Expectations from a Digital Engineering Solution Architect – Java 
Please send resumes to visweshwar.daveson@cognizant.com
o Proven ability to lead and contribute to the design, development and implementation of winning technical solutions/ estimation for customers for the given business problems.
o Ability to translate the customer requirement/ business problems into a technical solution and choose the right technology stack and cloud features/ components needed for Solutioning
o Possess a broad understanding of response to customer RFIs/ RFPs Analyzing and understanding customer requirements for technical proposal submissions.
o Experience in design and development of an end-to-end Cloud solution (Native or Hybrid Cloud) 
o Certification in Azure or AWS (Architect or Dev) with understanding of ‘how to configure & use’
o Experience in Cloud migration and modernization approaches and/or Technology version upgrades. 
o Understanding of standard estimation methodologies for App Dev & Migration projects. 
o Understanding of the business value chain of industry domains (BFSI/ HLS/ P&R etc) 
o Overall experience of 10 - 15 years 
o Clarity in thinking and communication and ability to present solutions to senior leadership. 
Detailed Technical experience 
Essential Skills (one or more of the following)
o Microservices Design Patterns (essential)
o Containerization (essential)
o DevOps Design (Build & Release pipeline design) & DevOps Tools (essential)
- Application Life Cycle Management Tools (essential)
 - Source Control (GIT) and Branching Strategy (essential)
 - API Gateway Design
 - Cloud Security Guidelines
 - Event Driven Architecture/Domain driven design (essential)
 
o Microservices inter-service communication, Service Mesh (essential)
o Usage of Design Patterns (essential)
Technical stack (Any One)
o .Net stack - .NET Core, .NET ver x.x, iBatis (For Azure/.Net Solution Architects)
o Java stack - Java , spring boot, Sping cloud, Spring MVC, hibernate , Junit (For AWS/Java Solution Architects) 
o Node JS stack (or equivalent for AWS/Java Solution architects)
Good to have skills
- Security Design 
 - Authentication
 - Authorization
 - API Security
 - Vulnerability assessment
 
o Cloud/Agile/NFR
- Application Migration to Cloud Awareness / Approach
 - Angular/ReactJS/Spring MVC
 - Agile Certification (viz. Scrum Master)
 - Foundational Generative AI concepts 
 - NFR solution components 
 
