Microservices Technical Lead

Microservices Technical Lead

As a Technical Lead, you will play a critical role in leading the design, development, and delivery of enterprise microservices solutions. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements, define technical approaches, and drive the successful implementation of scalable, high-quality applications. This role requires strong technical leadership, hands‑on development expertise, and the ability to guide distributed teams through complex initiatives.

• Participate in requirements gathering discussions with client and project stakeholders.
• Design, develop, and maintain microservices-based applications using modern development frameworks and best practices.
• Lead and mentor developers, providing guidance on coding standards, design patterns, and defect resolution.
• Track development milestones and provide regular status updates to project stakeholders and leadership teams.
• Present architectural designs and technical solutions during governance and design review meetings.
• Coordinate activities across onsite and offshore teams, facilitate scrum ceremonies, and communicate project status to senior management.
• Identify project risks, issues, and dependencies, and proactively drive resolution through established escalation processes.
• Develop RESTful services using Spring Boot and microservices architecture principles.
• Implement business logic and integration solutions using Apache Camel.
• Apply Microservice Design Patterns and Business Delegate Patterns to create scalable and maintainable applications.
• Develop and maintain DTO, DAO, Service, Controller, and Utility layers following enterprise coding standards.
• Create and execute JUnit test cases to support application quality and automated testing efforts.
• Maintain Maven dependencies and version consistency across services.
• Implement non-blocking I/O programming techniques to optimize application performance.
• Configure application logging using Fluentd and implement monitoring and transaction tracking capabilities using Sleuth.
• Design and implement API error handling, exception management, and resiliency best practices.

We believe hybrid work is the way forward as we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role’s business requirements, this is a hybrid position requiring 3 days a week in a client or Cognizant office in Buffalo Grove, IL or Richardson, TX. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work‑life balance through our various wellbeing programs.

The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. This may change based on the project you’re engaged in, as well as business and client requirements. Rest assured, we will always be clear about role expectations.

• At least 7 years of experience leading projects as a Technical Lead within Middleware and/or J2EE environments.
• At least 2 years of hands‑on experience leading development projects utilizing Microservices Architecture.

• Spring Boot
• OpenJDK
• Apache Camel
• Kubernetes
• MongoDB
• Open Shift Container Platform
• Spring Tool Suite (STS)
• Git Hub
• Experience designing and implementing REST APIs and microservices‑based solutions.
• Strong understanding of enterprise integration patterns and distributed systems architecture.
• Experience working within onsite/offshore delivery models.
• Proven ability to coordinate activities across multiple teams and stakeholders.
• Excellent communication, organization, problem‑solving, and leadership skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver results with minimal supervision.

• Experience with Agile development…