Senior Transition PMO Lead — IT Infra & Cloud

Cognizant; Pierre (SD); 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 to establish and run the Transition Management Office for large-scale IT infrastructure and managed services transitions. You will govern reporting, financial tracking, risk management, and milestone oversight across multiple workstreams.

You will partner with Transition Directors, Managers, and client stakeholders to ensure successful transition programs involving Service Desk, Digital Workplace, Hosting, Cloud, Network, Security, and Storage

Qualifications

• Experience leading Transition Management Office (TMO) programs.
• Proven ability to produce executive dashboards and status reports.
• Knowledge of governance, risk, and issue management.

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

Tools

AWS

Azure

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 reporting, financial tracking, risk management, and milestone oversight across multiple workstreams.

You will partner with Transition Directors, Managers, and client stakeholders to ensure successful transition programs involving Service Desk, Digital Workplace, Hosting, Cloud, Network, Security, and Storage