Principal Field Solution Engineer
Cognizant
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This role pays more than 75% of similar roles. Most pay $169,550–$225,125 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $225k versus about $197k for comparable roles.
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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 397 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $100,000–$135,000 across 262 roles with salary data.
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The Principal Field Solution Engineer serves as the technical anchor for the Engineering platforms portfolio, including Flowsource, Neuro AI Engineering, Neuro IT Operations, and Skygrade. This role involves partnering with sales and account teams to lead enterprise platform pursuits from qualification to close. Key responsibilities include conducting technical discovery, designing solution architectures, building tailored demonstrations, and driving proofs of concept to de-risk adoption. The successful candidate will utilize expertise in the AI-infused Software Development Lifecycle, Agent Development Lifecycle, and cloud modernization. Required skills include proficiency with hyperscalers like AWS, Microsoft, and Google, alongside AI-native providers like Anthropic and NVIDIA. The role solves complex engineering, AI, and cloud operations challenges by translating technical capabilities into demonstrable business outcomes through managed-services and outcome-based models.
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