Senior .NET/Azure Architect

About Cognizant's Digital Engineering Practice:

At Cognizant Digital Engineering, a small cross functional team comprised of a Product Manager, an Architect, Full-Stack Developers, UI/UX designers and Big Data analysts builds higher quality software faster siloed individuals working independently. Small, nimble engineering teams generate collective empathy and comradery, thus increasing their ability to anticipate unforeseen development scope changes and maintain high quality deliverables. Across our US Studio system or within client development sites, our Digital Engineering teams ideate and develop innovative cloud-based solutions following a Lean-Agile process with DevOps culture. Working in Cognizant Digital Engineering provides DevOps engineers consistent opportunities to push digital boundaries while growing their exposure to transformational technologies.

The Role:

Cognizant is looking for an experienced and innovative .NET/Azure Architect to serve our diverse base of global clients. As a member of our team, you will build cutting edge, cloud-based software that powers modern business. An ideal candidate is someone who enjoys working in a diverse, collaborative, geographically distributed team. Similarly, the ideal candidate is an expert engineer who values the "team", drives continuous improvement and is unafraid to challenge the legacy status quo with creative cloud-based solutions.

Location: Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• The Azure Architect shall specialize in computing workload design
• Primary focus will be on creating robust and efficient solutions for compute-intensive workloads within the Azure cloud environment involving architecture design, resource allocation, high-performance computing, serverless and event-driven architecture, security and compliance, monitoring, and troubleshooting. designing micro front-end patterns, ensuring seamless integration across components and services
• Technical architect will be leveraging React and related libraries (e.g., Redux, Flux, Webpack) for efficient UI development. Prior experience working as a solution architect involving Azure cloud is a must.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand workload requirements, performance expectations, and scalability needs
• Design compute architectures that optimize resource utilization, minimize latency, and enhance overall system performance
• Consider factors such as virtual machines (VMs), containers, serverless computing, and batch processing
• Determine the appropriate compute resources (VM sizes, instance types, etc.) based on workload characteristics. Balance cost-effectiveness with performance requirements.
• Implement auto-scaling strategies to handle varying workloads
• Be capable of designing for High availability and fault tolerance. Optimize parallel processing, GPU utilization, and distributed computing
• Ensure efficient data movement and synchronization. Be capable of designed transactional compute patterns with compensation patterns Explore serverless computing options (Azure Functions, Logic Apps, etc.) for event-driven workloads
• Design event-driven workflows that respond dynamically to triggers
• Leverage Azure Event Grid and Azure Event Hubs
• Integrate security best practices into compute designs. Implement access controls, encryption, and network segmentation. Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations. Define monitoring metrics for compute resources. Set up alerts, logging, and diagnostics
• Troubleshoot performance bottlenecks and optimize resource utilization
• Design compute workloads utilizing networking components and micro segmentation Familiarity with IAM, Azure Policy and Private Link configuration Provide a long-term vision for the platform, considering changes in technology within the context of ITS current implementation and our feature roadmap.
• In-depth understanding of the business environment, its processes and complexities of the organization and apply the knowledge towards the proposed work program.
• Design and validate solutions that are practical, flexible, resilient, scalable, reusable, and strategic. Promote component-based development, emphasizing reusability and consistency. Recognize and identify potential areas where existing policies and procedures require change, or where new ones need to be developed, especially regarding future business expansion
• Present, discuss, and walk through the merits of the solutions recommendations with a group of enterprise architects. Institute and lead the adoption of best practices and standards, to improve the quality of the deliverables. Ensure best practices are adhered to in the adoption of new technologies
• Architect solutions across multiple IT environments and Business system components, envision solution for projects / programs / applications. Research, evaluate, and select from existing and emerging technologies the options best fitting business and IT strategic needs. Work closely with development teams, bridging the gap between design and implementation. Facilitate knowledge sharing and continuous learning
• Interact with other Enterprise Architecture and Enterprise Platform teams to ensure that solutions are built in adherence with the defined enterprise standards.
• Manage daily technical challenges and communicate with management if there are any risks or issues. Well-versed in the latest technologies and tools being used to improve IT development and delivery. Coordinate effort within different IT groups like Enterprise Architecture, Office of Information Security, Data Management Office as and when needed.
• Understanding of security best practices and standards. Work with stakeholders to offer contextualized technology strategies, solutions and roadmaps which are aligned to their business needs.
• Document key artifacts related to WBG application environments, integration platforms, data flows, application inventories, entity-relationships, and process workflows. Help build supporting frameworks for on-premises, mobile, cloud-native and hybrid solution architecture approaches and implementations aligned with specific business application requirements and constraints.
• Identify the area in the architecture and design that are contributing towards technical Debt and provide recommendations to remediate same

Required Skill:

* 12+ years of experience in architecting/designing compute-intensive solutions with Azure.

* Preferable certification: Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert Proven track record of developing Azure architecture for large-scale, production-grade applications In-depth knowledge of .Net frameworks & Azure compute services (VMs, Azure Web-Apps, App Services, Logic Apps Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Batch, etc.).

* Good to have frontend skills like Angular 2-18 & React JS

Applications will be accepted until 03/13/2025.

The annual salary for this position is between $138,500- $162,500 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.

Benefits: 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