Senior/Lead Software Engineer - .Net - Remote
Cognizant · Tallahassee, FL
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Jul 27, 2026
Tallahassee, FL
Jul 28, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A Senior/Lead .NET Developer role at Cognizant's IoT practice, responsible for designing and delivering scalable, high-throughput enterprise applications using .NET Core, C#, and cloud-native Microsoft Azure technologies. The position carries team leadership duties — mentoring developers and driving technical standards — alongside hands-on architecture work spanning microservices, event-driven systems (Kafka), and containerized deployments on Kubernetes.
Senior level · 8+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
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Why we read it this way (5)
No work location or metro area is specified in the posting; the CBSA fields have been left blank. The role does not appear to be advertised as remote.
The title reads 'Senior/Lead' — the posting presents both levels simultaneously. 'Senior' is used as the advertised seniority since it is the first and more common framing; the leadership and mentoring duties are consistent with a Senior/Lead IC rather than a formal people-management role, so the individual-contributor SOC (15-1252) is preferred over 11-3021, though the alt code is noted given the explicit team-lead framing.
Compensation is described only as 'Base Salary + COLA' with no figures provided; no numeric range could be extracted.
Observability tools (Application Insights, Prometheus, Grafana) are listed under Required Skills but introduced with 'Experience with … (… etc.)' — the 'etc.' framing and parenthetical presentation suggest familiarity rather than a hard gate, so these are marked preferred.
AI development tools (GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude) appear under Required Skills but are framed as 'Familiarity with' — a softer qualifier — so they are marked preferred.
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