Cloud Architect, Consulting Principal

Company: Cognizant
Location: New York
Posted on: February 21, 2025

Job Description:

Cloud Architect, Consulting PrincipalTechnology ConsultingABOUT USCognizant is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build, and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant, a member of the NASDAQ-100, is ranked 195 on the Fortune 500 and is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at .COGNIZANT CONSULTINGWithin Cognizant is Cognizant Consulting, a global consulting organization delivering strategic and domain consulting through industry and technology expertise. With over 6,000 consultants worldwide, Cognizant offers high-value consulting services that improve business performance and operational productivity, lower operational expenses, and enhance overall performance. Clients draw upon our deep industry expertise, program and change management capabilities, and analytical objectivity to help improve business productivity, drive technology-enabled business transformation, and increase shareholder value.THE ROLECognizant Technology Consulting is changing the game in Data, Cloud, and Generative AI based consultancy services. We're looking for a Consulting Principal who can deliver within Cognizant's Five Pillars of Consulting Excellence, which are: 1) Project Execution, 2) Expertise, 3) Business Development, 4) Practice Development, & 5) People Development. As the Consulting Principal, this means overseeing advisory consulting engagements, being a trusted advisor to clients, establishing oneself as a thought leader in your field, solving complex problems, consultatively working with a client to achieve business goals, and serving as a people leader, guiding multiple teams as they work to transform a client and the world.RESPONSIBILITIES

• Serve as the Technical Lead and manage teams of Consultants for one or more commercial projects to ensure effective negotiations, well-aligned solution-delivery-to-plan, clear engagement governance accountabilities, profitability, and overall client satisfaction.
• Enrich client partnering and anticipate client needs based on a solid understanding of emerging industry requirements and/or technological breakthroughs in Technology Consulting including Agile Methodologies, DevOps Automation, Enterprise Software Applications, and Large-scale distributed systems.
• Ensure appropriate alignment and collaboration of consulting teams and individuals to support project requirements and activities.
• Advocate for and establish appropriate recognition for Consulting within projects, and negotiate applicable consultant rates in project sizing.
• Develop and manage the capture, communication, and sharing of intellectual property (IP) and project artifacts.
• Exercise leadership in the development of Consulting service offerings.
• Support and contribute to the establishment of thought leadership in the industry.QUALIFICATIONS
  • Demonstrates thought leadership, e.g.: Guides/upskill other engineers and clients in cloud best practices.
  • Deep understanding of AWS, Azure, and/or GCP and how to leverage them (certifications a plus).
  • Past enterprise level experience in DevOps, Software, Infrastructure, or Site Reliability Engineering.
  • Proficient in infrastructure as code practices using technologies such as CDK, KPT, Terraform, Chef, Puppet, AWS CloudFormation, and/or SaltStack.
  • Proficient in one or more enterprise scale observability tools such as Splunk, Datadog, FluentD, ELK.
  • Ability to document solutions, cloud architectural patterns, and best practices.
  • Proven ability to partner with cloud hyperscale partners to define and troubleshoot cloud architectures.
  • Experience maintaining and improving the reliability of applications and infrastructure.
  • Hands-on experience developing and improving all phases of the software development/delivery lifecycle.
  • Experience building CI/CD pipelines from scratch.
  • Strong grasp of container technology including container orchestration with tools such as Kubernetes, Rancher, Docker Swarm, or similar.
  • Solid understanding of Microservices and API.
  • Eager to problem solve and troubleshoot issues that may arise.Work AuthorizationCognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship.Salary and Other Compensation:The annual salary for this position is between $122,400 - $194,000 depending on experience and other qualifications.This position is also eligible for Cognizant's discretionary annual incentive program and stock awards, based on performance.Benefits:
    • Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
    • Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
    • 401(k) plan and contributions
    • Long-term/Short-term Disability
    • Paid Parental Leave
    • Employee Stock Purchase PlanDisclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time.
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