4 days ago
Base Salary
$200k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Partner with sales, account, and professional services teams as the technical lead for enterprise platform pursuits and own the technical win from qualification to close.
- Run technical discovery and map client engineering, AI, cloud, and operations outcomes to Cognizant platforms.
- Design and present solution architectures integrating Cognizant platforms with client tooling, hyperscalers, and ecosystem partners.
- Build and deliver tailored demonstrations, proofs of concept, and readiness assessments.
- Articulate platform commercial and delivery value, including chargeback, managed-services, and outcome-based models.
- Respond to technical sections of RFPs, RFIs, and bid processes and shape proposals.
- Represent platforms at industry events, cloud marketplaces, and partner motions.
- Capture client requirements and field feedback for Platform Engineering roadmaps.
- Hand off adopted platforms to implementation teams and Forward Deployed Engineers while supporting adoption and expansion.
- Mentor and develop a team of Field Solution Engineers.
Requirements
- 20+ years of experience in software, AI, digital, and cloud engineering.
- 5+ years of advisory-led technical conversations about software products and platforms with senior client engineers, architects, and C-suite technology leaders.
- At least 2 years of hands-on experience across AI-infused SDLC and ADLC, including modern engineering, DevSecOps, cloud modernization, AI assurance, SRE/AIOps, and agentic or generative-AI solutions.
- Working knowledge of AWS, Microsoft, Google, Anthropic, OpenAI, NVIDIA, LLM providers, orchestration frameworks, CI/CD, and observability tooling.
- Experience as a software or platform product engineer, advisory or solutions engineer, developer advocate, solution architect, or hands-on software engineer transitioning to a client-facing technical go-to-market role.
- Excellent communication and storytelling skills, including the ability to deliver demonstrations tied to business outcomes.
- Ability to manage multiple pursuits and collaborate across sales, commercial, Platform Engineering, Demo and Workshops, implementation, and Forward Deployed Engineering teams.
- Willingness to travel to client sites, studios, and industry events.
- Preferred: hyperscaler or relevant professional certifications in solutions architecture, DevOps, ML/AI, or security.
- Preferred: experience with PaaS/SaaS or platform engagements, managed-services or outcome-based models, cloud marketplaces, co-sell motions, and product roadmap feedback.
Benefits
- Annual base salary of $200,000-$250,000 depending on experience and qualifications, plus eligibility for a discretionary annual bonus and stock awards.
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
- Paid holidays, paid time off, and paid parental leave.
- 401(k) plan and contributions.
- Long-term and short-term disability coverage.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Requires travel to client sites, studios, and industry events as needed.
Tech Stack
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About Cognizant
Cognizant is a public IT services and consulting firm that designs, builds, and runs enterprise technology, including digital engineering, cloud modernization, data/AI, and managed services. It sells consulting, systems integration, and outsourcing on multi-year engagements to large enterprises in healthcare, banking, retail, communications, and manufacturing. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey, Cognizant is NASDAQ-listed (CTSH) and a Fortune 500 company.