Cognizant
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cognizant.com
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LEADING AT COGNIZANT
This is an
AVP level role at Cognizant. We believe how you lead is as important as what you deliver. Cognizant leaders at every level:
Drive our business strategy and inspire teams around our future.
Live the leadership behaviors, leading themselves, others and the business.
Uphold our Values, role modeling them in every action and decision.
Nurture our people and culture, creating a workplace where all can thrive.
At Cognizant, leadership transcends titles and is embodied in actions and behaviors. We empower our leaders at every level to drive business strategy, inspire teams, uphold our values, and foster an inclusive culture.
The Role
We are seeking an accomplished Senior Solution Architect with deep expertise in designing, building, and architecting low-latency, high-throughput systems.
The ideal candidate will bring strong hands-on experience in C/C++, real-time trading platforms, and resilience engineering, with a proven track record of delivering highly reliable production systems.
Every choice we make aligns to our vision: to become the pre-eminent technology services partner to the world’s top companies.
At Cognizant, we are a high-performing team with heart. Our solutions are in demand and we’re passionate about making a difference. If you have experience with the above, you are a selfless leader and are committed to a client-facing environment; if you want to grow your career with a team that wants to build something great together, we want to hear from you! Apply now!
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture, design, and development of low-latency, high-performance applications.
- Lead & engage clients in discussions on technology migration of high throughput systems in the trading domain
- Drive performance engineering initiatives to ensure scalability, throughput, and minimal latency.
- Design and implement real-time failover mechanisms for mission-critical trading engines.
- Own reliability, resilience, and fault-tolerance strategies across complex technology stacks.
- Troubleshoot and resolve production issues related to performance, stability, and system resilience.
- Build, evolve, and manage chaos engineering and resilience engineering service offerings.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure architectural alignment with business and technical goals.
Qualifications
Experience
- 23+ years of overall experience in software design, development, and architecture.
Technical Skills & Expertise
- Must have experience in Futures & Options trading platform architecture setup for high volume markets
- Must have India trading markets experience in architecting, designing, developing & scaling trading platforms
- Must have hands-on expertise in C/C++ driven application architecture, design, and development.
- Extensive experience in performance engineering, optimization, and tuning of high-throughput systems.
- Proven experience with real-time systems, especially within trading or similar latency-sensitive environments.
- Deep understanding of system reliability, fault tolerance, and high-availability architectures.
- Experience diagnosing and resolving complex production issues in distributed systems.
Preferred Attributes
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Ability to engage with government & semi-government agencies
- Ability to lead technical discussions and mentor senior engineers.
- Experience working in high-pressure, always-on production environments.
- This role is ideal for a seasoned technologist who thrives in complex, high-performance environments and is passionate about building resilient, enterprise-grade systems.
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