Description
Lead Engineer – LAMP
Cognizant Digital Engineering practice is looking to hire a motivated and energetic Lead Engineer who’s passionate about software modernization, with sound experience in LAMP tech stack w ith deep understanding of engineering fundamentals. Someone who loves to solve problems and are comfortable jumping across tech stacks both legacy and modern.
Cognizant Digital Practice helps clients reinvent products, experiences, and business models to create 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
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. Cognizant will not sponsor H-1B or other U.S. work authorization for this role.
Location : NYC – Remote allowed
The annual salary for this position is between $ 109K- $164K 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.
Day-to-Day Responsibilities:
- Responsible for overseeing a development team of engineers for one of our North America’s client Maintenance team.
- Work across our branded e-commerce websites, with a focus on creating beautiful front-end experiences and a best-in-class user experience
- Work closely with product teams and brand creative teams to translate designs into websites that maintain the brand’s unique identity. Define best practices & solutions to improve the design QA process and communicate web UX best practices to brand creative teams.
- Work closely with product owners to define scalable technical solutions & partner with global engineers to contribute what you build into our global technology products
- Troubleshoot & problem solve when urgent technical solutions are needed
- Improve code quality by providing peer code review feedback to other engineers
Key Qualifications:
- Having 8+ years web development experience, with expertise in the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP or Perl)
- Should have deep understanding of engineering fundamentals, love to solve problems, and are comfortable jumping across tech stacks both legacy and modern
- Good to have 5+ years of experience leading a development team, mentoring other engineers & working with the business to define & drive solutions and comfortable in JavaScript (jQuery) and CSS/SASS.
- You have solution design experience, with demonstrable success in large scale projects
- Should be passionate about writing clean, modern, maintainable, & highly-performant code
- Pro-active and a self-starter attitude to troubleshoot and solve problems
- To be positive, collaborative, and solution-oriented approach
- Working experience in an Agile team and using Jira
- To have strong communication skills with excellent interpersonal effectiveness, in one-on-one interactions and presenting to a room
- To have self-awareness and a desire to continually improve
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 obtain certifications on the latest technologies.
If you’re comfortable with ambiguity, excited by change, and excel through autonomy, we’d love to hear from you!
About Cognizant
Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer provider and committed to creating a diverse environment. Headquartered in the U.S, Cognizant is a member of the S&P-500, Nasdaq-100, Fortune 200, and recently ranked as the #1 Fastest Growing “All Star” by Fortune Magazine. Cognizant demonstrates a highly flexible business model, a detailed global delivery network, and deep domain expertise to deliver to a long list of outstanding companies that are leaders in their own space.
Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com or follow us @Cognizant.
Apply today!
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Qualifications
Technical Skills
SNo Primary Skill Proficiency Level * Rqrd./Dsrd. 1 OpenStack PL4 Required 2 JQuery PL4 Required 3 Agile PLM PL4 Desired 4 Drupal PL4 Desired 5 JavaScript PL4 Required 6 CSS PL4 Required 7 MySQL PL4 Desired 8 Perl PL4 Desired 9 Apache Jmeter PL4 Required 10 Linux PL4 Desired 11 PHP PL4 Desired
* Proficiency Legends
Proficiency Level Generic Reference PL1 The associate has basic awareness and comprehension of the skill and is in the process of acquiring this skill through various channels. PL2 The associate possesses working knowledge of the skill, and can actively and independently apply this skill in engagements and projects. PL3 The associate has comprehensive, in-depth and specialized knowledge of the skill. She / he has extensively demonstrated successful application of the skill in engagements or projects. PL4 The associate can function as a subject matter expert for this skill. The associate is capable of analyzing, evaluating and synthesizing solutions using the skill.