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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
31 open roles
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Listed pay typically runs
$137,000–$194,000
across 28 roles with salary data.
As a Program Delivery Director in Charlotte, NC, you will lead the modernization of an enterprise data ecosystem by migrating complex legacy platforms to AWS, focusing on services like Glue, Redshift, Aurora, EMR, Kinesis, Lambda, and Lake Formation. Your day-to-day involves shaping migration roadmaps, building high-performance delivery teams, and ensuring executive-level stakeholder confidence through clear communication of technical progress and business impact. You will also establish data governance frameworks using tools such as Collibra to ensure compliance and trust in enterprise data assets. Ideal candidates have over 18 years of experience in data engineering and program delivery, with a strong track record in AWS-based cloud transformations and deep expertise in modern data architecture principles including Data Lakehouse and open table formats like Apache Iceberg.