Lead Software Engineer – Cognizant – Chennai

Responsibility:

Establishing a strong community of engineers:

• Clearly explain the community career lattice to team members to build understanding.
• Demonstrate appreciation for diversity and inclusion during professional interactions.
• Note any observable deviations from diversity and inclusion principles.
• Recommend new talent for hiring when opportunities arise.
• Promote the community brand image through professional interactions.
• Report any deviations from people practices that conflict with organizational values.
• Conduct people management processes fairly, transparently, and diligently.

Delivering superior engineering outcomes:

• Understand how your own competencies and proficiencies align with your role’s responsibilities.
• Ask for performance feedback and use it to identify gaps between your proficiencies and what your role requires.
• Notify your manager of any concerns regarding your ability to fulfill your role’s responsibilities.
• Help team members articulate project goals, provide guidance and supervision to complete assigned tasks.
• Actively respond to requests for help and assistance.
• Proactively engage with team members to understand their challenges and direct them to helpful resources within the community.
• When taking on engineering responsibilities, make realistic commitments that you can fulfill.
• Identify any dependencies, risks, and bottlenecks that could affect meeting your commitments.
• Understand the relevant metrics for benchmarking different activities, how those metrics impact customer business outcomes, and how they are tracked in Cognizant’s systems.

Fostering strong competency:

• Clearly understand the enablement goals and be able to explain them to team members.
• Identify the enablement needs of the team.
• Set up strategies and processes for driving the identification and closure of competency gaps at a community level.
• Drive best practices for eliciting competency proficiency gaps.

Operating efficiently:

• Keep the skill profile and resume up to date.
• Manage a panel of interviewers from your team, ensuring nominations are evenly distributed and respect individual availability.
• Prepare a knowledge base to provide engagement-related onboarding for new engineering hires.
• Resolve any conflicts transparently and fairly during performance reviews.
• Coach your teams to update skill profiles promptly, informing managers of newly acquired skills and proficiencies.
• Contribute to the talent profiling framework and benchmarks for various roles and responsibilities.
• Discuss competency gaps with associates and necessary steps to address those gaps.

Building Engineering Mindshare:

• Identify opportunities to create reusable content assets.
• Help develop reusable content assets such as templates, frameworks, and guidelines.
• Contribute to white papers under guidance, conducting research and drafting sections.
• Contribute to experience papers under guidance, outlining customer stories and journeys.
• Contribute to case studies under guidance, highlighting solutions and results for clients.

Must Have Skills

• Spring Boot

• Microservices

• Java

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