.NET / AZURE FSE ARCHITECT
Hays

The final salary or hourly wage, as applicable, paid to each candidate/applicant for this position is ultimately dependent on a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, the candidate's/applicant's qualifications, skills, and level of experience as well as the geographical location of the position.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Visa sponsorship not available.

Cognizant is seeking a .NET / AZURE FSE ARCHITECT in Tampa, FL .

Role Description

Contracting at Cognizant will see you working with the world's leading companies to improve everyday life. Unlike many IT gigs, Cognizant's unique consultative approach will see you help clients envision, build and run more innovative and efficient businesses with the latest tech, not just deliver a standard project.

Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant serves 177 of the Fortune 500, and has enjoyed consecutive years of growth, so you'll never be short of finding your next gig with them. Plus you'll enjoy many of the perks you'd expect from one of the most admired companies in the world.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand workload requirements, performance expectations, and scalability needs.
• Design compute architectures that optimize resource utilization, minimize latency, and enhance overall system performance.
• Consider factors such as virtual machines (VMs), containers, serverless computing, and batch processing.
• Determine the appropriate compute resources (VM sizes, instance types, etc.) based on workload characteristics.
• Balance cost-effectiveness with performance requirements.
• Implement auto-scaling strategies to handle varying workloads.
• 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 best practices into compute designs.
• Implement access controls, encryption, and network segmentation.
• Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations.
• Define monitoring metrics for compute resources.
• Set up alerts, logging, and diagnostics.
• Troubleshoot performance bottlenecks and optimize resource utilization.
• Design compute workloads utilizing networking components and micro segmentation
• Familiarity with IAM, Azure Policy and Private Link configuration
• Provide a long-term vision for the platform, considering changes in technology within the context of ITS current implementation and our feature roadmap.
• In-depth understanding of the business environment, its processes and complexities of the organization and apply the knowledge towards the proposed work program.
• Design and validate solutions that are practical, flexible, resilient, scalable, reusable, and strategic.
• Promote component-based development, emphasizing reusability and consistency.
• Recognize and identify potential areas where existing policies and procedures require change, or where new ones need to be developed, especially regarding future business expansion.
• Present, discuss, and walk through the merits of the solutions recommendations with a group of enterprise architects.
• Institute and lead the adoption of best practices and standards, to improve the quality of the deliverables.
• Ensure best practices are adhered to in the adoption of new technologies.
• Architect solutions across multiple IT environments and Business system components, envision solution for projects / programs / applications.
• Research, evaluate, and select from existing and emerging technologies the options best fitting business and IT strategic needs.
• Work closely with development teams, bridging the gap between design and implementation.
• Facilitate knowledge sharing and continuous learning.
• Interact with other Enterprise Architecture and Enterprise Platform teams to ensure that solutions are built in adherence with the defined enterprise standards.
• Manage daily technical challenges and communicate with management if there are any risks or issues.

Skills & Requirements

• About 15+ 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
• Familiarity with orchestration tools (Azure Resource Manager, Terraform, etc.).
• Understanding of hybrid cloud scenarios
• Ability to deliver functionality incrementally adopting agile practices
• Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git)
• Experience with IT projects in the Financial Industry
• Experience with IT projects utilizing multiple technologies and frameworks, particularly agile/hybrid agile.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication and collaboration abilities.
• Staying informed about emerging front-end technologies and trends.

Benefits/Other Compensation

This position is a contract/temporary role where Hays offers you the opportunity to enroll in full medical benefits, dental benefits, vision benefits, 401K and Life Insurance ($20,000 benefit).

Why Hays?

As Cognizant's chosen recruitment partner we have this role exclusively, so you will work with a professional recruiter who has intimate knowledge of Cognizant, the role, the Information Technology industry and market trends. Your Hays recruiter will lead you through a thorough screening process to understand your skills, experience, needs, and drivers and so can keep you in mind when future gigs like this come up with Cognizant. You will also get support on resume writing, interview tips, and career planning, so when there's a position you really want, you're fully prepared to get it.

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