Global Delivery Lead, Digital Transformation Programs

Cognizant; Sydney; On-site; AUD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant in Sydney is seeking a Delivery Lead for a Digital Transformation program. You will own end-to-end delivery, ensure scope, schedule, budget, quality, and business outcomes, and lead cross-functional, distributed teams across the engagement.

The role requires deep experience in Agile, SAFe, and hybrid delivery, with hands-on work on data platforms such as Redshift and Databricks. You will drive governance, risk management, and continuous improvement to ensure client success and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information technology, business, or a related discipline; a master’s degree or MBA is advantageous.
• Typically, 20+ years of technology delivery experience, including 10+ years leading large, complex, multi-team programs or managed-service engagements.
• PMP, PRINCE2, SAFe, Scrum, or equivalent delivery certification is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own integrated delivery plans, milestones, dependencies, release schedules, resource allocations, and acceptance criteria across concurrent workstreams.
• Lead delivery teams, establish clear accountability, remove impediments, resolve conflicts, coach leaders, and promote a collaborative, high-performance culture.
• Maintain effective governance through status reviews, steering forums, dashboards, KPIs, SLAs, RAID logs, change control, and timely executive reporting.
• Manage client relationships, translate business priorities into executable plans, provide transparent progress updates, and address concerns and escalations promptly.
• Control budgets, forecasts, utilization, staffing, vendor performance, and contractual commitments to achieve agreed financial and commercial outcomes.
• Ensure compliance with architecture, security, regulatory, quality, and operational-readiness standards throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Identify and mitigate delivery risks, coordinate recovery plans, conduct root-cause analysis, and drive measurable continuous improvement.
• Support proposals, estimations, solution shaping, mobilization, and transition activities for new and expanding engagements.

Skills

Momentum Model

Scaled Agile

Global delivery leadership

Redshift & Databricks

Data migration: Protect to Duck Creek

ADLC implementation

Agentic AI STTM validation

SDLC & DevOps

Stakeholder management

Forecasting & budgeting

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / Engineering / IT

MBA advantageous

Job description

Cognizant in Sydney is seeking a Delivery Lead for a Digital Transformation program. You will own end-to-end delivery, ensure scope, schedule, budget, quality, and business outcomes, and lead cross-functional, distributed teams across the engagement.

The role requires deep experience in Agile, SAFe, and hybrid delivery, with hands-on work on data platforms such as Redshift and Databricks. You will drive governance, risk management, and continuous improvement to ensure client success and