Consulting Principal, Solutions Engineering Lead

Cognizant

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Work type
Remote
Location
New York, NY
Salary
$165,000–$194,000 / yr
Posted
6 days ago
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Confirmed live 3 days ago
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About Cognizant

Cognizant is a multinational IT services and consulting company offering digital transformation, technology, and business process services. It serves clients across financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and other industries worldwide.

Cognizant currently has 273 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Consulting Principal, Solutions Engineering Lead

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The Consulting Principal, Solutions Engineering Lead joins the Solutions Engineering team to design and deliver enterprise-scale AWS cloud solutions. This role involves leading cloud migration and application modernization initiatives, specifically moving workloads from on-premises or legacy environments to AWS. You will architect landing zones, multi-account structures, and networking while building Infrastructure as Code using AWS CDK and TypeScript. Key responsibilities include engineering secure DevSecOps and CI/CD capabilities using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI, and serving as a technical advisor for complex financial-services workloads. You will utilize tools like ECS, Fargate, Lambda, and Security Hub to implement cloud-native patterns. The work focuses on solving platform transformation problems by establishing sustainable engineering capabilities, automated security gates, and standardized deployment patterns for regulated industries.

Skills

AWS TypeScript AWS CDK ECS Fargate Kubernetes EKS Docker CI/CD DevSecOps Terraform GitHub Actions Jenkins GitLab CI Helm CloudFormation IAM VPC Lambda EC2 AWS Organizations CSPM FinOps

What you'll do

  • Architect and deliver enterprise AWS cloud solutions following Well-Architected principles for complex financial-services workloads.
  • Lead cloud migration and application modernization initiatives from on-premises or legacy environments to AWS.
  • Design and build Infrastructure as Code using AWS CDK and TypeScript to create reusable constructs and deployment patterns.
  • Engineer secure DevSecOps and CI/CD capabilities including automated security gates and cloud compliance controls.
  • Serve as a technical advisor by leading discovery sessions, architecture reviews, and technical workshops for client teams.
  • Provide structured knowledge transfer and coaching to build sustainable client engineering capabilities in cloud-native technologies.

What we're looking for

  • 15+ years of hands-on cloud and infrastructure engineering experience.
  • 5+ years of experience focused on AWS architecture across VPC, IAM, EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, AWS Organizations, CloudFormation, and AWS CDK.
  • Strong hands-on expertise in AWS CDK and TypeScript, including authoring L2/L3 constructs and reusable IaC patterns.
  • Proven experience delivering enterprise cloud migration and application modernization using Docker, ECS/Fargate, EKS, Kubernetes, and Helm.
  • Strong CI/CD and DevSecOps engineering experience using tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI.
  • Demonstrated consulting and client-facing delivery experience, including architecture leadership and technical workshops.
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional and/or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional (preferred).
  • Experience with AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) methodologies or experience with FinOps and cloud-cost governance (preferred).

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