Leading at Cognizant

This is a Leadership role at Cognizant. We believe how you lead is as important 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 Frontier Foundation Lead, you will make an impact by building the reusable intellectual capital of the Frontier Capability Unit (FCU) - the offerings, methodologies, accelerators, tools and assets that give SEG's AI-native engagement model its edge - and taking that capital to market and into client delivery. You will be a valued member of the Frontier Capability Unit team and work collaboratively with SEG Solutioning,



GSA, the IDU and Frontier Talent community, hyperscaler and model partners, industry analysts, and clients.

In This Role, You Will

• Own the offering and accelerator roadmap across Agentic Coding & ADLC, Autonomous Agents & Runtime and Vertical Solutions, including domain and hyperscaler-specific offerings, and sponsor the Garage / R&D; build of new assets and proof points ahead of client demand.
• Build and maintain delivery kits, composable tooling (MCP & Skills), delivery methodology and pod-design patterns consumed by the IDU and the Frontier Talent community, owning their availability and quality.
• Own the asset / IP register for the unit and the Enterprise Runtime & Governance standard that assets must meet before they are published for re-use.
• Supply estimation models, productivity guidance and Assurance & Evaluation proof points into recent and vendor-consolidation deals, a

📌 Frontier Foundation Lead (Chennai)
🏢 Cognizant
📍 Chennai