Leading at Cognizant

This is a Leadership role at Cognizant. We believe how you lead is as key as what you deliver. Cognizant leaders at every level: Drive our business strategy and inspire teams around our future. Live the leadership behaviors, leading themselves, others and the business. Uphold our Values, role modelling them in every action and decision. Nurture our people and culture, creating a workplace where all can thrive.

At Cognizant, leadership transcends titles and is embodied in actions and behaviours. We empower our leaders at every level to drive business strategy, inspire teams, uphold our values, and foster an inclusive culture.

The Role

The Corporate Real Estate and Workplace Services (CREWS) organization enables Cognizant’s business growth through the planning, development, delivery and management of world-class workplace environments. As Cognizant continues to expand and modernize its workplace portfolio, CREWS plays a critical role in ensuring safe, scalable, sustainable and employee-centric facilities across India.





We are seeking a Senior Director – Construction Management to provide enterprise-level leadership across large-scale construction, redevelopment, workplace transformation and fit-out programs. This role will lead the execution of strategic real estate investments while ensuring alignment with business priorities, operational readiness, employee experience, sustainability objectives and governance requirements.

The role is pivotal in ensuring that all projects are delivered with rigorous controls across scope, cost, schedule, quality, statutory compliance, risk management and operational handover readiness. The successful candidate will combine technical expertise, commercial acumen and executive leadership to deliver transformational workplace infrastructure programs across India.

Every choice we make aligns to our vision: to become the pre-eminent technology services partner to the world’s top companies.

At Cognizant,

📌 Senior Director (Chennai)
🏢 Cognizant
📍 Chennai