2 days ago
Base Salary
$100k - $155k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, and delivery of modern .NET services and APIs while migrating legacy applications to cloud-native AWS architecture.
- Drive engineering excellence through sprint planning, code reviews, coding standards, and maintainable development practices.
- Partner with business and product stakeholders to refine requirements, define acceptance criteria, and deliver customer features.
- Mentor and guide offshore development teams, remove delivery blockers, and provide progress updates to project leadership.
- Extract business logic from SQL Server stored procedures into scalable C# services while maintaining functional parity through automated testing.
- Support CI/CD pipelines and production releases, ensuring secure and reliable deployments.
- Use AI-assisted development tools while maintaining accountability for code quality, security, and technical decisions.
Requirements
- 12+ years of software development experience, including 5+ years working with modern .NET and ASP.NET Core Web APIs.
- Experience designing, building, and deploying microservices or independently deployable distributed applications.
- Strong expertise in C#, .NET, SQL Server, and advanced T-SQL development.
- Hands-on experience migrating business logic from stored procedures into application services.
- Knowledge of API design, OpenAPI specifications, OAuth 2.0, and JWT-based security models.
- Experience with EF Core, Dapper, asynchronous programming, and application performance optimization.
- Hands-on AWS experience with ECS/Fargate, RDS for SQL Server, and messaging or event-driven technologies such as SQS, SNS, or EventBridge.
- Experience implementing automated unit, integration, and API/contract testing.
- Leadership experience managing and mentoring development teams, including offshore resources.
- Preferred qualifications include enterprise legacy-platform modernization, event-driven and cloud-native architecture, regulated-environment experience, security and compliance knowledge, CI/CD and DevSecOps practices, automated deployment strategies, and AI-assisted software development tools.
Benefits
- Remote position open to qualified applicants in the United States, with work arrangements subject to 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.
- Some projects may require in-person interviews at Cognizant offices or client locations.
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.