Java Lead (Hybrid)

Our practice is seeking a highly qualified Java Lead Developer with experience in developing and building impactful, scalable, enterprise applications.

Our Developers have a passion for high-quality, reliable, and maintainable code. You will work side by side with product managers, designers, and clients, making decisions together to quickly deliver valuable working software to clients and their users.

Our developers are agile and retrospective, and not afraid to identify what we're doing wrong, so we can fix it, so we can improve on it. Above all, we judge success by the success of our team and the happiness of our customers.

Location: New York

Applications will be accepted until April, 25th, 2025

The annual salary for this position is between $80,000 - $93,500 depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

This position is also eligible for Cognizant's discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant's applicable plans.

**Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in the United States**

• 10+ years Java development experience
• Hands-on experience in Java, Spring Boot, and AWS
• Effectively manage client engagement from Onshore.
• Good working knowledge on SAML2.0, OAuth and API protection.
• Knowledge on Authentication and Authentication Integration experience.
• Should have a come across handling Performance tuning/Load testing findings.
• Ability to work on Vulnerability/Penetration testing fixes.
• Hands-on experience on end-to-end migration activities over Legacy apps.
• More exposure on Logical and analytical knowledge on applications.
• Process oriented knowledge on NFR's and Feature based work.
• Should have a real passion for learning and understanding the application and share knowledge with team.
• Strong technical skills in Java 8 development(Spring, Spring Boot).
• Proactive in looking into the tasks and ask questions to learn more and build individual ownership and responsibility on tasks.
• Expert in debugging issues by looking at Monitoring tool and application logs to come up with defined RCA.
• Jenkins CI/CD nice to have.
• Good communication and presentation skills

Skillset: Java, Spring Boot, AWS, RESTful API, Jenkins, JIRA, Maven, Tomcat, RDBMS Database, Agile, Web server, log4J, Unix/Linux, JSON, GIT, and Microservice

Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:

• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
• Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
• 401(k) plan and contributions
• Long-term/Short-term Disability
• Paid Parental Leave
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.

Travel: 0-5%

Why Choose Cognizant?

Our associates enjoy robust benefits and training opportunities from our industry recognized, award winning Academy team. You will have access to hundreds of technical trainings to keep your abilities fresh and have opportunities to acquire certifications on the newest technologies.

If you became comfortable with ambiguity, delight by change, and excel through autonomy, we'd love to hear from you!

Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer provider and committed to creating a diverse environment. We consider all applicants without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, age, marital and family status, disabilities, sexual orientation or preference, veteran status or any other classification protected by state, federal or local law.

Headquartered in the U.S, Cognizant leverages a highly flexible business model, a flawless global delivery network, and deep domain expertise to deliver to a long list of world-class companies that are leaders in their own space.

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