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# Cognizant hiring for Java developer

- **Company:** cognizant
- **Location:** UK
- **Salary:** £45,024.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Spring-boot, Microservices
- **Published:** September 13, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5210481484

## About the Role

Graduate

## Description

* * Clearly undestrand community career lattice and be able to explain the same to team members.
 * * Demostrate appreciation of diversity and inclusion in professional interactions.
 * * Highlight any observable deviations in areas of diversity and inclusion.
 * * Refer new talent for hiring.
 * * Conduct hiring discussions.
 * * Identify potential retention risks.
 * * Facilitate mentorship process in a small community of members.
 * * Inculcate community brand positioning professional iteractions.
 * * Report any deviations from people practices that do not reflect organizational values.
 * * Conduct people management processes with fairness, transparency and diligent.

Kra-2

Delivering superior engineering outcomes:

 * * Understand the competencyproficiency role mapping for self.
 * * Solicit performance feedback and use it to identify proficiency gaps in the remit of the role.
 * * Update the home manager of any concerns with regards to the responsibilities undertaken in an engagement.
 * * Help team members articulate project expectations, provide guidance and supervision to deliver the defined tasks.
 * * Participate actively in responding to requests for help/assistance.
 * * Proactively engage with members to understand their challenges and direct them to knowledge centers within the community.
 * * Make judicious and practical commitments while undertaking engineering responsibilities.
 * * Highlight any dependencies, risks and bottnecks which can influence your commitments.
 * * Make every effort to ensure your commitments are honoured and delivered.
 * * Proactively reach out for feedback from peers and managers.
 * * Provide reviews and feedback when requested by peers.
 * * Work out an improvement plan with the managers when applicable.
 * * Understand the metrics that are relevant for benchmarking different activities.
 * * Understand the impact of the metrics to the business outcomes of the customer.
 * * Understand how the metrics are mapped and tracked in Cognizant system.

Kra-3

Fostering strong competency:

 * * Clearly understand enablement goals and be able to explain the same to team members.
 * * Identify the enablement needs of the team.
 * * Set up strategy and processes for driving competency gap identification and closures at a community level.
 * * Drive bestpractices for eliciting competencyproficiency gaps.
 * * Set up a plan for closing individual rolecompetency gaps and work towards the same.
 * * Facilitate participation of team members in various experience building forums.

Kra-4

Operating efficiently:

 * * Ensure the skill profile and resume are kept current.
 * * Manage a roster of interview panelists from your team and ensure nominations are load balanced and respect individual constraints.
 * * Prepare knowledge base for providing engagement related induction to new joiners from engineering community.
 * * Extend support for helping new community members settle into their new role, including logistical help if required.
 * * Trigger a conversation with HCM supervisor for rotation as per the policy.
 * * Upskill oneself with new skills while on the job to make oneself eligible for rotation* Be accountable for resolving any conflicts transparently and fairly during the performance management process.
 * * Drive community specific performance management operational processes.
 * * Keep a tab on the Rewards and Recognition process, rewards granted and works with operations team for required changes.
 * * Motivate leads and Managers to reward associates in an appropriate and timely manner.
 * * Update Resume in HCM and ensure skill profile in MyCareerApp are current.
 * * Mentor your teams to keep record the skill profile promptly and bring newly acquired skills and proficiencies to the notice of their home manager.
 * * Contributes to the talent profiling framework and the benchmark associated with the various role & responsibility.
 * * Discussion with the associate on the competency gaps and remedial steps required to overcome the gaps.

Kra-5

Building Engineering Mindshare:

 * * Identify ideas that can be converted into reusable assets.
 * * Contribute towards creating reusable assets.
 * * Contribute to white papers under guidance.
 * * Contribute to experince papers under guidance.
 * * Contribute to case studies under guidance.

Must Have Skills

 * Java 8
 * Spring Boot
 * Microservices
 * Java
 * Core Java