.NET Azure Architect

.NET Azure Architect

Cognizant Digital Practice helps clients reinvent products, experiences, and business models to build new value, differentiation, and drive revenue in the digital economy. We take an Experience centered approach which uses human insights to take ideas from vision to outcome and building end to end experience led solutions that enables brands to transform their customer and employee experiences using design, marketing, and commerce capabilities.

Location: Washington - DC

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

*Candidate is required to be in the office 2 to 3 days a week*

Roles & responsibilities

• Collaborate with customers to understand workload requirements, performance expectations, and scalability needs.
• Design compute architectures that optimize resource utilization, minimize latency, and enhance overall system performance.
• 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 standard processes into compute designs.
• Implement access controls, encryption, and network segmentation.
• Work closely with development teams, bridging the gap between design and implementation.
• Interact with other Enterprise Architecture and Enterprise Platform teams to ensure that solutions are built in alignment with the defined enterprise standards.
• Manage daily technical challenges and connect with management if there are any risks or issues.

Qualifications

• About 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

Salary and Other Compensation:

Applications will be accepted until February 15, 2025

The annual salary for this position is between $102,600 to $187,500 depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

This position is also eligible for Cognizant's discretionary annual incentive program and stock awards, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant's applicable plans.

Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position along with the base salary, 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 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.

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.

About Cognizant

Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) engineers' modern businesses. We help our clients modernize technology, reimagine processes and transform experiences so they can stay ahead in our fast-changing world. Together, we're improving everyday life. See how at www.cognizant.com or @cognizant.

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