years of experience architecting and delivering enterprise solutions using Java, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, microservices, REST/SOAP APIs, XML, and JSON.
- Deep airline and travel-domain knowledge, including Airline PSS, GDS platforms such as Galileo and Worldspan, and fares and pricing.
- Experience designing secure, scalable, highly available AWS solutions using ECS/EKS, Lambda, IAM, and API Gateway.
- Proven experience with Apache Kafka, event-driven architectures, real-time streaming, and decoupled service integrations.
- Strong experience designing and integrating data solutions with MongoDB.
- Experience working across Agile delivery environments.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- Preferred experience with Python for data workflows, AI/ML utilities, automation, or microservices.
- Preferred experience modernizing or migrating legacy, mainframe, or TPF-based travel applications to cloud-native environments.
- Knowledge of airline Offer & Order management workflows and complex host integrations is preferred.
- Experience with Datadog, Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow, Postman, SoapUI, and CI/CD pipelines is preferred.
- Experience with Agile/SAFe delivery models is preferred.
Benefits
- Remote position open to qualified applicants in the United States, subject to business, project, and client requirements.
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
- Paid holidays and paid time off.
- 401(k) plan and contributions.
- Long-term and short-term disability coverage.
- Paid parental leave.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Various wellbeing programs supporting work-life balance.
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About Cognizant
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.