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Sr. Engineering Manager at Cognizant

Posted in Information Technology 30+ days ago.

Type: Full-Time
Location: Newark, New Jersey





Job Description:

Digital Engineering Senior Manager

If you’re like us, you’ve got big ideas. At Cognizant, we’re exploring new ideas every day. We help industry leading companies reinvent their business models and innovate products that create new value—by connecting people with things, insights and experiences.

Cognizant Digital Engineering designs, engineers and delivers digital products and experiences that drive digital-first business models. We offer the most comprehensive digital engineering expertise and client-centric methodology for sustainable innovation.

Cognizant’s Digital Engineering practice is seeking highly-qualified Engineering Managers with experience leading the development of high-performing, scalable, enterprise digital solutions. You will lead a software engineering community inspiring a passion for high-quality outcomes. Our engineers are agile and retrospective, and not afraid to identify what we’re doing wrong, so we can fix it, and what we’re doing right, so we can improve on it. Above all, we judge success by the success of our team and the happiness of our customers.

Location: Dallas, TX; Chicago, IL; Atlanta, GA; New York, NY; San Francisco, CA; or Remote United States

Currently remote and open to remote candidates; however, prefer candidates to be based in these metro areas or willing to relocate.

Cognizant will not sponsor H-1B or other U.S. work authorization for this role.

Responsibilities


  • The Engineering Manager will lead overall delivery of large-scale software and digital engineering projects & programs

  • Direct development and delivery phases (discovery, estimation, initiation, planning, design, execution and releasing) of complex technology projects and programs

  • Ensure delivery standards are optimized throughout the life of a software project

  • Develop practical solutions to achieve program efficiency, quality and schedule objectives. Management through metrics & KPIs

  • Drive key technical decisions and proactively handle risks, issue and roadblocks to ensure success solution delivery of the end product

  • Ability to evaluate architectures

  • Hiring new talent and team members from various backgrounds (technical & non-technical - Architects, Product Management, Full Stack Engineers)

  • Build, develop, mentor and guide individual’s professional development regardless of diversity, geography and experience

  • Provide technical leadership and advising on solutions, products and proposals across the organization

  • Drive client engagement from strategy planning to critical issue management

  • Support ongoing growth within the account

  • Contribute to mature the overall digital engineering community

Qualifications


  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field; Master’s degree preferred

  • Background in Software Delivery Management, Product Management or Solution Architecture, ideally with 10+ years of hands-on experience

  • Excellent Project Management and organizational skills in a highly technical environment

  • Excellent leadership, business communication and time management skills required

  • Experience collaborating with client’s senior leaders & stakeholders

  • Business Development experience with product solutioning and client engagement. Experience establishing detailed cost estimates, project schedules and resourcing plans

  • Knowledge of software development/Product lifecycle, methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, …)

  • Experience with planning, resourcing, and delivering large-scale technical projects

  • Experience with project financial management to ensure efficient delivery management and tracking

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE


  • Experience executing projects related to modernization, re-platforming of large-scale solutions

  • Experience executing from ground up solutions

  • Experience delivering built for cloud solutions

  • Experience delivering micro-service architectures

Location: United States; Remote

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You must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.

About Cognizant

Headquartered in the U.S, Cognizant is a member of the S&P-500, Nasdaq-100, Fortune 200, and was recently ranked as the #1 Fastest Growing “All Star” by Fortune Magazine. Cognizant uses a highly flexible business model, a detailed global delivery network, and deep domain expertise to deliver to a long list of best-in-class companies that are leaders in their own space.

Cognizant is recognized as a Military Friendly Employer and is a coalition member of the Veteran Jobs Mission. Our Cognizant Veterans Network assists Veterans in building and growing a career at Cognizant that allows them to demonstrate the leadership, loyalty, integrity, and commitment to quality instilled in them through participation in military service.

Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer provider, and we are committed to creating a diverse environment. Cognizant considers all applicants without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, age, and marital status, disabilities, sexual orientation or preference, veteran status, or any other classification protected by state, federal, or local law.

www.cognizant.com

NASDAQ: CTSH

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Technical Skills














SNo Primary Skill Proficiency Level * Rqrd./Dsrd.
1 OpenCore PL1 Required

 

* Proficiency Legends






















Proficiency Level Generic Reference
PL1 The associate has basic awareness and comprehension of the skill and is in the process of acquiring this skill through various channels.
PL2 The associate possesses working knowledge of the skill, and can actively and independently apply this skill in engagements and projects.
PL3 The associate has comprehensive, in-depth and specialized knowledge of the skill. She / he has extensively demonstrated successful application of the skill in engagements or projects.
PL4 The associate can function as a subject matter expert for this skill. The associate is capable of analyzing, evaluating and synthesizing solutions using the skill.





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