Infra Program Manager: IT Migration & Delivery Leader

Cognizant; Eagan (MN); On-site; USD 113,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical-Dental-Vision-Life

Paid time off

401(k) plan

Disability cover

Parental leave

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an Infra Technical Program Manager in Eagan, MN to drive large-scale IT Infrastructure programs from planning through implementation onsite. You will manage budgets, resources, and schedules, coordinating internal teams and third-party partners to ensure on-time, quality delivery.

The role requires extensive PM experience, formal certification, and a strong grasp of core IT infra components, risk management, and stakeholder communication.

Qualifications

• 8+ years project management experience with IT Infrastructure technologies.
• Completed formal Project Management training and certification.
• Conceptual knowledge of main IT Infrastructure components (server, storage, network, data, and applications).
• Good negotiation, communication and presentation skills.
• Experience in platform and data center migrations and consolidations.
• Experience in Agile/Scrum
• Experience in enterprise applications, solutions and data center infrastructures.
• Strong customer-interaction skills.
• Ability to quickly establish credibility and excitement with key customer personnel, as well as work collaboratively and in a hands-on manner with technical professionals.

Responsibilities

• Leads the successful delivery of complex customer IT Infrastructure projects from planning, design to implementation.
• Manages the project from start to completion including the resolution of project risks and issues.
• Manages small to medium or a portion of larger, more complex customer IT Infrastructure projects.
• Provides leadership and management of the project team.
• Ensures project objectives and performance metrics are achieved.
• Ensures that project deliverables meet the required quality standards and are accepted by the customer.
• Responsible for the creation and updating of the project schedule and plan with financial, resource and material requirements.
• Responsible for regular customer and internal project status and project financial reporting.
• Responsible for organizing and leading project team and project governance team meetings.
• Accountable for the Project Budget.
• Participates in the preparation of proposals and agreements.
• Oversees project staff including project engineers, both on- and off-shore team, vendors, partners or subcontractors.
• Presents service business value to customers for new or existing business.
• Capturing key Lessons learnt and Best Practices which can be used to improve migration delivery performance
• Working closely with customer teams and Cognizant customer account teams across the key engagement accounts.
• Continuously focuses on project delivery excellence and high level of customer satisfaction.
• Build tight working relationship with CIS TS offshore delivery teams.
• Good business judgment, a comfortable, open communication style, and a willingness and ability to work with customers and teams.

Skills

PM leadership

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Communication

Agile/Scrum

Education

PM certification/training

Tools

Prince2/PMI methodology

Agile/Scrum practices

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an Infra Technical Program Manager in Eagan, MN to drive large-scale IT Infrastructure programs from planning through implementation onsite. You will manage budgets, resources, and schedules, coordinating internal teams and third-party partners to ensure on-time, quality delivery.

The role requires extensive PM experience, formal certification, and a strong grasp of core IT infra components, risk management, and stakeholder communication.