Techno-Functional Trading Connectivity & Execution Consultant

Execution Routing | Listed Securities | Java, React, APIs

Cognizant Frontier AI Crew

Techno-functional consulting

Hands-on engineering

ROLE PURPOSE

Join Cognizant’s Frontier AI Crew as a hands-on engineer-consultant focused on electronic trading connectivity and execution routing. You will work with business and technology stakeholders to understand order flows, convert them into robust technical solutions, and code across services, integrations and user-facing components.

BUSINESS OUTCOMES

- Strengthen reliable order routing and execution connectivity for listed-securities trading.

- Improve change delivery by pairing domain analysis with hands-on Java engineering.

- Use AI-assisted engineering to accelerate delivery, testing and support while preserving code quality and control.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

- Analyse electronic order flows from capture through routing, execution response and downstream processing.

- Work with product owners, trading stakeholders and engineers to clarify requirements, edge cases, controls and acceptance criteria.

- Build and maintain Java services and integrations supporting trading connectivity and execution-routing workflows.

- Develop or enhance user-facing components using React, TypeScript or Web Components where required.

- Design and consume REST APIs; work with TCP/IP-based connectivity and asynchronous integration patterns.

- Participate in backlog refinement, technical design, coding, testing, releases and production support.

- Troubleshoot complex functional and technical issues using logs, data analysis and code-level diagnosis.

- Adopt AI-assisted practices for analysis,



coding, unit tests, refactoring and documentation, subject to engineering review.

DOMAIN CAPABILITIES (DESIRABLE)

- Working awareness of listed-securities trading, particularly Equities, Listed Funds/ETFs and Fixed Income.

- Basic knowledge of order routing and execution concepts, including order attributes, destinations, acknowledgements, fills, partial fills, rejects, amendments and cancellations.

- Ability to reason across front-office order capture, connectivity, execution venues and downstream booking or reporting impacts.

- Awareness of operational resilience, auditability and control requirements for electronic trading platforms.

ENGINEERING CAPABILITIES

- Strong Java and object-oriented programming skills with production coding experience.

- Spring Boot, REST APIs and service integration.

- React and TypeScript exposure, with willingness to work across the full stack.

- Linux, SQL, Git/GitLab, automated testing and CI/CD fundamentals.

- Practical troubleshooting of distributed enterprise applications and networked integrations.

- Use of GitHub Copilot or comparable AI-assisted development tools.

CONSULTING AND CLIENT ENGAGEMENT

- Translate trading workflows into functional and technical designs that engineering teams can implement.

- Lead or support workshops,



backlog refinement and solution walkthroughs with global stakeholders.

- Document interface contracts, process flows, exception scenarios, non-functional needs and decision rationale.

- Communicate trade-offs clearly and balance business value, delivery speed, architecture standards and operational risk.

- Contribute reusable execution-routing patterns and AI-enabled engineering practices to the Frontier AI Crew.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE

- 8+ years of professional Java software-development experience with evidence of hands-on delivery.

- Exposure to electronic trading, trading connectivity, execution routing, order management or another low-latency transaction domain is an advantage, but not essential.

- Ability to perform both techno-functional analysis and code-level implementation.

- Solid analytical skills and confidence working with distributed business and engineering teams.

- Experience across the software lifecycle, including testing, deployment and production support.

- Hands-on experience in AI-based development, including delivery using AI coding assistants and AI-enabled engineering practices.

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills (essential).

- Location: Pune preferred. Hyderabad only for exceptionally strong candidates.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE

- FIX protocol or venue/broker connectivity.

- Kafka or event-driven architecture.

- React, TypeScript or Web Components.

- TCP/IP diagnostics, observability tooling and performance analysis.

- Experience with AI-enabled software engineering practices in regulated financial services.

📌 Java React - listed-securities trading (India)
🏢 Cognizant
📍 India