Senior Transition PMO Lead for IT Infra & Cloud Programs

Cognizant; Baton Rouge (LA); On-site; USD 117,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) plan

Paid holidays

Paid Time Off

Disability Insurance

Parental Leave

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Transition PMO to establish and run the Transition Management Office for large-scale IT infrastructure and managed services transitions. You will govern, report, track milestones, and provide executive visibility across multiple workstreams including Service Desk, Cloud, and Security.

Collaboration with Transition Director and client stakeholders is essential. The role focuses on governance, risk management, and delivering integrated transition plans, with

Qualifications

• Experience leading PMO for large IT transition programs.
• Proven governance, reporting, and milestone oversight across multiple streams.
• Ability to coordinate across Service Desk, Digital Workplace, Hosting, Cloud, Network and Security domains.

Responsibilities

• Set up and manage the Transition Management Office (TMO) processes.
• Define governance, reporting schedules, and review meetings.
• Organize executive reviews, steering committee meetings, and transition status meetings.
• Ensure compliance with transition methodology, quality standards, and project requirements.
• Maintain transition documents, repositories, and knowledge records.
• Create and manage integrated transition plans, schedules, and milestones.
• Track progress, dependencies, risks, and critical activities across all transition workstreams.
• Coordinate activities across multiple infrastructure towers.
• Monitor phase-gate and toll-gate completion requirements.
• Drive ownership and timely completion of transition deliverables.
• Prepare and publish daily, weekly, and monthly status reports.
• Develop executive dashboards, KPIs, and progress scorecards.
• Consolidate updates from all towers and provide leadership visibility on transition progress

Skills

Program & Transition Management

TMO

Program Governance

PMO Leadership

Milestone Management

Risk & Issue Management

Executive Reporting

Change Control

Resource Tracking

Tools

AWS

Azure

PMO Tools

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Transition PMO to establish and run the Transition Management Office for large-scale IT infrastructure and managed services transitions. You will govern, report, track milestones, and provide executive visibility across multiple workstreams including Service Desk, Cloud, and Security.

Collaboration with Transition Director and client stakeholders is essential. The role focuses on governance, risk management, and delivering integrated transition plans, with