Senior .NET Full-Stack Architect Azure & Microservices

Cognizant; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 100,000 - 163,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays and PTO

401(k) plan and contributions

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a .NET Full Stack Architect to design and deliver scalable, high-performance enterprise applications across cloud and on-premises environments. You will collaborate with developers, DevOps engineers, product teams, and architects to drive technical decisions.

You will lead full-stack development across backend services, APIs, and responsive front-end applications, define scalable microservices architectures, and drive cloud adoption with Azure services.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in software development and architecture.
• Strong experience in Microsoft .NET development including .NET Core, C#, Web API, and microservices.
• Expertise in front-end development using Angular (v9+), JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3.
• Hands-on experience with Azure cloud services (App Services, Functions, Azure SQL, Storage, Key Vault, Azure AD).
• Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and DevOps pipelines.
• Solid understanding of SQL Server, queries, stored procedures, performance tuning, indexing.
• Knowledge of application security, networking concepts (VNet, private endpoints), and secure auth implementations.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end solutions using .NET technologies and modern front-end frameworks.
• Lead full-stack development across backend services, APIs, and responsive front-end apps.
• Define and implement scalable microservices architectures with containers.
• Drive cloud adoption and solution design using Microsoft Azure services.
• Provide technical leadership, best practices, and mentoring across development teams.

Skills

Full stack architecture

NET development

Angular

Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

SQL Server

Security concepts

Microservices

DevOps

Tools

Git

NPM

Angular CLI

CI/CD

Azure DevOps

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a .NET Full Stack Architect to design and deliver scalable, high-performance enterprise applications across cloud and on-premises environments. You will collaborate with developers, DevOps engineers, product teams, and architects to drive technical decisions.

You will lead full-stack development across backend services, APIs, and responsive front-end applications, define scalable microservices architectures, and drive cloud adoption with Azure services.