Security Senior Technical Consultant

at  Cognizant

The Security Senior Technical Consultant has extensive knowledge and experience in designing and implementing solutions on the ServiceNow Platform. Senior Technical Consultant defines, develops, tests, analyzes, and maintains software applications in support of the achievement of the business requirements. The role demands strong analytical skills and high research, design, documentation, and software modification capabilities throughout the production life cycle. Technical Consultant Seniors also proactively provide mentoring, support and guidance to the Junior Developers and perform with a high autonomy level. Due to theirs outstanding skills and high level of decision making, Seniors Developers usually act as a Project Team Leads.

REQUIRED SKILLS & ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

• Bachelor’s degree preferably in Information Technology, Engineering, or the Sciences
• Professional Certification
• ServiceNow Certified System Administrator (CSA)
• Certified Application Developer
• 2+ Security & Risk ServiceNow CIS Certifications
• Proven experience in 2 additional product lines outside of Security & Risk
• Has a high-level of understanding in scripting and app development, including familiarity with web services, API’s and mobile application design.
• ServiceNow AND JavaScript scripting is required.
• Angular JS, Soap, Rest, JSON, Ajax, CSS, SaSS, HTML5, SP Widgets, and XML are all desired.
• Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Visio
  Applications will be accepted until 11/15/2024.
  The annual salary for this position is between $110,000.00 – $129,000.00 depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.
  This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.

Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:

• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
• Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
• 401(k) plan and contributions
• Long-term/Short-term Disability
• Paid Parental Leave
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.

• Manage all meaningful project processes such as: platform architecture documentation, integration documentation, work-effort estimation, and hands-on sophisticated development.
• Assist in leading Requirements workshops and design discussions for Security & Risk projects, consulting on both ServiceNow and Security & Risk standard processes.
• Attend, participate, and occasionally lead Scrum meetings.
• Translate requirements/stories and mock-ups into fully functional features by working closely with the implementation project team.
• Fulfill Project´s technical development and configuration at the highest standard of technical quality contributing with assignments, follow up and mentorship to Junior / Mid developers.
• Fulfill technical design guidance within our projects following ServiceNow standard methodologies.
• Ensure Project Lead receives timely updates on work you’re doing to facilitate frequent and proactive customer communication.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of Delivery Services processes as well as the maturing of the different portfolios, capabilities, expertise, and standard methodologies in consideration of Customer needs and requirements.
• Fill technical or process roles in our projects, if needed.
• Lead, educate, mentor and develop the resources who are assigned to their projects.
• Assist in the scoping of new opportunities, design tools and techniques to deliver efficiently.
• Act as the final escalation point for technical decision-making within a project.
• Manage all important project processes such as: platform architecture documentation, integration documentation, work-effort estimation and hands-on advanced development.