Project Manager

Tata Consultancy Services; Parsippany-Troy Hills (NJ); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary incentive

Medical coverage

Parental leave

401K plan

Training reimbursement

Vacation & Holidays

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services in Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ seeks a senior Project Manager with 12+ years in IT delivery and 8+ years leading cross‑functional initiatives. You will own delivery across scope, schedule and budget, drive governance structures, and coordinate multiple workstreams across architecture, data, QA, and security.

Experience with SAFe/Agile, change and risk management, and executive reporting is essential.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in IT delivery with 8+ years in project management.
• Led at least two large cross-functional projects to completion.
• Experience across migrations, digital transformations, platform implementations.

Responsibilities

• Own accountability for scope, schedule, budget, quality, and risk from initiation to go-live.
• Define project roadmaps and integrated delivery plans with milestones.
• Lead governance bodies, RAID logs, and weekly status reporting.
• Coordinate architecture, engineering, data, QA, security, and business readiness workstreams.

Skills

Agile delivery

Waterfall delivery

Governance

Project planning

Vendor mgmt

Multi-workstreams

Change management

Risk management

SAFe scaling

Stakeholder mgmt

Tools

Jira

MS Project

Confluence

Smartsheet

Job description

• 12+ years in IT delivery with a minimum of 8 years in a dedicated Project manager role — must have successfully led at least two large-scale, cross-functional projects to completion across different project types such as system migrations, digital transformations, platform implementations, or new product launches


• Strong command of both Agile and Waterfall delivery methodologies — ability to apply the right framework to the right context, and to manage hybrid projects where different workstreams operate under different delivery models simultaneously


• Expertise in project governance — ability to set up and run a full governance structure from scratch: RAID log, steering committee, change control board, escalation matrix, and status reporting cadence tailored to the project's complexity and stakeholder expectations


• Proficiency in project planning and tracking tools — Jira, MS Project, Confluence, Smartsheet, or equivalent — and advanced reporting using Excel or Power BI to build executive-level dashboards and project health views


• Financial management skills — experience owning a project budget, tracking actuals vs. forecast on a T&M or fixed-price basis, managing scope change requests with impact assessments, and presenting financial status to senior leadership


• Proven experience managing large vendor delivery partnerships — defining SOWs, tracking against contractual deliverables, running governance reviews with vendor leadership, and holding delivery teams accountable without creating adversarial dynamics


• Ability to manage and coordinate multiple parallel workstreams — architecture, engineering, data, QA, security, infrastructure, and business readiness — ensuring dependencies are mapped, sequenced, and tracked across the full project lifecycle


• Experience with organizational change management — identifying business impact of project changes, developing stakeholder communication plans, managing resistance, and ensuring teams and end users are ready before go‑live


• Strong experience with risk management — identifying project-level risks early, building credible mitigation plans, quantifying risk exposure, and escalating only what genuinely requires SLT intervention with recommended options attached


• SAFe or equivalent scaled Agile experience — familiarity with PI Planning, Project Increment objectives, ART-level ceremonies, and multi-team dependency management for Agile projects running at scale


• Own full accountability for project delivery across scope, schedule, budget, quality, and risk — from project initiation through delivery, go‑live, and stabilization; the project's success or failure is this role's responsibility


• Define the project roadmap and integrated delivery plan at the outset — break the project into logical phases or waves, identify the critical path, map all workstream dependencies, and establish milestones that stakeholders can hold the team to


• Establish and operate project governance from day one — steering committee cadence, RAID log, change control board, decision log, and status reporting framework; governance must be operational before delivery teams begin work, not retrofitted after problems appear


• Manage vendor and partner delivery organizations — own the SOW and contractual obligations, run regular governance reviews, enforce SLA commitments, accelerate vendor performance issues through the right channels, and document all delivery decisions


• Drive cross‑functional workstream alignment — c hair dependency resolution sessions, maintain the integrated dependency log, assign ownership to every cross‑team dependency, and track resolution to closure before it becomes a blocker


• Own project financial management — track T&M actuals and forecast weekly, manage change requests through formal scope change process with full impact assessment on budget, schedule, and risk, and present financial health to SLT with transparency


• Facilitate and own Agile project ceremonies where applicable — PI Planning, System Demos, Inspect and Adapt workshops — ensuring all teams have clear objectives, dependencies mapped, and capacity planned for each increment


• Proactively manage the RAID log — identify risks before they become issues, assign owners, review mitigation progress weekly, and elevate items that exceed the project's risk tolerance with clear options and a recommended course of action


• Lead change management activities — assess the organizational impact of the project, build a stakeholder communication plan, ensure business readiness activities (training, process change, cutover preparation) are tracked as project deliverables not afterthoughts


• Be the single accountable point of contact for project health — provide weekly written status reports and participate in steering committee meetings with an honest, metric‑backed view of progress, risks, and decisions needed; never present a rosier picture than reality supports

Job Description

• 12+ years in IT delivery with a minimum of 8 years in a dedicated Project manager role — must have successfully lead
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Roles & Responsibilities

• Own full accountability for project delivery across scope, schedule, budget, quality, and risk — from project initiation through delivery, go‑live, and stabilization; the project's success or failure is this role's responsibility

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Salary Range-$100,000-$140,000 a year

TCS Employee Benefits Summary

• Discretionary Annual Incentive.


• Comprehensive Medical Coverage: Medical & Health, Dental & Vision, Disability Planning & Insurance, Pet Insurance Plans.


• Family Support: Maternal & Parental Leaves.


• Insurance Options: Auto & Home Insurance, Identity Theft Protection.


• Convenience & Professional Growth: Commuter Benefits & Certification & Training Reimbursement.


• Time Off: Vacation, Time Off, Sick Leave & Holidays.


• Legal & Financial Assistance: Legal Assistance, 401K Plan, Performance Bonus, College Fund, Student Loan Refinancing.