$90000 - $100000 Year
Monday to Friday
Day shift
Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
· Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
· 401(k) plan and contributions
· Long-term/Short-term Disability
· Paid Parental Leave
· Employee Stock Purchase Plan
About Cognizant’s Digital Engineering Practice:
At Cognizant Digital Engineering, a small cross functional team comprised of a Product Manager, an Architect, Full-Stack Developers, UI/UX designers and Big Data analysts builds higher quality software faster siloed individuals working independently. Small, nimble engineering teams generate collective empathy and comradery, thus increasing their ability to anticipate unforeseen development scope changes and maintain high quality deliverables. Across our US Studio system or within client development sites, our Digital Engineering teams ideate and develop innovative cloud-based solutions following a Lean-Agile process with DevOps culture. Working in Cognizant Digital Engineering provides DevOps engineers consistent opportunities to push digital boundaries while growing their exposure to transformational technologies.
The Role:
Cognizant is looking for an experienced and innovative Project Manager to serve our diverse base of global clients. As a member of our team, you will build cutting edge, cloud-based software that powers modern business. An ideal candidate is someone who enjoys working in a diverse, collaborative, geographically distributed team. Similarly, the ideal candidate is an expert engineer who values the “team”, drives continuous improvement and is unafraid to challenge the legacy status quo with creative cloud-based solutions.
Location: Farmington, Connecticut
Responsibilities:
Full project life cycle ownership: successful project delivery will include full implementation from initiation to deployment for one major or several minor initiatives simultaneously.
Provide leadership for project team by building and motivating team members to meet project goals, adhering to their responsibilities and project milestones.
Manage all aspects of multiple related projects to ensure the overall program is aligned to and directly supports the achievement of strategic objectives.
Report on project success criteria results, metrics, test and deployment management activities.
Work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment demonstrating teamwork, innovation, and excellence.
Participate in establishing practices, templates, policies, tools, and partnerships to expand and mature these capabilities for the organization.
Prepare estimates and detailed project plan for all phases of the project.
Procure adequate resources to achieve project objectives in planned timeframes.
Manage the day-to-day project activities and resources and chairs the project management team meetings.
Provide status reporting regarding project milestones, deliverable, dependencies, risks & issues, communicating across leadership
Excellent communication skill and stake holder management skills
CX-Scrum Master
Agile PLM
Manufacturing Oper-Manlog
5-8 years experience in managing complex projects
5-8 years experience in using Agile methodology and scrum execution
Experience in using Azure DevOps to manage project
Experience in working in multi-vendor project environment
Manufacturing
On going position
General Location, within a limited area