Senior IT Program & Project Management Analyst

Conduent; Dadri; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Conduent is seeking a Senior IT Program & Project Management Analyst to support planning, governance, reporting, and delivery of IT projects. You will partner with delivery teams, stakeholders, product owners, and technology leaders to ensure successful initiatives, providing PMO leadership, risk management, and executive communications.

The role involves creating integrated project plans, dashboards, and KPIs, while monitoring budgets and dependencies to keep initiatives on track and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business Administration, Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in IT project management, PMO, or project governance roles.
• Experience supporting large-scale enterprise technology initiatives.
• Strong understanding of project management methodologies including Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, and SAFe.
• Experience managing cross-functional and geographically distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Support execution of multiple IT projects across the organization.
• Establish and maintain project governance processes, standards, and controls.
• Facilitate project reviews and status reporting.
• Ensure compliance with project management methodologies and organizational standards.
• Track project performance against scope, schedule, budget, and quality objectives.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, roadmaps, milestones, and dependencies.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams to ensure deliverables are completed on schedule.
• Monitor project progress and proactively identify schedule variances.
• Support release planning, implementation planning, and delivery readiness activities.
• Maintain project risk, issue, action item, and decision logs.
• Facilitate identification, assessment, and mitigation of delivery risks.
• Escalate critical issues and dependencies to leadership with recommended corrective actions.
• Monitor mitigation plans through resolution.
• Prepare executive-level project status reports.
• Develop dashboards, KPIs, and portfolio metrics.
• Present project health, risks, achievements, and delivery forecasts to leadership.
• Generate management reports using project management and reporting tools.
• Assist with project budget monitoring and financial reporting.
• Track project expenditures and identify budget variances.
• Collaborate with business leaders, technology teams, vendors, and customers.
• Facilitate meetings, workshops, planning sessions, and governance reviews.
• Drive stakeholder alignment on priorities, dependencies, and delivery commitments.
• Ensure effective communication across all levels of the organization.
• Identify opportunities for improving project delivery processes.
• Drive adoption of Agile, Scrum, SAFe, and project management best practices.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives across the PMO.

Skills

Project management

Project planning

Risk and issue management

Stakeholder management

Financial and resource management

Executive reporting

Requirements tracking

Change management

Vendor management

Communication skills

Analytical and problem-solving skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS/Engineering/Business

Tools

Microsoft Project

Azure DevOps

Microsoft Office

Microsoft Power BI

Job description

Through our dedicated associates, Conduent delivers mission-critical services and solutions on behalf of Fortune 100 companies and over 500 governments - creating exceptional outcomes for our clients and the millions of people who count on them. You have an opportunity to personally thrive, make a difference and be part of a culture where individuality is noticed and valued every day.

Job Track Description

The Senior IT Program & Project Management Analyst is responsible for supporting the planning, execution, governance, reporting, and delivery of IT projects. This role partners with delivery teams, business stakeholders, product owners, and technology leaders to ensure successful delivery of IT initiatives.

The position provides PMO leadership, project controls, portfolio reporting, risk and issue management, schedule governance, resource planning support, and executive-level communications while driving consistency with organizational project management standards and best practices.

Key Responsibilities

Project Governance

• Support execution of multiple IT projects across the organization.
• Establish and maintain project governance processes, standards, and controls.
• Facilitate project reviews and status reporting.
• Ensure compliance with project management methodologies and organizational standards.
• Track project performance against scope, schedule, budget, and quality objectives.

Planning and Delivery Management

• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, roadmaps, milestones, and dependencies.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams to ensure deliverables are completed on schedule.
• Monitor project progress and proactively identify schedule variances.
• Support release planning, implementation planning, and delivery readiness activities.

Risk, Issue, and Dependency Management

• Maintain project risk, issue, action item, and decision logs.
• Facilitate identification, assessment, and mitigation of delivery risks.
• Escalate critical issues and dependencies to leadership with recommended corrective actions.
• Monitor mitigation plans through resolution.

Reporting and Executive Communication

• Prepare executive-level project status reports.
• Develop dashboards, KPIs, and portfolio metrics.
• Present project health, risks, achievements, and delivery forecasts to leadership.
• Generate management reports using project management and reporting tools.

Financial Management

• Assist with project budget monitoring and financial reporting.
• Track project expenditures and identify budget variances.

Stakeholder Management

• Collaborate with business leaders, technology teams, vendors, and customers.
• Facilitate meetings, workshops, planning sessions, and governance reviews.
• Drive stakeholder alignment on priorities, dependencies, and delivery commitments.
• Ensure effective communication across all levels of the organization.

PMO Process Improvement

• Identify opportunities for improving project delivery processes.
• Drive adoption of Agile, Scrum, SAFe, and project management best practices.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives across the PMO.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business Administration, Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in IT project management, PMO, or project governance roles.
• Experience supporting large-scale enterprise technology initiatives.
• Strong understanding of project management methodologies including Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, and SAFe.
• Experience managing cross-functional and geographically distributed teams.

Required Skills

• Project management
• Project planning and scheduling
• Risk and issue management
• Stakeholder management
• Financial and resource management
• Executive reporting and presentations
• Requirements tracking and traceability
• Change management
• Vendor management
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Preferred Tools Experience

• Microsoft Project
• Azure DevOps (ADO)
• Microsoft Office
• Microsoft Power BI

Preferred Certifications

• PMP (Project Management Professional)
• SAFe Agilist (SA)
• PRINCE2 Practitioner
• Scrum Master Certification

Conduent is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, creed, religion, ancestry, national origin, age, gender identity, gender expression, sex/gender, marital status, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, medical condition, use of a guide dog or service animal, military/veteran status, citizenship status, basis of genetic information, or any other group protected by law.