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Lead Software Engineer Qualification: Graduate Responsibility: Establishing a strong community of engineers: • Clearly understand 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. 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 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. Fostering strong competency: • Clearly understand enablement goals and be able to explian 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. 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. 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 experience papers under guidance. • Contribute to case studies under guidance. Must Have Skills • .Net Core