This role sits at the heart of Cognizant's strategic engagement with one of the world's leading enterprise technology companies. As a Principal Technical Lead, you will represent the highest level of ITSI expertise within our delivery team — with direct client visibility and significant influence over platform outcomes.
About the Role
We are looking for a Principal Technical Lead to own critical ITSI escalations, drive platform optimisation, and lead a team of engineers delivering outstanding service intelligence outcomes. This is a senior role for a technically exceptional individual who can operate at both the strategic and hands-on level.
What You Will Do
- Lead resolution of critical ITSI escalations with end-to-end ownership and high customer satisfaction
- Provide hands-on technical guidance to Senior Engineers and Tech Leads for complex KPI failures, service health degradation, and event correlation issues
- Conduct advanced RCA using ITSI diagnostic data, logs, and performance metrics; deliver actionable insights and preventive solutions
- Collaborate directly with enterprise customers to drive incident resolution and improve platform adoption
- Oversee ITSI optimisation initiatives including KPI tuning, service modelling, and dashboard performance
- Validate product updates, patches, and enhancements; align with real-world use cases and operational needs
- Deliver and enhance technical training programs based on product changes, RCA learnings, and field trends
- Mentor engineers and conduct knowledge-sharing sessions to improve troubleshooting efficiency
What You Bring
- Deep expertise in KPI design, service modelling, episode review, and event aggregation
- Strong SPL and search optimisation knowledge
- Experience with Python and Shell scripting for automation
- Prior experience in a technical leadership or managerial role
- Splunk Certified Admin and Splunk ITSI Certified Admin (Legacy preferred)
Technical Skills Splunk ITSI · SPL · AWS/Azure/GCP · Python · Shell Scripting · Linux
What we offer
- The chance to work with impact. Here, you’re empowered to bring your biggest thinking to help our company and clients improve everyday life.
- Ownership over your career. Stay at the top of your game through our award-winning learning and development ecosystem. And when your ambitions change or we offer new opportunities, we help you pivot by providing reskilling, on-the-job learning and guidance to find new roles that might be a better fit.
- The opportunity to thrive on a high caliber team with heart. We celebrate each other’s experiences and perspectives and promote a sense of belonging through our affinity groups and diversity and inclusion initiatives.
- A comprehensive total rewards package, including a competitive salary and a pension plan with matching contributions.
- Flexible health and financial benefits to support you and your eligible dependents—from day one.
- True work-life balance. Be at your best through paid time off, flexible work arrangements, volunteering opportunities, social events, and so much more.
About us
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is an AI Builder and technology services provider, building the bridge between AI investment and enterprise value by building full-stack AI solutions for our clients. Our deep industry, process and engineering expertise enables us to build an organization’s unique context into technology systems that amplify human potential, realize tangible returns and keep global enterprises ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at www.cognizant.com or @cognizant.
Other employment-related information
Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer. Your application and candidacy will not be considered based on race, color, sex, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, provincial or local laws.
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Language requirements vary depending on roles, but we ask that all candidates have basic English proficiency for company-wide communications purposes. For roles based in Quebec, professional English proficiency is required, as you’ll deliver services to and collaborate with stakeholders outside the province who may not speak French.
