Engineering Director:

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 Enterprise 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 Enterprise 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 US

Roles & Responsibilities:

• The Engineering Manager will be responsible for leading overall delivery of large-scale engineering projects & programs


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


• Ensure delivery standards and best practices are utilized throughout the life of a project to ensure optimal delivery of the solution


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


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


• Ability to evaluate architectures


• Ability to evaluate and hire team members from various background (technical & non-technical - Architecture, Product Management, Full Stack Engineer, …)


• 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 escalation management


• Support ongoing growth within the account


• Contribute to mature the overall digital engineering community

Requirements

• 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 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 optimal 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                                                                                        #LI-SP1

Technical Skills

* Proficiency Legends