Strategic Transition PMO Lead for IT Infra & Cloud

Cognizant; Richmond (VA); 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 operate the Transition Management Office for large-scale IT infrastructure and managed services transitions. You will deliver governance reporting, financial tracking, risk management, and executive-level visibility across multiple workstreams.

You will work with Transition Directors, Tower Leads, and clients to ensure timely delivery across Service Desk, Cloud, Network, Security, and Storage.

Qualifications

• Program & Transition Management experience
• Experience with Transition Management Office (TMO)
• Strong program governance capabilities
• PMO leadership and steering committee experience
• Milestone management and tracking
• Risk and issue management
• Executive reporting experience
• Change control processes
• Resource tracking and coordination

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 management

TMO experience

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 will deliver governance reporting, financial tracking, risk management, and executive-level visibility across multiple workstreams.

You will work with Transition Directors, Tower Leads, and clients to ensure timely delivery across Service Desk, Cloud, Network, Security, and Storage.