Program Director

3 days ago

Irving, United States Cognizant Full time

Program Director (On-site)

Cognizant’s Digital Engineering
Our practice is seeking a highly qualified Program Director. Our Developers have a passion for high-quality, reliable, and maintainable code. You will work side by side with product managers, designers, and clients, making decisions together to quickly deliver valuable working software to clients and their users. Our developers are agile and retrospective, and not afraid to identify what we’re doing wrong, so we can fix it, so we can improve on it. Above all, we judge success by the success of our team and the happiness of our customers.

Location: Irving, TX.

**Candidate must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future**

Responsibilities

• Defining project scope, goals, and deliverables that support business objectives in collaboration with the senior leadership team and internal collaborators.
• Establishing effective and appropriate project governance for a project.
• Producing and maintaining a project plan while conducting the project within constraints of the framework used by different delivery teams.
• Developing full-scale project plans and associated communications documents.
• Planning and scheduling project timelines and landmarks using appropriate tools.
• Estimating the resources and participants required to achieve project goals.
• Ensuring proper financial management of the project and risk management by documenting all risks and employing an effective mitigation strategy.
• Excellent organization and presentation skills.
• Firm knowledge of project management methodologies and tools.
• Ability to implement and support complex enterprise software systems.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Excellent vendor management and negotiation skills.
• Ability to influence and foster an environment of shared accountability.
• Ability to collaborate with people, processes, and systems.
• Ability to be flexible and highly adaptive in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 15 plus years in strategy, operations, process consulting, team member management, project/ program delivery within legacy modernization or digital transformations.
• Project/Program training and certifications (PMI/SAFe 5.0/Prince II).
• Experience in delivering at least 3 or more complex programs involving teams across multiple geographies.
• Experience in senior partner management, communication, and relationship.
• Experience being part of deal solutioning and identifying relevant risks.
• Can present solutions from the Program Management standpoint.
• Experience in managing client partners across IT, VMO, and business.
• Adept with multicultural; multi-geo working teams and collaborators.
• Experience in contract management.
• Program delivery experience involving 3 or more service lines.
• Experience in delivering Transformational commitment, productivity goals, offshoring commitment.
• Experience in delivering domain capability services or niche technology capabilities or new technologies to the market.
• Experience in leading/managing structured deals, takeover/acquisition, or divesture programs.
• Education: MBA or equivalent experience or Master’s degree strongly preferred; Bachelor’s degree required.


Travel: 0-5%

Why Choose Cognizant?
Our associates enjoy robust benefits and training opportunities from our industry recognized, award winning Academy team. You will have access to hundreds of technical trainings to keep your abilities fresh and have opportunities to acquire certifications on the newest technologies.

If you became comfortable with ambiguity, delight by change, and excel through autonomy, we’d love to hear from you

Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer provider and committed to creating a diverse environment. We consider all applicants without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, age, marital and family status, disabilities, sexual orientation or preference, veteran status or any other classification protected by state, federal or local law.

About Cognizant:
Headquartered in the U.S, Cognizant leverages a highly flexible business model, a flawless global delivery network, and deep domain expertise to deliver to a long list of world-class companies that are leaders in their own space.

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