Sr. Full Stack Java & Azure Engineer

As a Senior Full Stack Java & Azure Engineer, you will make an impact by designing and delivering secure, scalable, and maintainable cloud-native applications. You will work collaboratively with product, architecture, security, quality engineering, Dev Ops, and operations teams to build modern applications and establish strong engineering practices.

• Design, develop, test, and support secure, reliable, and maintainable software aligned with approved architecture and engineering standards.

• Develop Java/Spring Boot APIs, modern web and PWA capabilities, Azure integrations, data-access components, and containerized workloads.

• Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines, automated testing and quality controls, security checks, branch protections, and repeatable deployment processes.

• Apply security-by-design practices across authentication, authorization, secrets management, sensitive data, dependencies, logging, and least-privilege access.

• Mentor engineers, provide actionable code-review feedback, and establish reusable engineering patterns and development standards.

• Proactively identify technical risks and delivery roadblocks and collaborate with stakeholders to drive resolution.

We strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role’s business requirements, this is a remote position open to qualified applicants in the United States. 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.

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with strong full-stack development experience across modern web applications, APIs, data stores, and distributed systems.

• Strong hands-on experience with Java, Spring Boot, API development, and cloud-native application design.

• Experience designing secure, maintainable, and testable software using object-oriented principles, design patterns, and API-first approaches.

• Experience building cloud-native, containerized, and event-driven solutions, including asynchronous integrations.

• Strong Dev Sec Ops  experience across CI/CD, automated testing, code quality, dependency and security scanning, source control, and deployment controls.

• Experience with Microsoft Azure, infrastructure as code, cloud configuration, secrets management, and environment promotion strategies.

• Strong troubleshooting and observability skills across applications, integrations, data, pipelines, and cloud platforms.

• Ability to provide technical guidance, conduct code reviews, mentor engineers, and collaborate effectively across product, architecture, security, QE, Dev Ops, and operations teams.

• Advanced experience building and supporting Java/Spring Boot applications on Microsoft Azure.

• Experience designing and operating containerized and event-driven applications in complex enterprise environments.

• Strong knowledge of secure software development and Dev Sec Ops  engineering practices.

• Experience establishing reusable engineering patterns, standards, automated controls, and deployment practices.

• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across cross-functional teams.

Applicants will be accepted till 9/20/2026

Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in the United States…