.NET Tech Lead

Cognizant

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Hybrid

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Parsippany, NJ
Salary
$81,337–$141,500 / yr
Posted
16 days ago
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This role pays less than 98% of similar roles. Most pay $163,500–$201,600 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $111k versus about $183k for comparable roles.

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About Cognizant

Cognizant is a multinational IT services and consulting company offering digital transformation, technology, and business process services. It serves clients across financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and other industries worldwide.

Cognizant currently has 330 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $100,000–$135,000 across 211 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · .NET Tech Lead

The .NET Tech Lead (Google Cloud Platform) provides hands-on technical leadership for the end-to-end delivery of a large-scale platform. This role involves leading distributed development and QA teams to build and maintain .NET/C# applications, APIs, and microservices within a Google Cloud Platform environment. Key responsibilities include translating business requirements into scalable technical solutions, managing frontend and backend development, and overseeing database, integration, and DevOps work. The candidate must utilize technologies including Angular, React, TypeScript, SQL Server, Oracle, or PostgreSQL. Core competencies involve driving Agile delivery, supporting CI/CD, automated testing, and Kubernetes-based deployments. The role focuses on application modernization and redesign initiatives, ensuring high performance, scalability, and engineering quality across complex enterprise-scale systems while mentoring engineers and promoting best practices.

What you'll do

  • Lead the end-to-end technical delivery of a large-scale platform across frontend, backend, and cloud domains.
  • Provide hands-on technical leadership for .NET/C# applications, APIs, and microservices on Google Cloud Platform.
  • Translate business and product requirements into scalable technical solutions aligned with engineering best practices.
  • Mentor distributed development and QA teams while resolving technical delivery challenges.
  • Drive Agile delivery by supporting CI/CD, automated testing, and Kubernetes-based deployments.
  • Optimize application performance, scalability, and database efficiency for enterprise-scale systems.
  • Establish and promote engineering and quality best practices across globally distributed teams.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of hands-on experience with .NET/C# application development, including backend services, REST APIs, and microservices.
  • Demonstrated experience delivering or supporting .NET applications in a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environment.
  • Experience with modern web technologies like Angular, React, or TypeScript and databases like SQL Server, Oracle, or PostgreSQL.
  • Experience with CI/CD, Kubernetes, automated testing, integration, and modern DevOps/quality engineering practices.
  • Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills with experience leading distributed onshore/offshore teams in an Agile environment.
  • Experience leading end-to-end technical delivery of complex, enterprise-scale application modernization or redesign initiatives (preferred).
  • Strong understanding of cloud-native application architecture and microservices within GCP (preferred).

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