Responsibilities:
· Lead the development and implementation of creative, high-quality requirement roadmaps based on Modernization strategy and vision.
· Assume end-to-end responsibility for the strategic value, usability, and performance of our solutions.
· Influence key customers in design and planning decision
· Manage prioritization and trade-offs among experience, scope, and time to market.
· Work closely with frontend/backend engineering teams, design, and stakeholders in an agile environment to deliver solutions to market.
· Proactively identify and resolve strategic issues to help the team meet business, financial, and technical goals
· Manage backlog planning and development through day-to-day collaboration and decision making with a cross-functional team including engineers, designers and business or subject matter representatives.
· Develop detailed, streamlined user stories with acceptance criteria based on customer needs/experience and business requirements that can be used to create product specifications and architecture.
· Work with UX Research to design usability and research studies to inform product requirements and influence product design and experience.
· Own and handle the backlog; continuously orders and prioritizes to ensure that 1-2 sprints/iterations of backlog are always ready.
· Define and analyzes metrics that measure and benchmark solution success.
· Drive product launches including working with business stakeholders, engineers, and other cross functional teams across the enterprise.
· Play active role in optimization and process improvements, for teams to easily understand, build, and maintain best in class software systems.
· Provide leadership, technology guidance and mentors others throughout their domain.
· Demonstrate superior product and industry knowledge.
Required qualifications:
· Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or a closely related discipline, or an equivalent combination of formal education and experience. Understanding of distributed systems, cloud computing, and microservices architectures
· 5+ years of experience working as Technical Lead/Design lead/ Solution lead/Technical Product Manager
· The candidate will have a strong work ethic, be a self-starter, and be able to be highly productive in a dynamic, collaborative environment.
· Strong business process acumen with experience in supporting business stakeholders.
· Business-level communication is a must.
· Facilitates dialogues that produce new perspectives and trigger recommendations for substantial innovative/enhancement, and analysis of consequences.
· Skilled in negotiation to align stakeholders and communicate a single synthesized perspective to the scrum team.
· Database knowledge – SQL, NoSQL, table structure, data relationships
Behavioral Competencies
· Effective Communication: Clearly articulate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
· Leadership: Mak informed decisions promptly, balancing risks and benefits. Take responsibility for the success and failures, leading by example.
· Collaboration: Foster a collaborative environment where team members can contribute effectively. Mediate conflicts and find mutually agreeable solutions.
· Problem- Solving: Demonstrate analytical thinking, resourcefulness and think outside the box to find innovative solutions to challenging problems.
· Adaptability: Quickly adjust to changing priorities, technologies, and market conditions. Stay calm and focused under pressure, maintaining productivity during crises.
· Customer focus: Prioritize customer feedback to enhance user satisfaction.
· Strategic Thinking: Stay informed about market trends, emerging technologies and set and pursue strategic goals that drive growth and solution success.
· Negotiation skills: Build relationships and influence others to achieve program goals.
Applications will be accepted until 09/03/2024
The annual salary for this position is between $81,337 to $141,500 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.