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What makes Cognizant a unique place to work? The combination of rapid growth and an international and innovative environment! This is creating a lot of opportunities for people like YOU — people with an entrepreneurial spirit who want to make a difference in this world.
At Cognizant, together with your colleagues from all around the world, you will collaborate on creating solutions for the world's leading companies and help them become more flexible, more innovative and successful. And this is your chance to be part of the success story: we are looking for a Functional Architect to join our Enterprise Platform Services team.
About Cognizant EPS SCM unit
Cognizant EPS SCM is a business unit within the Enterprise Platform Service line, dedicated to delivering high-performance and sustainable supply chain solutions across various markets and geographies. Leveraging next-generation technologies, we help clients modernize their supply chain operations, reduce costs, and enhance risk management capabilities. Our comprehensive offerings enable clients to lower operational costs and seize new opportunities without adding risk, focusing on integrated planning, strategic sourcing and procurement, dynamic fulfillment, and smart manufacturing. Our services encompass supply chain advisory, transformation, operations, and digital innovation, ensuring a modernized, efficient, and sustainable supply chain.
Background
* The wholesale bank account reporting engine, the GCRP application, is a critical application for the bank and its customers. Given that GCRP is the strategic account reporting engine, its functionalities and customer reach keep expanding. With this expanding scope and business criticality, the importance of proper testing is ever increasing.
Role description
You will be responsible for:
* Writing PL-SQL, performance tuning and database administration.
* Enforcing best practices, standards and guidelines across the domain.
* Contributing to monitoring & alerting, risk, and resilience as part of a true DevOps squad.
* Participating in Operations related activities (incident management, standby, release management, change and problem management).
* Sharing knowledge and skills with other engineers in the squad.
* Knowledge of Oracle Apex along with the ability to build some automation testing of front end screens is a plus.
Role requirements
* Must have experience working with Oracle 12c or greater.
* Must have experience with DBA activities and be able to identify and implement improvements required in the database.
* Must have experience writing and analyzing complex PL-SQL, tuning and optimizing queries.
* Must be able to write database documentation, including data standards, procedures and definitions for the data dictionary (metadata).
* Must be able to read, analyze and advise based on AWR/Statspack reports.
* Knowledge of Oracle Apex.
* Expected to contribute to monitoring & alerting, risk and resilience as part of a true DevOps squad.
* Able to write unit tests and functional tests preferably in Cucumber.
Technology & tools
* Experience with SQL (Oracle).
* Experience with Linux and Windows-based machines.
* Experience with networking (FTP, XFB, MQ, EMS).
* Experience using Docker/containers for testing.
* Experience with Azure Pipelines.
* Experience with Jenkins, CI/CD and Ansible.
Soft skills
* Experience training and coaching junior engineers in the field of testing.
* Waste buster > automation mindset, not only related to testing but to everything.
* Always eager to learn new skills and teach others in the process.
* Proactive attitude > don't wait for someone to tell you what to do.
* Not shy to express and defend opinions in front of a crowd (even if it may not be the popular opinion).
Other
* Experience with Agile and Scrum methodologies.
* Experience working in an international environment.
* Knowledge of Payments and Account Reporting.
Our offer:
* A competitive salary based on your qualities and experience.
* Access to Udemy, Cognizant Academy digital libraries for your continuous learning.
* 32 days of paid holiday per year.
* A car allowance.
* A laptop and a smartphone.
* Pension schemes.
* Hospitalization insurance.
* Organization driven by technology – we have a tremendous technology backbone.
* Open, ‘can do’ team spirit and international environment that encourages making your ideas a reality!
* 40 hours working week.
* Possibility to work hybrid.
* Relocation support if needed.
Recruiter Contact details
Email: Panayiotis.Krashias@cognizant.com
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