# Java Full Stack Developer (Senior/Lead)

About the role As a Java Full Stack Developer (Senior/Lead), you will make an impact by designing, building, and scaling API-first, cloud-native applications and integrations using modern Java, AWS, React, and AI-assisted technologies. You will work collaboratively with product, design, data, architecture, and risk and control stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable, and reliable technology solutions. In this role, you will: Design, build, and scale cloud-native, API-first applications using Java, Spring Boot, microservices, REST APIs, and event-driven architecture. Develop end-to-end capabilities across the technology stack using React, TypeScript/JavaScript, and Node.js on the front end and Java/Spring Boot on the back end. Build and operate scalable solutions on AWS using technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, ECS/EKS, serverless computing, Kafka, SNS, and SQS. Integrate AI capabilities using technologies and approaches such as agentic AI, LLMs/SLMs, MCP, RAG, agent orchestration frameworks, and AI-assisted automation. Establish strong engineering practices across CI/CD, automated and performance testing, infrastructure as code, observability, security, and application perfor

- **Id**: 3896799
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cognizant-java-full-stack-developer-seniorlead>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Plano, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T17:07:48Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T08:04:41Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4243
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Life insurance, Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: IT Consulting & Digital Transformation, IT Outsourcing & Dedicated Teams, Engineering Services, Cloud Consulting & Migration

## Company

- **Id**: 85
- **Name**: Cognizant
- **Domain**: cognizant.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/cognizant>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: services
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Cognizant Careers

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 87
- **Open postings**: 188
- **Ghost share**: 0.011
- **Stale share**: 0.463
- **Repost share**: 0.074
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 23
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Amazon Aurora** — Optional: no
- **Amazon CloudWatch** — Optional: no
- **Amazon DocumentDB** — Optional: no
- **Amazon ECS** — Optional: no
- **Amazon EKS** — Optional: no
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Claude** — Optional: no
- **CloudFormation** — Optional: no
- **Copilot** — Optional: no
- **Datadog** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **DynamoDB** — Optional: no
- **Dynatrace** — Optional: no
- **Grafana** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: no
- **MySQL** — Optional: no
- **Node JS** — Optional: no
- **OpenTelemetry** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Prompt Engineering** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **React.js** — Optional: no
- **Redis** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **Rest-Assured** — Optional: no
- **Splunk** — Optional: no
- **Spring Boot** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **WebSockets** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T23:22:44Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 8,264; Filings 12m: 8264

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 23
- **Reasons**: conf:1, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

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