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/non-functional 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 (project-dependent 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 post-deployment 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.
  • Post-warranty, support in transition to the maintenance team.
• Knowledge Management:
  • Post-release participate in project review call and discuss points on what went well and what didn’t.
  • 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, face-to-face 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