Senior AWS Cloud Transformation Lead

Cognizant; Charleston (WV); Remote; USD 119,000 - 136,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays + PTO

401(k) plan and contribution

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is hiring an AWS Cloud Program Manager to lead enterprise AWS cloud transformation and modernization initiatives. This remote role focuses on migration, infrastructure, security, DevOps, and operations with cross-functional collaboration and rigorous governance.

Ideal candidates bring 12+ years of IT experience and 8+ years leading cloud/infrastructure programs, plus strong executive communication and risk management skills.

Qualifications

• 15+ years IT experience with 8+ years leading cloud, infrastructure, migration, or modernization programs.
• Healthcare, payer, regulated-industry, or large enterprise transformation experience preferred.
• Proven leadership of large enterprise cloud or infrastructure transformation programs with multiple workstreams.
• Strong executive stakeholder management, communication, facilitation, risk management, and issue-resolution skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead AWS cloud transformation delivery across architecture, engineering, security, networking, migration, DevOps, and operations workstreams.
• Own integrated planning, milestones, RAID management, dependency tracking, governance cadence, and stakeholder communication.
• Coordinate across multiple programs and teams to remove blockers, align priorities, and maintain delivery momentum.
• Partner with cloud architects and engineering leads to ensure delivery aligns with AWS standards, security expectations, and business goals.
• Prepare executive status updates, steering committee materials, escalation summaries, and decisions required for program progress.
• Promote strong delivery discipline, documentation quality, operating model maturity, and continuous improvement.

Skills

AWS cloud

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Governance

Agile/Waterfall

Executive reporting

Risk management

Cloud security

Education

AWS Solutions Architect - Professional

AWS DevOps Engineer - Professional

PMP

SAFe

AWS Cloud Practitioner

Tools

Enterprise reporting tools

Job description

Cognizant is hiring an AWS Cloud Program Manager to lead enterprise AWS cloud transformation and modernization initiatives. This remote role focuses on migration, infrastructure, security, DevOps, and operations with cross-functional collaboration and rigorous governance.

Ideal candidates bring 12+ years of IT experience and 8+ years leading cloud/infrastructure programs, plus strong executive communication and risk management skills.