Product Engineering Lead (Remote)

Product Engineering Lead | Cognizant | Australia

Cognizant (Nasdaq-100: CTSH) is one of the world’s leading professional services companies, transforming clients’ business, operating and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build and run more innovative and efficient businesses. 

Role Summary: The Product Engineering Lead will drive the end-to-end development and operation of multiple technology applications within a specific domain, leading teams of 50-150 engineering professionals organized as cross functional Agile PODs. This leader will embody the principles of a modern product engineering organisation, focusing on continuous delivery, business engagement, and end-to-end product technology ownership. The role is central to transforming the group into a high-performing product engineering organisation that values engineering excellence and is fully aligned with business and customer priorities.

What does success look like? 

• Product-Centric Leadership: Champion a product-first mindset, where teams are empowered to build, run, and continuously improve applications that meet customer and business needs.
• Engineering Guidance and Direction: Lead multiple cross functional Agile POD engineering teams, providing technical guidance, coaching, and support to ensure best practices in software engineering, scalability, and reliability.
• Drive End-to-End Ownership: Manage Agile PODs that own their respective product from development through production. Ensure engineering teams have clear accountability for build, deployment, and run responsibilities.
• High-Performing Team Creation: Foster a culture of high performance and continuous improvement, with teams striving for elite performance metrics in line with DORA (DevOps Research and Assessment) standards.
• Modern  Practices: Promote a culture of Experience Led, Modern Applications (Microservices, APIs, Cloud Native, Headless) and Modern Engineering (Full Stack Engg, DevSecOps, Infra as Code, SRE, SDET)
• Strategic Prioritisation: Work closely with business leaders to prioritise features and improvements, balancing immediate needs with long-term capability growth and strategic objectives.
• Experience with Distributed Teams: Proven experience working effectively with geographically distributed teams, maintaining high standards of collaboration and productivity in asynchronous environments.
• Ability to Groom Teams, Succession Planning etc: Develop strategies that can scale effectively, enabling teams to execute through clear delegation and empowering leaders within the group to own and drive their areas.
• Nice to Have : Data-Driven, Customer-Focused Mindset: Use data to drive decisions and continually deepen customer understanding, translating insights into actionable outcomes that improve the customer experience and product quality.
• Nice to Have: Customer Engagement and Alignment: Foster close partnerships with business stakeholders to align on priorities and ensure that engineering efforts are tightly coupled with customer needs and business outcomes.
• Nice to Have: Deep Understanding of Project to Product Principles: Beyond a basic framework shift from project-based to product-focused work, the ideal candidate should have thoroughly engaged with Project to Product by Dr. Mik Kersten. This includes a deep understanding of its key movements, such as Flow Metrics, the Flow Framework, and other approaches to measure and maximise value delivery. The candidate should be able to apply 

Note: We are willing to consider candidates currently based in Australia who are interested in or willing to relocate to India.

Why join Cognizant? Joining Cognizant will give you the opportunity to learn and collaborate with some of the most talented people in the industry, while having your finger on the pulse of emerging industry trends and working on the cutting edge of technology in your field of expertise. We recognize that our people contribute their best when they are treated as valued contributors; which is why we are committed to providing flexible working arrangements and maintaining a diverse and professional workforce, promoting an inclusive environment.

Next steps: If you feel this opportunity suits you, or Cognizant is the type of organisation you would like to join, we want to have a conversation with you! Please apply directly with us by following the links and prompts. For a complete list of open opportunities with Cognizant, visit Cognizant Careers.

Cognizant is committed to providing Equal Employment Opportunities. Successful candidates will be required to undergo a background check.

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