Consulting Principal, Solutions Engineering Lead

Cognizant; Madison (WI); Remote; USD 165,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision and life保险

401(k) plan and contributions

Employee stock purchase plan

Employee assistance program

10 paid holidays plus PTO

Paid parental leave and fertility"

Learning and development certificates

Job summary

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation in Cognizant Consulting is building a global cloud leadership practice with 5,000+ experts focused on helping clients reimagine business through AWS. The Consulting Principal, Solutions Engineering Lead role combines hands-on delivery with consulting leadership, shaping enterprise cloud outcomes.

You will architect enterprise AWS solutions, oversee migrations and modernization, implement IaC with CDK/TypeScript, and drive secure DevSecOps.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of hands-on cloud and infrastructure engineering, including 5+ years focused on AWS
• Strong hands-on AWS CDK and TypeScript expertise
• Proven experience delivering enterprise cloud migration and application modernization
• Strong CI/CD and DevSecOps engineering experience
• Consulting and client-facing delivery experience

Responsibilities

• Architect and deliver enterprise AWS cloud solutions aligned with Well-Architected principles.
• Lead cloud migration and application modernization initiatives, moving applications to AWS with ECS/Fargate, containers, serverless architectures and APIs.
• Design and build Infrastructure as Code using AWS CDK and TypeScript, including reusable constructs and cross-account deployment patterns.
• Engineer secure DevSecOps and CI/CD capabilities with pipelines and automated security/quality gates.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to client teams, leading discovery sessions and architecture reviews and transferring knowledge to strengthen client capabilities across AWS and cloud-native engineering.

Skills

Cloud architecture

AWS expertise

DevSecOps

CI/CD pipelines

Client facing

Leadership

Education

AWS Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional

Tools

Terraform

Job description

About Cognizant Consulting

Cognizant Consulting is more than Cognizant’s consulting practice. We’re a global community of 5,000+ experts dedicated to helping clients reimagine their business. Blending our deep industry and technology advisory capability, we create innovative business solutions for Fortune 500 clients. And now, we’re looking for our next colleague who’ll join us in shaping the future of business. Could it be you?

About the role

As a Consulting Principal, Solutions Engineering Lead , you will make an impact by designing and delivering enterprise-scale AWS cloud solutions that enable complex application migration, modernization, and platform transformation.

You will be a valued member of the Solutions Engineering team and work collaboratively with AWS architects, Cognizant delivery leadership, and client engineering, platform, and product teams. This role combines hands‑on technical delivery with consulting leadership, requiring you to own architectural outcomes while helping client engineering teams build sustainable cloud and DevSecOps capabilities.

In this role, you will:

• Architect and deliver enterprise AWS cloud solutions aligned with AWS Well‑Architected principles, including landing zones, multi‑account architectures, networking, identity and access management, security, and platform engineering for complex financial‑services workloads.

• Lead cloud migration and application modernization initiatives , moving applications from on‑premises and legacy cloud environments to AWS, with emphasis on ECS/Fargate, container‑based services, serverless architectures, APIs, and cloud‑native modernization patterns.

• Design and build Infrastructure as Code using AWS CDK and TypeScript , including reusable L2/L3 constructs, stack composition, cross‑account deployment patterns, AWS Organizations guardrails, and standardized ECS/Fargate service constructs.

• Engineer secure DevSecOps and CI/CD capabilities , including pipeline design and standardization, automated security and quality gates, IAM policies, AWS Config, CloudTrail, Security Hub, CSPM tooling, and cloud compliance controls.

• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to client teams , leading discovery sessions, architecture reviews, technical workshops, paired‑programming sessions, and structured knowledge transfer to strengthen client capabilities across AWS, CDK/TypeScript, DevSecOps, ECS/Fargate, and cloud‑native engineering.

Work model

We strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role’s business requirements, this is a remote position open to qualified applicants in the United States. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work‑life balance through our various wellbeing programs.

The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. This may change based on the project you’re engaged in, as well as business and client requirements. Rest assured, we will always be clear about role expectations.

What you must have to be considered

• 15+ years of hands‑on cloud and infrastructure engineering experience, including 5+ years focused on AWS , with deep architecture expertise across VPC, IAM, EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, AWS Organizations, CloudFormation, and AWS CDK.

• Strong hands‑on AWS CDK and TypeScript expertise , including authoring L2/L3 constructs, stack composition, reusable IaC patterns, cross‑account deployments, landing zones, and enterprise security guardrails.

• Proven experience delivering enterprise cloud migration and application modernization , including rehosting, replatforming and modernization, with strong container expertise across Docker, ECS/Fargate, EKS, Kubernetes and Helm.

• Strong CI/CD and DevSecOps engineering experience , including designing and standardizing pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI, combined with experience implementing IAM, cloud‑security guardrails, CSPM, and automated compliance controls.

• Demonstrated consulting and client‑facing delivery experience , including architecture leadership, technical workshops, executive and engineering stakeholder communication, and structured knowledge transfer or coaching that builds sustainable client engineering capability.

These will help you succeed

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional and/or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional certification.

• Experience with ECS and Fargate modernization , including task‑definition patterns, service autoscaling, ECR integration, and Fargate Spot optimization.

• Experience with AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) methodologies and cloud migration programs in financial services, banking, or other regulated industries.

• Familiarity with Terraform , particularly translating or evolving Terraform‑based infrastructure patterns into AWS CDK/TypeScript constructs, along with exposure to Azure or Google Cloud.

• Experience with FinOps and cloud‑cost governance , including tagging governance and reserved‑capacity planning.

Compensation

$165,000- $194,000

This position is eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans. The U.S. template identifies compensation as mandatory for specific states where legally required.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision and life insurance

• 401(k) plan and contributions

• Employee stock purchase plan

• Employee assistance program

• 10 paid holidays plus PTO

• Paid parental leave and fertility assistance

• Learning and development certifications and programs

Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.