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They will also be able to collaborate with other team members, including other engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to deliver high-quality software on time.\nThe Architect is expected to participate in sales workshops, assess client requirements and discuss technical feasibility, participate in knowledge sharing sessions.\nKey Responsibilities:\nParticipating in agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, stand-up meetings, and retrospectives.\nWorking with product owners, business analysts and clients to translate business requirements into architecture, technical designs and delivery plans.\nLeading the design and hands-on development of back-end services using Java (Spring Boot), Node.js (NestJS/Express) or .NET (ASP.NET Core), together with the relevant ORM and data-access frameworks.\nGuiding front-end architecture (including micro frontends) and contributing to development using React, Angular or Vue, together with TypeScript, HTML and CSS.\nDesigning API contracts and integration patterns (REST, event-driven messaging) between services and external systems.\nDefining and promoting software development best practices - clean code, SOLID principles, automated testing, secure coding, CI/CD and documentation - to ensure code quality and maintainability.\nDriving the adoption of AI-assisted development tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code) across the team and defining guidelines for their safe and effective use.\nLeading code and design reviews, and mentoring engineers to raise the team's technical capability.\nTroubleshooting and debugging issues.Continuously improving the software development process and practices.\nPresenting architecture options, trade-offs and risks to stakeholders and team members to ensure project goals are met.\nKeeping up to date with the latest technologies and industry trends, evaluating them through proofs of concept, and sharing knowledge across teams.\nJob Requirements\nEssential Skills:\nStrong hands-on development skills in at least one back-end stack - Java, Node.js (TypeScript) or .NET - and strong skills in a modern front-end framework (React, Angular or Vue); solid experience with microservices, cloud platforms (Azure, AWS or GCP), message brokers and ORMs.\nStrong written and verbal skills for discussing requirements with business stakeholders, PMs, designers, engineering.\nAbility to make and argue technical decisions on security, performance and manageability\nSignificant experience in technical design and implementation of successful software products\nAbility to define application structure, behaviour, interaction, non-functional properties\nAbility to analyse impact and risks for business and subsequent architectural decisions\nCode and process reviews, adherence to best practices\nHands-on experience using AI-assisted development tools in daily work, with a critical understanding of their strengths, limitations and risks (e.g. code quality, security, IP)\nNice to Have Skills:\nExperience in pre-sales activities, including RFP/RFI responses, technical solution proposals and effort estimation.\nExperience in client consulting: running discovery and solution workshops, assessing business needs and advising on technology choices.\nAbility to present technical solutions convincingly to both technical and non-technical audiences, including senior client stakeholders.\nExperience designing and integrating GenAI/LLM-based solutions (e.g. RAG, AI agents, Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock), including evaluation, cost and responsible-AI considerations.\nWhat we offer:\nOpportunity to be part of a global organization.\nEncouraging working atmosphere, engaging activities, and extra benefits (e.g. additional medical insurance (covers gym subscription), team events, outreach activities, and others);\nHybrid work model with remote work opportunities ( 3/5 days weekly from the office)\nOpen, modern, and ergonomic work environment when working from the office with the multicultural community.\nOpportunity to grow professionally and personally (e.g. Udemy) and continuously develop within the domain.\nThe salary range for this position is from 6000 to 7300 EURO gross before taxes.**Salary offer for the candidate is determined based on the predefined salary ranges for the position and depends on the level of competence and experience of the candidate.\n\nCognizant, as a digital company, makes employee health and safety its top priority. With that in mind, we are implementing virtual hiring and work practices which means all interviews will be conducted online as well as live from the office\nWe will be looking forward to Your CV.\nOnly suitable candidates will be contacted within 7 days from application.\nStay up to date with our website https://www.cognizant.com/lt/en\nWe are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. 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