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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Sr. Software Engineer B3 - **Company:** cognizant - **Location:** UK - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** £52,543.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), JavaScript (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, Knowledge Management, MySQL, Standard Sql, Spring-boot, AngularJS - **Published:** October 25, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5210485327 ## 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. * * Take concious effort to improve the diversity quotient of the teams during recruitment* Organize educational, inspiring, bonding community events (inperson and virtual). * * Conduct hiring discussions. * * Identify potential retention risks and take mitigation measures. * * Formulate evaluation criteria for recruitment. * * Participate in college recruitment, summer programs, hackathons, job fairs, etc to attract new hires to Cognizant. * * Facilitate mentorship process in a small community of members. * * Mentor the team on community brand positioning strategies* Participate in external brand positioning activities. * * Report any deviations from people practices that do not reflect organizational values. * * Conduct people management processes with fairness, transparency and diligent. * * Contribute to design and establishment of people management processes. Kra-2 Delivering superior engineering outcomes: * * Be able to effectively elicit role and project expectations and explain the same to stakeholders participating in talent. * * Understand the competencyproficiency role mapping for self. * * Solicit performance feedback and use it to identify proficiency gaps in the remit of the role. * * Periodically evaluate team performance and provide the adequate feedback required to help members move along the path to. * * Track the team performance on a regular basis and report any risk to delivery. * * Contribute to and lead community members in building knowledge management repository. * * Be aware of community capabilities available from other communities and facilitate leveraging them as and when needed. * * 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* Reviews the engineering metrics with Engineering managers to ensure that the project goals and customer goals are met. * * Reviews the deliverables and engineering metrics of the account with Engineering Managers to ensure that the SOW clauses. * * Discuss competency of the Community members with the Engineering managers and perform corrective action based on gaps* Provide honest consistent feedback to peers and team members. * * Encourage Community leads to attend courses on giving proper feedback and mentoring. * * Recognize team members for job well done and nominates for recognition. * * Guide team members in coming up with an improvement plan when applicable. * * Understand the metrics that are relevant for benchmarking diffrent 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: * * Identify the enablement needs of the team under direct supervision. * * Lead knowledge sharing sessions in your area of expertise* Work with enablement teams to tailor the programs relevent to members. * * 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. * * Help team members understand the diversity of career opportunities available in CDE and across Cognizant. * * Observe capabilities of team members and discuss how their aspirations can be fulfilled through the organizational career lattice. * * 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. * * Track the progress of interview, offer letter and onboarding dates for hiring requirements in your engagement/account/customer context. * * 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 strong Organizational Interconnects: * * Drive discussions with your team on identifying capabilities and ambitions of moving to a different career track. Kra6 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 * Angular JS * Java Good To Have Skills * AWS * SQL * Spring Boot * JavaScript * MySQL