Cognizant announced the launch of the Cognizant Ace Team Program, a strategic initiative designed to build a cohort of top engineering minds who will deliver cutting-edge digital transformation for clients and play a central role in the company's evolution into an AI builder organisation.

The Cognizant Ace Team is structured as a combination of a selective hiring program, an elite talent pathway and a centrally governed engineering community aligned to Cognizant's advanced capability strategy.

The program is designed to build a community of high-potential engineers who will work on real client challenges using AI-native tools, modern architectures and outcome-driven methods. Ace Team members are expected to be deployed in focused, high-impact teams and be looked upon to get critical initiatives off the ground, contributing directly to pioneering and emerging technology solutions that drive meaningful business outcomes for clients.

With an India-focused launch, the Ace Team will serve as the cornerstone of Cognizant's shift into an AI builder organisation, fueling transformation across the company's three-vector strategy of Hyperproductivity, Industrialising AI and Agentification through a high-calibre, AI-ready engineering force. The program is designed to enable the creation of high-value, niche AI offerings and support the execution of complex, large-scale technology initiatives, while accelerating innovation across the ecosystem. Its impact will include accelerating time to market, advancing end-to-end modernisation, and the development of future-ready platforms that support scale, reliability and sustained innovation.

Rajesh Varrier, President – Global Operations and Chairman & Managing Director, Cognizant India, said, "The launch of the Cognizant Ace Team program marks a critical step in strengthening our engineering depth as enterprises move rapidly from AI experimentation to real-world execution. Delivering measurable, scalable AI outcomes increasingly depends on AI-ready skills and strong engineering fundamentals. Through Ace Team, we are building a differentiated talent engine that directly supports our three-vector strategy of Hyperproductivity, Industrialising AI and Agentification, intending to enable us to take AI from concepts to production and apply it at scale across industries."