GCP Tech Lead: Cloud Solutions & Leadership

Cognizant; Parsippany-Troy Hills (NJ); Hybrid; USD 81,000 - 142,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

401(k) plan and contributions

Paid holidays + Paid Time Off

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Parental Leave

Job summary

Cognizant in Parsippany, NJ, seeks a Technical Lead for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to design, build, and deliver scalable cloud-based solutions. You will provide technical leadership across the software lifecycle and mentor engineering teams in a collaborative environment.

The role emphasizes strong GCP expertise, leadership, and drive for engineering excellence within Agile teams. Hybrid work with up to 3 days in-office per week is expected.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software development and tech delivery experience.
• Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering or related field.
• Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Experience leading technical teams and mentoring developers.
• Experience delivering cloud-native, enterprise-scale solutions.
• Familiarity with Agile development environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, and implementation of cloud-native solutions on GCP.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to development teams.
• Partner with stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable solutions.
• Drive engineering best practices, CI/CD, testing, and architecture standards.
• Design secure, highly available, resilient enterprise applications.
• Support cloud transformation, modernization, and migrations.
• Identify risks and develop mitigation strategies.
• Promote Agile delivery and continuous improvement.
• Contribute to solution architecture and technology roadmaps.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Agile

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

GCP

CI/CD

DevOps

Angular

.NET

Job description

Cognizant in Parsippany, NJ, seeks a Technical Lead for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to design, build, and deliver scalable cloud-based solutions. You will provide technical leadership across the software lifecycle and mentor engineering teams in a collaborative environment.

The role emphasizes strong GCP expertise, leadership, and drive for engineering excellence within Agile teams. Hybrid work with up to 3 days in-office per week is expected.