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≈ $17k – $40k per year (Estimated)
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Staff · 7+ years exp
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Full-Time

Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 11, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 16, 2026. Cognizant scores B on the Alion truth index.

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Cognizant is an American information technology services and consulting company founded in 1994 as an in-house technology unit of Dun and Bradstreet in Chennai, India, and headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey. It builds, integrates and operates software and infrastructure for large enterprises, with particularly deep positions in healthcare, financial services, insurance and life sciences, delivered by a global workforce of more than three hundred thousand people concentrated in India. Listed on Nasdaq, the company competes with the large Indian and global systems integrators and has reoriented its offerings around cloud migration, data platforms and AI-assisted engineering.

The Role: Lead Software Engineer (Java, Bigdata + Vulnerability Remediation)

Job Location: Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Pune

Experience: Minimum 6+ years

Must have skills: Java, J2EE, SQL, PL/SQL, Python, Scala, Spark, AWS, Vulnerability Remediation

The Team: You will be part of global technology team comprising of Dev, QA and BA teams and will be responsible for analysis, design, development, and testing

The Impact: You will be working on core technology platforms responsible for supporting the operations carried out under Equity Value Stream.

What’s in it for you: You will have the opportunity to work on the enhancements to the existing index calculation systems.

Responsibilities:

· Engineer a development process for the platforms of the Equity value stream, to identify, fix and test the vulnerabilities across code, libraries, etc.

· Use available AI tools to expediate the remediation of the vulnerabilities identified and deliver the fix within the defined SLA.

· Participate in multiple software development processes including Coding, Testing, De-bugging & Documentation.

· Perform Application & System Performance tuning and troubleshoot performance issues.

· Build applications with object-oriented concepts and apply design patterns.

· Integrate in-house applications with various vendor software platforms.

· Setup development environment / sandbox for application development.

· Check-in application code changes into the source repository.

· Perform unit testing of application code and fix errors.

· Interface with databases to extract information and build reports.

· Effectively interact with customers, business users and IT staff.

What We’re Looking For:

Basic Qualifications:

· Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or Engineering is required, or in lieu, a demonstrated equivalence in work experience.

· 7 to 10 years of IT experience in application development and support.

· Strong Experience with Use of AI tools, Java and J2EE.

· Minimum 1-2 years of experience in minimum one of following.

o Advanced SQL, PL/SQL programming

o Advanced Python

o Advanced Scala

· Big data / Cloud skills (minimum 1 of following)

o Spark using SCALA / Python/java and HDFS

o Good understanding of AWS cloud (EC2, EMR, Lambda, S3, Glue, etc.)

· Infrastructure/CICD related skills (minimum 1 of following)

o Basic networking knowledge / Unix scripting

o Ansible/Jenkins

o Exposure to addressing Vulnerabilities

· Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are essential, with strong verbal and writing proficiencies.

Preferred Qualifications:

· Experience working with large datasets in Equity, Commodities, Forex, Futures and Options asset classes.

· Experience with Index/Benchmarks or Asset Management or Trading platforms.

· Basic Knowledge of User Interface design & development using jQuery, HTML5 & CSS.

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