Senior Consultant

Overview

What makes Cognizant a unique place to work? The combination of rapid growth and an international and innovative environment. This is creating opportunities for people with an entrepreneurial spirit who want to make a difference in this world. At Cognizant, you will collaborate with colleagues from around the world to create solutions for leading companies and help them become more flexible, more innovative, and successful.

Position Summary

The Senior Consultant / Full Stack Engineer is responsible for designing, developing, and delivering robust, scalable software solutions that align with client goals and business requirements. This role requires a solid foundation in modern software engineering, effective collaboration, strong system architecture knowledge, performance optimization, and secure development practices. The engineer will contribute across the full technology stack, working with cross-functional teams to build and maintain high-performing applications and cloud-based infrastructure. The position also involves driving automation, enhancing deployment pipelines, and enabling reliable, enterprise-grade software delivery.

Mandatory Skills

- 11+ years of experience in software engineering with a strong focus on full-stack application development.

- Minimum 8 years of hands-on experience with Spring Boot, Spring Core, Spring MVC, and Node.js

- Minimum 4 years of hands-on experience with Terraform, IAC, and Gitlab Pipelines.

- Domain expertise in Banking, Healthcare, Travel, Research, and Education, with understanding of regulatory and compliance requirements.

- Proven working experience with Java 11+, Spring Boot, Spring Batch, Spring Security, JPA, Hibernate, Python and Kafka.

- Proven working experience in frontend technologies including React.js, Next.js, TypeScript, React Query, Redux, Jotai, HTML5, CSS3 and Tailwind CSS.

- Proven working experience in backend development with Node.js, Express.js and the JavaScript ecosystem.

- Practical experience with cloud platforms such as AWS (Lambda, EKS, ECS) and Azure (AKS, Cognitive Services, SSO).

- Strong understanding of microservices architecture, distributed systems, and event-driven frameworks.

- Experienced with databases including PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Neo4j, and Oracle DB.

- Proficient with infrastructure, CI/CD, and configuration management tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Harness, Git, SonarQube, Splunk, and the ELK stack.

- Deep knowledge in REST API and GraphQL development and best practices.

- Proven experience in unit and integration testing using tools like JUnit, Jest and Wiremock.

- Familiarity with encryption technologies and key management systems.

- Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, communication, and leadership skills.

- Solid understanding of object-oriented programming (OOP) and design patterns.

- Solid experience working in Agile Scrum development environments.

Duties and Responsibilities

- Design, build, deploy and maintain full stack enterprise applications for large-scale enterprise solutions.

- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.

- Architect and implement cloud-native microservices and web applications using modern frameworks and tooling.

- Develop frontend interfaces using responsive design principles and cutting-edge frameworks.

- Manage and optimize backend APIs with high-performance Java and Node.js components.

- Implement DevOps practices including CI/CD pipelines, cloud deployments, code reviews, and monitoring.

- Participate in peer reviews, ensure code quality, and support continuous integration and deployment workflows.

- Troubleshoot production issues, perform root cause analysis, and apply sustainable fixes.

- Guide and mentor junior engineers while actively contributing to team capability uplift.

- Maintain comprehensive documentation for codebases, APIs, and architectural decisions.

- Stay current with industry best practices and emerging technologies to continuously improve solution design and delivery.

Qualifications & Certifications

- Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Software Engineering

- Scrum Master Certified

- HashiCorp Terraform Associate

- Oracle Certified Professional Java Application Developer

- Oracle Certified Web Component Developer

Salary Range: >$100,000

Date of posting: 19-Aug-25

Next Steps

If you feel this opportunity suits you, Cognizant invites you to apply directly. For a complete list of open opportunities with Cognizant, visit Cognizant Careers. Cognizant is committed to providing Equal Employment Opportunities. Successful candidates will be required to undergo a background check.

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