Senior Transition PMO Lead: Governance & Delivery

Cognizant; Des Moines (IA); On-site; USD 117,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus PTO

401(k) plan and contributions

Disability insurance

Paid Parental Leave

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Transition PMO to establish and operate the Transition Management Office for large-scale IT infrastructure and managed services transitions.

You'll provide governance, financial tracking, risk management, and executive visibility across multiple transition workstreams, coordinating with stakeholders across Service Desk, Digital Workplace, Datacenter, Cloud, and Networking teams.

Qualifications

• Program management and transition leadership experience.
• Familiarity with Transition Management Office (TMO).
• Strong program governance and PMO leadership skills.
• Proven ability to manage milestones and schedules.
• Experience in risk and issue management across programs.
• Experience producing executive-level reports and dashboards.
• Change control discipline across complex transitions.
• Solid resource tracking and capacity planning.

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 to establish and operate the Transition Management Office for large-scale IT infrastructure and managed services transitions.

You'll provide governance, financial tracking, risk management, and executive visibility across multiple transition workstreams, coordinating with stakeholders across Service Desk, Digital Workplace, Datacenter, Cloud, and Networking teams.