Cognizant Team Lead Operations Salaries by 1000+ Employees (Updated 2025)

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Designation	Avg Annual Salary	Open Jobs
Team Lead Operations 7 - 16 years exp. (1.1k salaries)	₹4.4 L/yr - ₹14 L/yr	2 job openings
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Programmer Analyst 0 - 8 years exp. (55.4k salaries)	₹2.4 L/yr - ₹9.6 L/yr	5 job openings
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Senior Associate 3 - 15 years exp. (48.3k salaries)	₹9 L/yr - ₹27.1 L/yr	29 job openings
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Senior Processing Executive 0 - 8 years exp. (28.6k salaries)	₹1.8 L/yr - ₹9 L/yr	16 job openings
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Technical Lead 2 - 15 years exp. (17.6k salaries)	₹5.9 L/yr - ₹24 L/yr	1 job opening
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Project Associate 2 - 9 years exp. (16.6k salaries)	₹5.9 L/yr - ₹19 L/yr	159 job openings
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Software Engineer 0 - 7 years exp. (15.6k salaries)	₹2.2 L/yr - ₹14.8 L/yr	15 job openings
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Processing Executive 0 - 4 years exp. (14.1k salaries)	₹1 L/yr - ₹5.1 L/yr	5 job openings
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Programmer Analyst Trainee 0 - 2 years exp. (8.4k salaries)	₹1 L/yr - ₹4.5 L/yr
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Project Manager 8 - 20 years exp. (7.7k salaries)	₹13 L/yr - ₹40.2 L/yr	68 job openings
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Senior Systems Engineer 0 - 7 years exp. (7.4k salaries)	₹1.5 L/yr - ₹8.1 L/yr
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Team Lead 1 - 18 years exp. (7.3k salaries)	₹5.2 L/yr - ₹16 L/yr	10 job openings
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Software Developer 0 - 8 years exp. (5.9k salaries)	₹2.5 L/yr - ₹16.6 L/yr
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Senior Project Associate 4 - 14 years exp. (5.1k salaries)	₹9.5 L/yr - ₹32.9 L/yr
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Softwaretest Engineer 1 - 7 years exp. (5.1k salaries)	₹2.1 L/yr - ₹11 L/yr
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Junior Software Engineer 0 - 4 years exp. (5k salaries)	₹2.7 L/yr - ₹8.4 L/yr
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Senior Process Associate 0 - 9 years exp. (4.8k salaries)	₹1.4 L/yr - ₹8 L/yr
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Senior Software Engineer 2 - 13 years exp. (4.5k salaries)	₹5.7 L/yr - ₹29 L/yr	2 job openings
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SME 3 - 13 years exp. (4.2k salaries)	₹2.5 L/yr - ₹10 L/yr	1 job opening
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Associate 0 - 9 years exp. (72.4k salaries)	₹5.1 L/yr - ₹16 L/yr	14 job openings
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Manager 8 - 20 years exp. (6k salaries)	₹13 L/yr - ₹39 L/yr	4 job openings
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3.2

Rated by 132 employees for salary & benefits

Team Lead Operations in Bangalore / Bengaluru

Full Time

Customer Success, Service & Operations Department

4.0

• posted on 29 May 2018

4.0

for Salary and Benefits

Likes

Amazing workplace to learning and well organized and gives opportunities to us to explore and improve process better. Good work life balance

Salary - Good

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Dislikes

Decent compensation. No work pressure understands employee needs professionally and personally

Team Lead Operations in Kharadi

Full Time

Consulting Department

1.0

• posted on 13 May 2022

1.0

for Salary and Benefits

Likes

Encourages certification.

Skill development - Excellent

Dislikes

...adeep (EON)- never give any reward or appraisal. Complete waste of career years. Overtime doesn't pay. So left the company.

Salary - Bad

+3 more

Team Lead Operations in Chennai

BFS Department

2.0

• posted on 14 Sep 2021

4.0

for Salary and Benefits

Likes

Salary package is good alone

Salary - Good

Dislikes

Company is not good for people who can't do hard work as well who can't be a multitasking . No work life balance , no employee happiness. Higher grade people are working like they went back 4-5 years back

Skill development - Poor

+5 more

Process Specialist in Greater Noida

Full Time

Customer Success, Service & Operations Department

3.0

• posted on 16 Dec 2024

2.0

for Salary and Benefits

Likes

Work culture is excellent. Mixed culture makes it really good work environment. Free hand in New Projects for getting new profile.

Job security - Excellent

+2 more

Dislikes

Salary as per industry standards is less, Increment as per previous followups has not been great. But favouritism plays it's part.

Salary - Poor

Process Specialist in Gurgaon / Gurugram

Full Time

Customer Success, Service & Operations Department

1.0

• posted on 09 Oct 2024

1.0

for Salary and Benefits

Likes

Only salary on time..

Dislikes

Dont destroy your career. CEO is one of the fool In the upper management There are those people who could get any job outside the cognizant. This is the one of the worst company their standard is like a lala company. Please focused on market demand profile do go here.

Salary - Bad

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Cognizant Salary FAQs

How much does Cognizant pay per year?

The average Cognizant salary ranges from approximately ₹0.2 Lakh to ₹0.2 Lakh per year for a Safety Engineer and ₹94 Lakhs to ₹96 Lakhs per year for a Senior Director Finance. Salary estimates are based on 1.1k Cognizant salaries received from various employees of Cognizant. Cognizant employees rate the overall salary and benefits package 3.2/5 stars.

What is the highest salary in Cognizant?

The highest-paying job at Cognizant is a Senior Director Finance with a salary of ₹94 Lakhs to ₹96 Lakhs per year. The top 10% of employees earn more than ₹18.23 lakhs per year. The top 1% earn more than a whopping ₹32 lakhs per year.

What is the minimum salary in Cognizant?

Minimum salary at Cognizant depends on the role you are applying for. For Processing Executive the minimum salary is ₹1 Lakh to ₹5.1 Lakhs per year, and for Programmer Analyst Trainee the minimum salary is ₹1 Lakh to ₹4.5 Lakhs per year and so on.

What is the salary package for freshers in Cognizant?

The average salary at Cognizant for freshers varies from ₹0.7 Lakh to ₹4 Lakhs per year for Information Technology Support Engineer and ₹11 Lakhs to ₹15 Lakhs per year for Senior Business Development Analyst.

What is the notice period for Team Lead Operations at Cognizant?

According to AmbitionBox, 56% of the Cognizant Team Lead Operationss reported a notice period of 2 Months, 21% reported a notice period of 15 days or less and the remaining reported other notice period durations. This is based on 287 responses on AmbitionBox in last 2 years.

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