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Technology Lead

Cognizant Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Posted: 14 Aug 2024

Financial

  • Estimate: $120k - $180k*
  • Zero income tax location

Accessibility

  • Hybrid
  • Visa Provided

Requirements

  • Experience: Senior
  • English: Professional

Position

About the Job
We are looking for a Technology Lead responsible for managing a Development team. This role encompasses managing complex back-end services and their corresponding client-side applications (desktop and mobile). Your primary responsibility will be to design and develop these applications while coordinating with the rest of the team working on various infrastructure layers. A commitment to collaborative problem-solving, sophisticated design, and product quality is essential.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a senior professional with 10-12 years of experience.
  • Translate application storyboards and use cases into functional applications.
  • Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Java code.
  • Ensure optimal performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications.
  • Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these issues.
  • Help maintain code quality, organization, and automation.
  • Manage the team and successfully deliver projects.

Skills and Qualifications

  • Experience working in an agile software development environment with a solid understanding of agile architecture principles.
  • Strong collaborative mindset for decentralized decision-making.
  • Demonstrate strong technical skills with a deep understanding of modern architectural styles and practices, including Microservices, Containers, Cloud (AWS, Azure), APIs, Continuous Delivery, Event-driven architecture, and Evolutionary architecture, along with a passion for coding.
  • Solid foundation in software architecture concepts, patterns, principles, and quality attributes, with the ability to apply them in real-world scenarios using a pragmatic, systems-thinking approach.
  • Proven leadership skills with a proactive, positive, and growth-oriented mindset.
  • Ability to foster and motivate programmers in delivering craftsmanship.
  • Excellent personal communication skills, with an egoless and empathetic mindset.
  • Experience in delivering architectures for large software solutions addressing critical business needs.
  • Capability to proactively uncover technical debts and identify continuous improvement opportunities in existing live systems.
  • Work closely with the product owner and enterprise architects to influence and prioritize technical backlog items.

Technical Skills Required

  • Proficient in Java & Java EE with a solid knowledge of its ecosystems.
  • Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google and Serverless architecture.
  • Front-end technology experience (e.g., Angular, React, Vue, Flutter) and familiarity with Node.js is a plus.
  • Understanding of concepts such as OOP, MVC, JDBC, and RESTful services.
  • Experience handling JSON and Swagger Open API specifications, microservices orchestration, service mesh, authentication, and authorization.
  • Proficient in NoSQL (preferably MongoDB) and RDBMS (e.g., Oracle, PostgreSQL) with the ability to write complex SQL queries, procedures, and functions.
  • Experience in designing and creating database schemas to support business processes.
  • Proficient in Spring framework (Spring Core, Spring Boot, Spring Batch, Spring Data, Spring Security) and Hibernate ORM.
  • Familiarity with messaging technologies such as JMS, ActiveMQ, IBM MQ, and Apache Kafka.
  • Expertise in container-based architecture, including Kubernetes and Docker.
  • Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins and GitLab CI/CD.
  • Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (Azure Repo, Bitbucket, Git, GitLab).
  • Familiarity with build tools (Ant, Maven, Gradle).

This position offers a unique opportunity to lead innovative technology solutions in a dynamic environment. If you possess the necessary skills and are ready to advance your career, we would love to hear from you.

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About Cognizant

Cognizant is a global leader in business and technology services, helping clients bring the future of work to life. With over 347,700 employees worldwide, we specialize in transforming experiences, reimagining processes, and modernizing technology across various industries.

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