Senior Transition PMO Lead for IT Infrastructure

Cognizant; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 117,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

401(k) plan and contributions

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Transition PMO in Columbus, OH to establish and run the Transition Management Office for large-scale IT infrastructure and managed services transitions. You will provide governance reporting, financial tracking, risk oversight, and executive-level visibility across multiple workstreams in areas such as Service Desk, Cloud, Data Center, and Security.

You will partner with Transition Director, Managers, Solution Architects, and client stakeholders to ensure successful

Qualifications

• Must have strong program and transition management experience.
• Experience leading PMO governance, reporting, and executive communications.
• Proven ability to track milestones, risks, and dependencies across multiple workstreams.

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

Transition Management Office (TMO)

Program Governance

PMO Leadership

Milestone Management

Risk & Issue Management

Executive Reporting

Change Control

Resource Tracking

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Transition PMO in Columbus, OH to establish and run the Transition Management Office for large-scale IT infrastructure and managed services transitions. You will provide governance reporting, financial tracking, risk oversight, and executive-level visibility across multiple workstreams in areas such as Service Desk, Cloud, Data Center, and Security.

You will partner with Transition Director, Managers, Solution Architects, and client stakeholders to ensure successful