Cognizant

Lead Developer

Cognizant
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1 day ago
Chennai, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop responsive web applications using CSS, HTML, JavaScript, and React for investment banking and brokerage operations.
  • Lead front-end features from technical design through coding, testing, and deployment while meeting enterprise and regulatory standards.
  • Guide developers on React component design, state management, performance optimization, secure coding, and maintainable code practices.
  • Review code and technical designs for reusable patterns, accessibility, security controls, error handling, and organizational compliance.
  • Collaborate with product owners, business analysts, operations, backend, infrastructure, cybersecurity, compliance, quality, and support teams.
  • Manage estimation, sprint planning, task prioritization, progress tracking, documentation, production troubleshooting, and continuous improvement.
  • Define unit, integration, and regression testing approaches and support modernization of legacy front-end modules.

Requirements

  • Five to eight years of overall development experience delivering complex front-end or enterprise-scale solutions.
  • Strong foundation in CSS, HTML, JavaScript, and React.
  • Practical knowledge of responsive design, cross-browser compatibility, performance optimization, and accessibility.
  • Familiarity with front-end build systems, testing frameworks, and version control platforms.
  • Strong problem-solving, analytical, communication, and stakeholder collaboration skills.
  • Experience working in hybrid models and with distributed teams.
  • Investment banking and brokerage domain knowledge, including trade lifecycle management and client servicing, is preferred.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work arrangement.
  • Day shift schedule.
  • No travel requirements.

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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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