It takes a lot to succeed in today’s fast-paced market, and Cognizant has become a leader in the industry. We love big ideas and even bigger dreams. We stand out because we put human experiences at the core. We help clients engage customers by envisioning and building creative products and services. We develop go-to-market strategies and invent entirely new business models, ensuring that every company we work with walks away with both encouragement and a plan. Everything we do at Cognizant we do with passion—for our clients, our communities, and our organization. It’s the defining attribute that we look for in our people.

 What do you need to succeed?

 Job Description:

• 6+ years of minimum experience.
• Experience with Endpoint Management platforms - Microsoft Endpoint Manager (Intune/SCCM)
• Create and maintain automated application deployment packages
• Develop software installation scripts and provide code review for complex software installations
• Develop/implement firm-wide downloads for firm supported workstations
• Create and deploy application software packages, using System Centre to all workstations
• Troubleshooting experience with desktop, laptop, printer, software issues
• Microsoft Azure – Work on M365 suite with applications such as Intune to manage endpoint devices
• Active Directory – Work on AD to manage Organizational Units, Group Policy Object expertise (GPO), and DNS

 Functional/Domain Expertise :

• Promoting and participating as a member of a strategically driven, cohesive team that reflects a team spirit that inspires and motivates exceptional performance. Fosters and promotes an environment that is focused on continuous improvements.
• Developing an appropriate understanding of our business goals to ensure that end user technologies are supporting those goals.
• Management of our fleet of endpoint technologies, planning upgrades over the product lifecycle.
• Managing the planning and implementation of the endpoint technology projects.
• Ensuring that technology solutions are designed, built, and maintained using industry best practices.
• Effectively managing vendor relationships.
• Able to stay current on emerging and mainstream technologies and industry trends.
• Should be an exceptional communicator with strong interpersonal and negotiation skills.
• Collaborative with the ability to effectively build inter-team relationships.
• Resilient in the face of obstacles or setbacks.
• An individual that possesses strong business acumen in the Life sciences industry.
• A leader with the ability to set direction, align, motivate and inspire others.
• 6+ years of IT infrastructure/software development/support roles with a broad range of exposure to all aspects of planning and analysis.
• Strong knowledge of managing a large fleet of desktop Windows operating systems & Microsoft products