Description
Engineering Delivery Director (Onsite)

Our practice is seeking a highly qualified Engineering Delivery Director

Our Directors have a passion for high-quality, reliable, and maintainable work. You will collaborate side by side with product managers, designers, and clients, making decisions together to quickly deliver valuable working software to clients and their users. Our Directors are agile and retrospective, and not afraid to identify what we're doing wrong, so we can fix it, so we can improve on it. Above all, we judge success by the success of our team and the happiness of our customers.

Cognizant will not sponsor H-1B or other U.S. work authorization, or lawful permanent residence (otherwise known as a "Green Card") for this role.

Job Location: Pleasanton, CA (US) (Onsite)

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

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Managing end-to-end delivery including the expansion and renewal of existing business, closely working with MDU, MCU, Practice & Solution team on the newer opportunities, review solutions & estimation of all deals, effort estimation & staffing and finalization of contractual terms related to delivery for the below accounts (list will have other accounts based on client acquisition). CSAT, Revenue, COD, Attrition, Employee Engagement score.

• Proactively work with the people/demand planning based on the account visibility and working with OE & TAG team on pipeline building activities by supporting the panel from delivery.

• Closely work with DX-DE internal team and Customers to bring harmony and work jointly to meet customer happiness on work quality and timeline of delivery.

• Proactively involve in campus recruitment, lateral hires and supporting TAG and HR "Leader connect for new joiners" program to address the new joiners and provide Cognizant Overview.

• They will be the single point of contact for MDU for any practice level issue/customer needs.

• As part of People Management, having skip level meeting with the team, try to identify their concern and fulfill their aspirations within the boundary and guardrails of comp/growth.

• Proactively working on crafting POCs across NEXT Gen platforms using Co-Pilot, backstage.io and stack-overflow (and others as applicable) to empower our developers to handle independently their application environments using developer portal.

• They will cultivate an innovative culture within the team and identify new/incremental ideas by conducting Hackathon program to provide benefit for both Client and Cognizant using Bluebolt.

Preferred Capabilities/Skills/Years of Experience

• Handling customers in tough situations and provide thought leadership solutions and set expectations appropriately.

• Excellent knowledge in Change & Release Management Functions and ensures team is also closely supervising and submitting CRs on time to ensure no leakage or attrition of revenue.

• Periodically connects with the customer (MBR or QBR) articulate and summarize business benefits with engaging presentations to customers.

• Mentoring and motivating the team to upskill or cross skill and be relevant to client and our organization.

• Should be able to work with overlap with India time

Qualifications:

Required Capabilities/Skills /Years of Experience

• 20 years of overall IT experience managing delivery of large transformation programs & engagements. Preference - experience in Retail and Consumer Goods Domain.

• 15+ Years of P&L experience with deeper understanding on the various nuances of financial reporting & RFR 1.0 & RFR 2.0.

• They must be running multiple programs across accounts in parallel striking a balance between strategy and execution. Proactively work on "delivery driven proposals" and driving growth for the accounts.

• They need experience in implementing digital transformation, Cloud migration & DevOps driven solutions and willingness to implement machine first development.

• Experience managing large programs (150 FTE +) end to end delivery in waterfall and agile methodologies.

Salary and Other Compensation:

Applications will be accepted until 06/09/2024.

The annual salary for this position is between $95,000 - $197,000 depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

This position is also eligible for Cognizant's discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant's applicable plans.

Benefits:

Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:

• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
• Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
• 401(k) plan and contributions
• Long-term/Short-term Disability
• Paid Parental Leave

Disclaimer: 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, subject to applicable law.

Why Choose Cognizant?

It takes a lot to succeed in today's fast-paced market, and Cognizant Technology Solutions has become a leader in the industry. We love big ideas and even bigger dreams. We stand out because we put human experiences at the core.

Our associates enjoy robust benefits and training opportunities from our industry recognized, award winning Academy team. You will have access to hundreds of technical trainings to keep your skills fresh and have opportunities to acquire certifications on the newest technologies.

If you become comfortable with ambiguity, excited by change, and excel through autonomy, we'd love to hear from you!

About Cognizant

Headquartered in the U.S, Cognizant leverages a highly flexible business model, a detailed global delivery network, and deep domain expertise to deliver to a long list of outstanding companies that are leaders in their own space.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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

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