Leading at Cognizant

This is a Leadership role at Cognizant. We believe how you lead is as significant 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 modeling 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 behaviors. We empower our leaders at every level to drive business strategy, inspire teams, uphold our values, and foster an inclusive culture.

About The Role

As a Principal - Enterprise AI Strategy & Transformation you will make an impact by setting the strategic direction for AI-augmented delivery or the AI-era operating model across the enterprise. You will serve as Cognizant’s senior Frontier authority, partnering directly with C-suite clients to co-design AI transformation strategies, govern frontier-model evaluation, adversarial-AI risk and responsible-AI practices,



and shape the direction of a Frontier practice. You will also maintain the learning community, methodologies, and gold standards of the capability while serving as an external domain authority and intellectual anchor for the program.

In This Role, You Will

Set the strategic direction for AI-augmented delivery or the AI-era operating model across the enterprise.
Co-design AI transformation strategies directly with C-suite client stakeholders and produce enterprise transformation blueprints.
Define evaluation frameworks for frontier-model deployment, including red-team protocols, safety benchmarks, and responsible-AI standards.
Govern adversarial-AI risk and AI safety policy, and lead incident-response strategy at the enterprise perimeter.
Own the direction of a Frontier practice and help structure outcome-based commercial models.
Maintain the Frontier learning community, methodologies, and

📌 Principal – Enterprise AI Strategy (Chennai)
🏢 Cognizant
📍 Chennai