Release Train Engineer and Consulting Leader - Life Sciences

Cognizant; Pueblo Santiago Acahualtepec; Hybrid; MXN 1,500,000 - 2,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant Consulting in Mexico is seeking a Consulting Manager - Release Train Engineer to lead integrated planning, execution, and delivery coordination for the client's GMSx Manufacturing Workstream.

You will operate as a Release Train Engineer and Project Manager, coordinating stakeholders across manufacturing, quality, engineering, and vendor partners to deliver priority capabilities on schedule and with value.

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading complex transformation programs or agile release trains in pharmaceutical manufacturing, biotechnology, or similarly regulated life-sciences environments.
• Strong practical experience as a Release Train Engineer, Program Manager, Agile Program Lead, or equivalent role.
• Demonstrated delivery experience involving manufacturing digitalization, MES, electronic batch records, manufacturing execution, shop-floor systems, OEE, connected worker, or industrial data platforms.
• Familiarity with GMP, data integrity, validation/CSV principles, quality-system implications, and site implementation constraints.
• Proven ability to lead senior stakeholders and resolve cross-functional delivery issues in a fast-paced environment, with strong communication, facilitation, planning, and executive-reporting skills.

Responsibilities

• Establish and manage the integrated workstream plan, release roadmap, delivery cadence, resources, milestones, dependencies, risks, action items, and decisions, while facilitating agile planning and execution across multiple teams — including program increment planning, cross-team ceremonies, retrospectives, and delivery reporting.
• Coordinate stakeholders across Manufacturing, Quality, Training, Engineering, the client's Tech & Digital organization, Data Scientists, and site operations; and in conjunction with MES Program Leadership, oversee the MES of the Future implementation at the client site and coordinate the relevant Level 2 (L2) connectivity through the Manufacturing Data Fabric, recognizing these as critical dependencies for the workstream.
• Ensure Golden Batch and Connected Worker/OEE initiatives remain aligned to business outcomes, operational priorities, governance, and implementation readiness, while driving visibility and resolution of cross-functional dependencies, blockers, resourcing needs, and delivery risks.
• Support evaluation and prioritization of PAT opportunities for both the client Use Case and three-year roadmap, including vendor interaction, stakeholder alignment, decision preparation (business value and project costs), and integration into the broader roadmap.
• Produce concise executive-level status reporting (progress against outcomes, decisions required, risks, next steps); surface timely workstream status, milestones, dependencies, risks, and decisions to the PMO to support integrated program-level tracking and reporting; and promote consistent agile ways of working while adapting delivery practices to the needs of a regulated pharmaceutical manufacturing environment.
• Consistently demonstrate the Cognizant Way to Lead, which means operating with Personal Leadership (building trust, collaboration, and inclusion), Organizational Leadership (driving vision and purpose, demonstrating a strategic and enterprise mindset, and creating and communicating a bold direction that inspires purpose), and Business Leadership (exemplifying client focus, managing ambiguity with accountability and results, and operating with financial acumen).

Job description

Cognizant Consulting in Mexico is seeking a Consulting Manager - Release Train Engineer to lead integrated planning, execution, and delivery coordination for the client's GMSx Manufacturing Workstream.

You will operate as a Release Train Engineer and Project Manager, coordinating stakeholders across manufacturing, quality, engineering, and vendor partners to deliver priority capabilities on schedule and with value.