Manager, Technical Frontier Educator

About the roleAs a Manager, Technical Frontier Educator, you will make an impact by independently designing and delivering complex, high-stakes technical learning programs across entry-level talent, Cognizant associates and mentoring other educators across the organization. You will be a valued member of the Corporate Learning & Development team and work collaboratively with the in-house Frontier Educator ecosystem.In this role, you will

• Own full-cycle of technical learning programs from curriculum architecture to independent training delivery, including advanced capstone projects and enterprise-grade simulations across all proficiency levels
• Mentor and coach Frontier Educators and Teaching Assistants through facilitation reviews, quality audits and feedback sessions to raise the bar across the learning ecosystem
• Lead curriculum design and content quality for key technology stacks, ensuring materials are current, industry-relevant and deployment-ready
• Champion AI integration across learning programs by identifying opportunities to scale technical facilitation, assessment and personalization using AI tools
• Develop and maintain hands-on competency across Cognizant products and platforms, partnering with product owners to design and deliver platform-specific trainingWork modelAt Cognizant, we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible, and we are here to support a healthy work-life balance though our various wellbeing programs. Based on this role's business requirements, this is an onsite position requiring five days a week in a Cognizant office in Chennai, Siruseri, Tamil Nadu.The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. Rest assured; we will always be clear about role expectations.What you need to have to be considered
• Ten to 13 years of experience in technical education, engineering or advanced facilitation roles
• Full stack hands-on proficiency in at least two of the programming languages (like Java, .NET, C#, Python, Mainframe) across frontend, backend, database, cloud, DevOps and testing(OR)
• Expertise in at least two of the below product skill areas:
• Salesforce (SFDC) Platform & Ecosystem,
• Microservices & Distributed Systems Architecture
• Cybersecurity
• IT Infrastructure Services (ITIS) including ITSM (ITIL-based practices), infrastructure operations
• Active proficiency in GenAI tools, AI-assisted coding, LLMs & prompt engineering, RAG, AI Agent Development & Agent creation, Agentic AI, LLM Orchestration Frameworks (LangChain/LangGraph/ CrewAI/ AutoGen), AI Automation & Workflow Orchestration