Senior Transition PMO Lead — IT Infrastructure Programs

Cognizant; Boston (MA); 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 the United States to establish and run the Transition Management Office for major IT infrastructure transitions. You will provide governance, financial tracking, risk management, and executive-level visibility across multiple transition workstreams.

The role partners with Transition Director, Tower Leads, Service Delivery Managers, Solution Architects, and Client Stakeholders to ensure on-time delivery of transitions across Service Desk, Digital

Qualifications

• Experience leading large IT transition programs that deliver complex outcomes.
• Strong governance, oversight, and reporting discipline.
• Ability to coordinate across multiple towers and stakeholders to maintain alignment.

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

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 the United States to establish and run the Transition Management Office for major IT infrastructure transitions. You will provide governance, financial tracking, risk management, and executive-level visibility across multiple transition workstreams.

The role partners with Transition Director, Tower Leads, Service Delivery Managers, Solution Architects, and Client Stakeholders to ensure on-time delivery of transitions across Service Desk, Digital