2 days ago
Base Salary
$100k - $132k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead technical delivery from requirements analysis through implementation, deployment, and production stabilization.
- Investigate and resolve complex production issues involving Tuxedo, Pro*C, Oracle SQL/PLSQL, Unix/Linux, interfaces, and batch processing.
- Drive root-cause analysis and implement permanent corrective actions to improve platform stability and performance.
- Gather requirements and provide solution recommendations in partnership with business and product stakeholders.
- Support releases, code deployments, production validation, and post-release monitoring.
- Mentor developers and support teams on best practices, troubleshooting, system design, and technical problem solving.
- Identify performance bottlenecks and implement tuning strategies across application, database, and infrastructure layers.
- Communicate project risks, dependencies, estimates, technical constraints, and remediation plans to stakeholders.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to meet operational excellence and service-level commitments.
Requirements
- 10+ years of hands-on experience in enterprise application development and support.
- Strong expertise in Oracle Tuxedo, Pro*C, C/C++, Oracle Database, SQL, and PL/SQL.
- Extensive experience with Unix/Linux operating systems and shell scripting.
- Experience leading technical teams and owning end-to-end delivery of complex application initiatives.
- Strong production troubleshooting, debugging, incident management, and root-cause analysis skills.
- Experience working with business users, product owners, and stakeholders on requirements gathering and solution design.
- Experience supporting batch processing, integrations, middleware components, and distributed enterprise applications.
- Understanding of software development life cycle, release management, and deployment processes.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and technical leadership skills.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- Healthcare or retail pharmacy experience, large-scale production systems experience, modernization or legacy transformation experience, performance monitoring and capacity planning knowledge, cloud adoption or enterprise architecture exposure, and global delivery experience are preferred.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement in Deerfield, IL: three days in the office and two days remote, subject to project and client requirements.
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance, subject to eligibility.
- 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.
- Eligibility for a discretionary annual incentive program.
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.