Transition PMO

Cognizant; Baton Rouge (LA); On-site; USD 117,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) plan

Paid holidays

Paid Time Off

Disability Insurance

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, report, track milestones, and provide executive visibility across multiple workstreams including Service Desk, Cloud, and Security.

Collaboration with Transition Director and client stakeholders is essential. The role focuses on governance, risk management, and delivering integrated transition plans, with

Qualifications

• Experience leading PMO for large IT transition programs.
• Proven governance, reporting, and milestone oversight across multiple streams.
• Ability to coordinate across Service Desk, Digital Workplace, Hosting, Cloud, Network and Security domains.

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

TMO

Program Governance

PMO Leadership

Milestone Management

Risk & Issue Management

Executive Reporting

Change Control

Resource Tracking

Tools

AWS

Azure

PMO Tools

Job description

Applicants must be authorized to work in the US without sponsorship. Please note, this role is not able to offer visa transfer or sponsorship now or in the future.

The Transition Project Management Office is responsible for establishing and operating the Transition Management Office (TMO) for large-scale IT Infrastructure and Managed Services transitions. The role provides governance reporting financial tracking risk management milestone oversight and executive-level visibility across multiple transition workstreams. The Senior Transition PMO partners closely with the Transition Director Transition Managers Tower Leads Service Delivery Managers Solution Architects and Client Stakeholders to ensure successful execution of transition programs involving Service Desk Digital Workplace Hosting Cloud Network Security Backup & Storage and Infrastructure Operations services.

What you’ll do in the role:

• 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

Required Skills

• Program & Transition Management
• Transition Management Office (TMO)
• Program Governance
• PMO Leadership
• Milestone Management
• Risk & Issue Management
• Executive Reporting
• Change Control
• Resource Tracking

Infrastructure Knowledge

• Service Desk
• Digital Workplace / EUC
• Datacenter & Hosting
• Cloud (AWS/Azure)
• Network Services
• Security Operations
• Collaboration Services
• Backup & Storage

Cognizant is offering between $117,000-$135,000 offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:

• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
• Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
• 401(k) plan and contributions
• Long-term/Short-term Disability
• Paid Parental Leave

Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.

Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.