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Description
Engineering Director
As a Client Technology Director for ZoneDX in Cognizant, you will have a deep understanding of technology and be passionate about doing the right thing for the client and their customers' needs. By working in collaboration with clients and as part of a cross-functional leadership team, you will be responsible for delivering quality experiences built on tailored technical solutions that are customer-centric, evolvable and based on best practices principles. You will lead the vision and strategy of technology for your engagements, working with our architects to design effective solutions and oversee cross-functional teams in the building of those solutions.
You can expect to be involved in:
- Working as a strategic consultant and partner for the businesses we work with, setting their technology vision and strategy or optimising their current programmes of work. Build trust so that our clients value your opinions and seek your advice on their business, technology and brand issues.
- Actively seeking out potential new work and lead the technology response to all major briefs across a wide range of digital projects. You will make recommendations on team shape based on the requirements, deadlines and expected budget.
- Collaborating with the other engagement leads to ensure commercial targets are met and take responsibility for the overall quality and delivery of the experiences your teams create.
- Creating experience-led technical solutions, proposals, designs and specifications, identifying the right technologies to use, ensuring they are implementable and propose alternatives as necessary.You will ensure all solutions are testable, scalable, security-compliant and optimised
- Working across multiple programmes of work, empowering your teams to deliver effectively at speed while ensuring their health and happiness is a priority. Lead and manage your team effectively, recommending the correct make-up and balance of the technical team as engagements change.
To be successful in this role, you will demonstrate experience with the below:
- Experience of working with clients at all levels of an organisation with an ability to communicate technical ideas effectively in a business context to technical and non-technical people
- Exceptional leadership skills with the confidence and integrity to earn client and internal team's confidence and trust quickly
- People leadership experience with the ability to demonstrate experience coaching, developing and performance managing team members of all levels while empowering your direct reports to do the same
- Experience of working at the genesis of product and services, architecting MVPs to deliver business value at speed.
- You will be an innovative problem-solver who excels in ambiguity, with the ability to identify issues and deliver solutions quickly.
- A demonstratable ability to use best-practice patterns and principles to build web-based solutions on a variety of technology stacks. A broad knowledge of the skills required to build quality customer-facing solutions with a background in one specialist area (e.g. front-end, back-end, cloud engineering or quality assurance).
- Experience in at least one of the major cloud providers with an understanding of how to build solution that are highly available and observable.
- Experience with rapid accelerated deliveries using lean and agile methodologies (SCRUM, Kanban) and creating a DevOps enable CI/CD practices.
It would be a plus if you have experience with the below:
- Experience with CDDO (GDS) style engagements or experience in the Public Sector deliveries.
- Any experience working in a large corporate or Public Sector environment managing various stakeholders would be beneficial
