Sr. Consulting Manager, Solutions Engineering

Cognizant Consulting is more than Cognizant’s consulting practice. We’re a global community of 5,000+ experts dedicated to helping clients reimagine their business. Blending our deep industry and technology advisory capability, we create innovative business solutions for Fortune 500 clients. And now, we’re looking for our next colleague who’ll join us in shaping the future of business. Could it be you?

As a Sr. Consulting Manager, Solutions Engineering you will make an impact by designing and delivering enterprise-scale AWS cloud solutions that enable complex application migration, modernization, and platform transformation.

You will be a valued member of the Solutions Engineering team and work collaboratively with AWS architects, Cognizant delivery leadership, and client engineering, platform, and product teams. This role combines hands‑on technical delivery with consulting leadership, requiring you to own architectural outcomes while helping client engineering teams build sustainable cloud and Dev Sec Ops  capabilities.

• Architect and deliver enterprise AWS cloud solutions aligned with AWS Well‑Architected principles, including landing zones, multi‑account architectures, networking, identity and access management, security, and platform engineering for complex financial‑services workloads.

• Lead cloud migration and application modernization initiatives
  , moving applications from on‑premises and legacy cloud environments to AWS, with emphasis on ECS/Fargate, container‑based services, serverless architectures, APIs, and cloud‑native modernization patterns.

• Design and build Infrastructure as Code using AWS CDK and Type Script , including reusable L2/L3 constructs, stack composition, cross‑account deployment patterns, AWS Organizations guardrails, and standardized ECS/Fargate service constructs.

• Engineer secure Dev Sec Ops  and CI/CD capabilities
  , including pipeline design and standardization, automated security and quality gates, IAM policies, AWS Config, Cloud Trail, Security Hub, CSPM tooling, and cloud compliance controls.

• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to client teams, leading discovery sessions, architecture reviews, technical workshops, paired‑programming sessions, and structured knowledge transfer to strengthen client capabilities across AWS, CDK/Type Script, Dev Sec Ops , ECS/Fargate, and cloud‑native engineering.

We strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role’s business requirements, this is a remote position open to qualified applicants in the United States. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work‑life balance through our various wellbeing programs.

The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. This may change based on the project you’re engaged in, as well as business and client requirements. Rest assured, we will always be clear about role expectations.

• 12+ years of hands‑on cloud and infrastructure engineering experience, including 5+ years focused on AWS
  , with deep architecture expertise across VPC, IAM, EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, AWS Organizations, Cloud Formation, and AWS CDK.

• Strong hands‑on AWS CDK and Type Script expertise
  , including authoring L2/L3 constructs, stack composition, reusable IaC patterns, cross‑account deployments, landing zones, and enterprise security guardrails.

• Proven experience delivering enterprise cloud migration and application modernization
  , including rehosting, replatforming and modernization, with strong container expertise across Docker, ECS/Fargate, EKS, Kubernetes and Helm.

• Strong CI/CD and Dev Sec Ops  engineering experience
  , including designing and…