SR DATA ENGINEER - Cognizant

Technical Lead

• Qualification: Bachelors in science engineering or equivalent
• Responsibility:
• Project Planning and Setup:
• Understand the project scope identify activities/tasks task level estimates schedule dependencies risks and provide inputs to Module Lead for review.
• Provide inputs to testing strategy configuration deployment hardware/software requirements etc.
• Review plan and provide feedback on gaps timeline and execution feasibility as required in the project.
• Participate in KT sessions conducted by customer/other business teams and provide feedback on requirements.
• Requirement Understanding and Analysis:
• Analyze functional/nonfunctional requirements and seek clarifications for a better understanding of requirements.
• Based on understanding of system upstream & downstream provide feedback and inputs on gaps in requirements and technical feasibility of requirements.
• Design:
• Prepare the LLD/detailed design documents based on HLD and briefing from Module Lead.
• Seek inputs from the developers on specific modules as applicable.
• Consolidate all modules and provide to Module Lead/Architects/Designers for review.
• Suggest changes in design on technical grounds.
• Develop components inventory for the code to be developed tying it to the nonfunctional requirements.
• Perform sampling of data to understand the character/quality of the data (projectdependent in the absence of data analyst or designer).
• Identify tools and technologies to be used in the project as well as reusable objects that could be customized for the project.
• Coding:
• Follow coding standards and best practices to develop code and check code quality.
• Share developed code with the supervisor for review.
• Rework on the code based on inputs if required.
• Perform complex integration.
• Guide the developers in identifying preparing and conducting unit test cases and fixing defects based on results.
• Consolidate the test results and share with the supervisor.
• Provide periodic status update to the supervisor and highlight/recommend any changes in design based on challenges faced.
• Anticipate unreported defects and raise the same to the supervisor.
• Conduct technical troubleshooting.
• Conduct reviews for codes created by the team.
• Testing Management:
• Develop unit test case for each module.
• Conduct/guide the conducting of unit and integration testing and fix defects.
• Review/approve code to be moved to testing environment.
• Provide support to the QA team and coordinate for various phases of testing.
• Address queries raised by QA within defined timelines.
• Investigate critical defects and establish the need for fixing.
• Raise issues to leads/QA.
• Report defect status as per project standard process within agreed timelines.
• Share revised code with the supervisor for review.
• Assist the team lead and project manager on estimates around defect fixes.
• Configuration Management:
• Maintain versions of the code or consolidate version maintained by the Developers.
• Provide support as required to the Administrators during configuration code backups deployment etc.
• Deployment:
• Assess and create deployment/rollback plan.
• Validate if all the components have been migrated and the right version is checked in.
• Maintain deployment tracker.
• Perform sanity checks postdeployment to ensure smooth production.
• Share activity status with the supervisor and highlight concerns if any.
• Project Execution Monitoring & closure (Support to Project Management activities):
• Monitor the work of the developers and share work achieved with them.
• Provide guidance through SDLC.
• Provide status of progress to leads.
• In case of change requests provide inputs on the plan.
• Service Support and Maintenance:
• Provide support for 1 week and hand over to the production team.
• Identify if the incoming request is a service request/defect during the warranty or an incident.
• If it is a code defect in the warranty highlight to Lead and initiate defect fix process.
• Postwarranty support in transition to the maintenance team.
• Knowledge Management:
• Postrelease participate in project review call and discuss points on what went well and what didnt.
• Create and update knowledge articles (case studies lessons learned) in the knowledge management repository.
• Guide developers in creating such documents.
• Publish white papers/blogs/articles (if required).
• People Management:
• Conduct training through academy or internally within the team.
• Conduct technical facetoface interviews for internal transfer or external hiring.
• Provide feedback on Developers from a technical/domain standpoint to the module lead.
• Must Have Skills:
• Python
• Seaborn
• Good To Have Skills