.Lead Software EngineerQualification: GraduateResponsibilities:Establishing a strong community of engineers:Clearly understand community career lattice and be able to explain the same to team members.Demonstrate appreciation of diversity and inclusion in professional interactions.Highlight any observable deviations in areas of diversity and inclusion.Take conscious effort to improve the diversity quotient of the teams during recruitment.Organize educational, inspiring, bonding community events (in-person and virtual).Conduct hiring discussions.Identify potential retention risks and take mitigation measures.Formulate evaluation criteria for recruitment.Participate in college recruitment, summer programs, hackathons, job fairs, etc. to attract new hires to Cognizant.Facilitate mentorship process in a small community of members.Mentor the team on community brand positioning strategies.Participate in external brand positioning activities.Report any deviations from people practices that do not reflect organizational values.Conduct people management processes with fairness, transparency, and diligence.Contribute to design and establishment of people management processes.Delivering superior engineering outcomes:Effectively elicit role and project expectations and explain the same to stakeholders participating in talent.Understand the competency-proficiency role mapping for self.Solicit performance feedback and use it to identify proficiency gaps in the remit of the role.Periodically evaluate team performance and provide the adequate feedback required to help members move along the path to improvement.Track team performance on a regular basis and report any risk to delivery.Contribute to and lead community members in building knowledge management repository.Be aware of community capabilities available from other communities and facilitate leveraging them as and when needed.Make judicious and practical commitments while undertaking engineering responsibilities.Highlight any dependencies, risks, and bottlenecks which can influence your commitments.Make every effort to ensure your commitments are honored and delivered.Review the engineering metrics with Engineering Managers to ensure that the project goals and customer goals are met.Review the deliverables and engineering metrics of the account with Engineering Managers to ensure that the SOW clauses are met.Discuss competency of the Community members with the Engineering Managers and perform corrective action based on gaps.Provide honest consistent feedback to peers and team members.Encourage Community leads to attend courses on giving proper feedback and mentoring.Recognize team members for a job well done and nominate for recognition.Guide team members in coming up with an improvement plan when applicable.Understand the metrics that are relevant for benchmarking different activities.Understand the impact of the metrics to the business outcomes of the customer