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Tech Lead – Mainframe Engineer

Cognizant’s Digital Engineering practice is seeking a highly qualified Tech Lead – Mainframe Engineer with min 10+ years’ experience developing and building high-performing, scalable, enterprise applications. You will be part of a digital software team that works on high-demand applications. Our engineers 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 engineers are agile and retrospective, and not afraid to identify what we’re doing wrong, so we can fix it, and what we’re doing right, so we can improve on it. Above all, we judge success by the success of our team and the happiness of our customers.

**Cognizant Digital Engineering** If you’re like us, you’ve got big ideas. At Cognizant, we’re exploring new ideas every day. We help industry leading companies reinvent their business models and innovate products that create new value—by connecting people with things, insights, and experiences. Cognizant digital engineering designs, engineers and delivers digital products and experiences that drive digital-first business models. We offer the most comprehensive digital engineering expertise and client-centric methodology for sustainable innovation.

You must be legally authorized to work in the USA without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.

Roles/Responsibilities:

• Application design and development activities

• Hands-on development experience.

• Analyze and evaluate technical aspects of projects, enhancements, fixes, and infrastructure changes to determine impact on interfacing systems.

• Support UAT testing including assisting with lower environment setup between application and downstream systems. Help resolve technical issues and where necessary, log defects on Vendor ticketing system.

Required Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent practical experience

• 7+ years of relevant experience and readiness to manage a sizeable group or team of IT professionals responsible for development/solutions design and/or system enhancements, new releases, or project deliverables with increasing complexity of moderate to broad scope.

• Proven success in problem solving and producing strategies and plans for operational improvement.

• Expert knowledge of the business, technology standards, managing people and projects.

• 5-7+ years of experience programming with **COBOL, IMS, JCL, TSO, MVS.**

• Experience with MQ and Kafka is needed.

• Practical experience designing and developing web-services using modern practices/techniques including Domain-Driven Design, Event Storming, Event Sourcing and CQRS.

• Experience with development tools and frameworks such as Endevor, CA-7, Maven, Jenkins, Gradle, Git, and Nexus.

• Database experience using DB2, IMS, SQL Server, and Oracle.

• A passion for simplifying and automating work, for making things better, for being efficient and helping others.

• Knowledge of SSO, MFA, PingFed, OIDC, OAuth.

• Able to keep up to date with emerging technology industry standards.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills as well as the ability to establish a good rapport with stakeholders at various levels.

• Excellent collaboration skills as well as the ability to work efficiently under minimum supervision.

• Demonstrated ability to follow up on issues independently and ensure they are resolved promptly, escalating when necessary.

• Self-starter, detailed-oriented and organized with strong time-management skills and the ability to multi-task effectively within a fast-paced environment.

Nice To Have:

• Cloud Platform experience (GCP/Azure/AWS).

• Experience with Java, React.js, React-Native, Redux, Angular.

• Volante Product knowledge.

• GitHub Workflows/Actions.

• Payment's knowledge for SWIFT, LYNX.

**Salary and Other Compensation** :

The annual salary for this position is between $ 65,447– $ 117,000 USD 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

**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.

Why Choose Cognizant?

It takes a lot to succeed in today’s fast-paced market, and Cognizant Technology Solutions has become a leader in the industry. We love big ideas and even bigger dreams! We stand out because we put human experiences at the core. 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 skillsets fresh and have opportunities to acquire certifications on the newest technologies.

Everything we do at Cognizant we do with passion—for our clients (fortune 100 companies), our communities, and our organization. It’s the defining attribute that we look for in our people.

If you love ambiguity, excited by change, and excel through autonomy, we’d love to hear from you!

About Cognizant Digital Engineering

Well-designed software transcends digital technology, going beyond the fulfillment of basic requirements to focus instead on human needs. Within Cognizant Digital Engineering, we help clients develop software products that transform human insights into tangible, production-ready digital solutions. We also work with our clients to scale their native cloud applications. Using insights from the lived experiences of our consumers, we seamlessly replace traditional service strategies with engaging, precise, and direct digital applications. Designing phenomenal software is vital to success in the digital economy—and we understand that a human-centric approach is key to this design.

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Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.