DWP Engineering Lead

Cognizant; Wayzata (MN); On-site; USD 95,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant's Cloud, Infrastructure, and Security Services Practice in Atlanta, GA is seeking a DWP Engineering Lead to provide accountable leadership and delivery for the DWP Engineering Lead function, ensuring reliable execution and governance across the Digital Workplace platform.

You will own the engineering roadmap for Microsoft 365 and related tools, drive platform configuration, testing, release readiness, and upgrades with minimal disruption, while maintaining runbooks and

Qualifications

• 12 to 16 years of relevant professional experience.
• Demonstrated experience in the primary and secondary skill areas listed above.
• Strong understanding of enterprise service delivery, governance, risk, and change controls.

Responsibilities

• Own the engineering roadmap and technical delivery for Microsoft 365 and associated Digital Workplace platforms.
• Lead platform configuration, integration design, testing, release readiness, and production implementation.
• Coordinate upgrades for Microsoft Teams, SFTP services, and related workplace tools with minimal disruption.
• Define access-control patterns, privileged-access practices, and platform configuration standards.
• Lead root-cause analysis for major incidents and ensure corrective actions are implemented.
• Ensure changes comply with approved change-management, security, and compliance controls.
• Partner with architecture, operations, security, service management, and application teams.
• Maintain engineering documentation, operating runbooks, and knowledge-transfer materials.

Skills

Microsoft 365 configuration

Integration leadership

Identity and access controls

SFTP upgrades

Microsoft Teams upgrades

Job description

About the group:

Cognizant's Cloud, Infrastructure, and Security Services Practice (CIS), is all about accepting digital transformation by driving core modernization holistically across layers. We help customers transform infrastructure and workplace to meet the constantly evolving needs of the digital era. Our broad approach delivers key results for our customers by achieving cloud driven modernization and workplace and operational transformation to own the business in a secure environment.

Role:

DWP Engineering Lead

Location:

Atlanta, GA

Role Purpose

Provide accountable leadership and delivery for the DWP Engineering Lead function, ensuring reliable execution, effective governance, stakeholder alignment, and continuous improvement across the assigned technology and service scope.

Skill Alignment

Primary Skills: Microsoft 365 configuration, integration leadership, identity and access controls, and upgrades for SFTP, Microsoft Teams, and related tools.

Secondary Skills: Root-cause analysis, change management, access control, and compliance.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the engineering roadmap and technical delivery for Microsoft 365 and associated Digital Workplace platforms.
• Lead platform configuration, integration design, testing, release readiness, and production implementation.
• Coordinate upgrades for Microsoft Teams, SFTP services, and related workplace tools with minimal disruption.
• Define access-control patterns, privileged-access practices, and platform configuration standards.
• Lead root-cause analysis for major incidents and ensure corrective actions are implemented.
• Ensure changes comply with approved change-management, security, and compliance controls.
• Partner with architecture, operations, security, service management, and application teams.
• Maintain engineering documentation, operating runbooks, and knowledge-transfer materials.

Required Knowledge and Experience

• 12 to 16 years of relevant professional experience aligned with the role responsibilities and technology scope.
• Demonstrated experience in the primary and secondary skill areas listed above.
• Strong understanding of enterprise service delivery, governance, risk, and change controls.
• Ability to work across geographically distributed teams, customers, and delivery partners.
• Strong communication, documentation, analytical problem-solving, and stakeholder-management skills.

Key Stakeholder Interfaces

• Customer and business stakeholders.
• Infrastructure, engineering, architecture, security, and operations teams.
• Service management, project management, commercial, and finance functions.
• Technology vendors and delivery partners.

Success Measures

• Delivery against agreed service, project, quality, and governance commitments.
• Timely management of risks, issues, dependencies, and escalations.
• Stakeholder confidence, clear communication, and accurate reporting.
• Continuous improvement, standardization, and

Compensation

We are offering between $95,000 - $115,000. Applications will be accepted until Sep 25, 2026. Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in US without requiring employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.

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.

Please note, this role is not able to offer visa transfer or sponsorship now or in the future