Frontier Transformation Lead
About the role
As a Frontier Transformation Lead, you will make an impact by leading the transformation of a global engineering workforce toward AI-native ways of working and accelerating the adoption of frontier capabilities across client engagements. You will work collaboratively with senior business, delivery, solutioning, operations, talent, and capability leaders to translate AI offerings and accelerators into new ways of working, strengthen workforce capability, and enable outcome-based delivery.
In this role, you will:
- Lead the transformation of software engineering talent toward AI-native roles and ways of working, including career pathing, reskilling, certifications, and capability development.
- Drive the adoption and diffusion of AI offerings, assets, toolkits, and accelerators into live client engagements, working closely with sales, solutioning, and account management teams.
- Build and scale frontier delivery teams and capability communities, enabling effective deployment of talent across new and existing client opportunities.
- Own workforce planning, staffing, fulfilment, utilization, and talent mobility, partnering across a highly matrixed global organization to align capability supply with business demand.
- Lead and influence senior stakeholders to accelerate workforce transformation, AI adoption, and the transition toward scalable, outcome-based delivery models.
Work model: Work from Office
At Cognizant, we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible, and we are here to support a healthy work-life balance through our various wellbeing programs. Based on this role’s business requirements, this is an onsite position requiring 4 days a week in a client or Cognizant office in [Chennai/Hyderabad/Bangalore/Mumbai].
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.
What you need to have to be considered
- 20+ years of experience in IT services, including 12+ years leading talent, capability, workforce, or delivery organizations across large and complex global environments.
- Demonstrated experience leading enterprise-scale workforce transformation, including career pathing, reskilling, certification, and transition toward AI or emerging-technology capabilities.
- Strong delivery and transformation leadership, with the credibility to drive changes in ways of working across live client accounts in partnership with sales, solutioning, and delivery organizations.
- Proven experience managing workforce planning, staffing, fulfilment, utilization, bench, and talent mobility at significant scale.
- Strong understanding of Generative AI, Agentic AI, AI-native engineering roles, and emerging AI-enabled delivery models.
These will help you stand out
- Experience owning a large-scale workforce strategy or capability community of 2000-3000 professionals.
- Demonstrated ability to lead large, distributed talent populations through senior leadership layers and drive measurable capability transformation.
- Experience taking new intellectual property, accelerators, or technology capabilities into live client environments and embedding them into delivery.
- Strong executive stakeholder management experience across business, sales, delivery, operations, HR, and technology organizations.
- Experience building enterprise reskilling, certification, talent mobility, or AI capability programs that connect workforce transformation with business demand.
We're excited to meet people who share our mission and can make an impact in a variety of ways. Don't hesitate to apply, even if you only meet the minimum requirements listed. Think about your transferable experiences and unique skills that make you stand out as someone who can bring new and exciting things to this role.
コグニザントについて
コグニザント（NASDAQ: CTSH）は、AI Builderおよびテクノロジーサービスプロバイダーとして、お客様にフルスタックのAIソリューションを構築することで、AI投資と企業価値を結ぶ架け橋となっています。業界、ビジネスプロセス、エンジニアリングに関する当社の深い専門知識を活かし、組織固有のビジネス環境をテクノロジー・システムに組み込みます。これにより、人間の可能性を最大限に引き出し、確かな成果を実現するとともに、急速に変化する世界においてグローバル企業が常に一歩先を行くための支援を行っています。 詳細については、cognizant.ai をご覧ください。
雇用に関する追加情報
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