PMO with release experience

Cognizant; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a PMO & Release Manager to drive PMO and Release Management duties across the Banking & Treasury Services Change Portfolio. The role covers program-level scheduling, annual planning, governance and cross-team coordination to ensure timely, controlled releases.

With 5+ years of hands-on delivery experience, you will manage release readiness, runbooks, and post-release issue triage, while aligning with auditing and governance standards.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of PMO and Release Management experience in financial services.
• Experience in governance, RAID logs and stakeholder communications.
• Familiarity with monthly/quarterly financial planning and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Program level scheduling including features by release.
• Annual planning, resource forecasting and maintenance.
• Initiative governance, RAID log maintenance, stakeholder updates.
• Project status reporting and governance updates.
• Coordinate release readiness materials and CRM processes.
• Prepare release decks and maintain runbooks.
• Oversee monthly release calendars; resolve dependencies and clashes.
• Lead release communications pre-/post-go/no-go.
• Coordinate deployment activities across capabilities and stakeholders.
• Document and audit release artefacts; track post-release issues.

Skills

Release management

Project management

Governance

Stakeholder coordination

Financial planning

Tools

Clarity PPM

Job description

The PMO & Release Manager will perform PMO and Release Management duties in line with the delivery of the Products within the Banking & Treasury Services Change Portfolio.

• Program level scheduling including features by release
• Annual planning , resource forecasting and maintenance
• Initiative level Governance, maintain central RAID log, support stakeholder communications
• Project Status Reporting and Governance updates
• Support Internal program Audit
• Coordinate the collation of Initiative release readiness material
• Financial tracking & reporting
• Financial planning and administration - monthly/quarterly Clarity portfolio management & reporting, Clarity admin support updates resource forecasting support, Task creation and resource addition through the year supporting implementation leads

Release Manager Responsibilities

• Aligned to directly coordinate the readiness and execution of monthly releases for the Enterprise Banking Module (EBM) Real-time balances program.
• Prepare, maintain, and govern the Monthly Release Calendar, ensuring dependencies are mapped; Proactively identify and resolve release clashes and dependency conflicts.
• Respond to release scheduling queries, resolve conflicts and facilitate release related forums and calls
• Support preparation of release decks, ensuring correct versions are used, changes are tightly controlled once baselined
• Create, maintain and track the Release runbook, facilitate reviews with the relevant stakeholders
• Orchestrate execution of the agreed runbook including opening and managing release chats
• Lead release communications covering pre-release readiness, Go/No-Go outcomes, post release confirmation and updates
• Coordinate release deployment activities across Capability, Technology, SQM and Business stakeholders
• Log and track post release issues, clearly recording ownership; Facilitate issue triage meetings to capture root causes and prioritise issues based on impacts
• Apply CRM processes consistently across releases, ensuring adherence to governance standards and audit expectations.
• Maintain and manage release documentation and folders, ensuring artefacts are organised, version controlled, and audit ready

Strong hands on end to end project delivery and system release management, with 5+ years experience is required.
Ideally this would be in financial services/banking.