Cognizant

Technical Lead

Cognizant
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13 hours ago
Chennai, IndiaSenior / Staff+

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design and implementation of scalable payment services across core transaction flows.
  • Translate cards and payments business requirements into technical solutions and integration designs.
  • Provide technical guidance, mentoring, code-structuring guidance, and reusable component development for the engineering team.
  • Drive performance optimization, defect triage, root cause analysis, and corrective actions for payment services.
  • Coordinate with product owners, business analysts, quality assurance, infrastructure, and operations teams.
  • Ensure secure coding, data protection, regulatory compliance, and industry-standard practices for cardholder information.
  • Support deployments, performance tuning, environment readiness, and day-to-day payment operations.
  • Guide integrations with external networks, issuers, acquirers, and internal banking systems.
  • Review solution designs, interface contracts, deployment procedures, and other technical documentation.
  • Promote unit, integration, and regression testing to improve payment reliability.

Requirements

  • Six to ten years of experience in Java, Sprint Boot, and Net Java development.
  • Hands-on experience building enterprise-grade payment services and deep knowledge of the cards and payments domain.
  • Knowledge of authorization, clearing, settlement, dispute handling, fraud checks, and regulatory requirements.
  • Experience designing and consuming RESTful services, message-based integrations, and middleware solutions.
  • Knowledge of relational databases, caching mechanisms, and transaction management for high-volume payment processing.
  • Experience with version control, continuous integration, and automated build tools.
  • Exposure to performance monitoring, logging frameworks, and alerting practices.
  • Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams in a hybrid work environment and during day shifts.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model.
  • Day-shift schedule.

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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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