Job Title: Agile Project Manager (IT)
Experience Required
8+ years of experience in IT project management, with strong Agile delivery experience
Role Summary
The Agile Project Manager will lead the successful delivery of IT projects using Agile methodologies. The role involves close collaboration with global clients and distributed teams, requiring fluency in one foreign language to support international programs and stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end delivery of Agile IT projects, ensuring alignment to business outcomes
- Facilitate Agile ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Reviews, and Retrospectives
- Work closely with Product Owners to manage backlogs, priorities, and release plans
- Remove delivery impediments and proactively manage risks, dependencies, and issues
- Coordinate across cross-functional teams (engineering, QA, DevOps, business stakeholders)
- Track velocity, delivery metrics, and sprint progress; ensure transparency through reports and dashboards
- Ensure adherence to Agile best practices, governance, and quality standards
- Communicate status, risks, and milestones clearly to senior stakeholders and clients
- Support change management and continuous improvement across teams
Required Skills & Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience as an Agile Project Manager / Scrum Master / Delivery Manager
- Strong hands-on experience with Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe preferred)
- Solid understanding of SDLC, CI/CD, and modern software delivery practices
- Strong stakeholder and client management skills
- Experience managing distributed or multi-location teams
- Proficiency with Agile tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence
Foreign Language Requirement (Mandatory – Any One)
- Italian
- Spanish
- German
- Korean
- Japanese
(Ability to communicate professionally with clients or teams in the chosen language is required.)
Soft Skills
- Strong facilitation and servant-leadership mindset
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Ability to manage ambiguity and drive outcomes
- Comfortable working with global and multicultural teams
Proactive, structured, and delivery-focused
What we offer
- The chance to work with impact. Here, you’re empowered to bring your biggest thinking to help our company and clients improve everyday life.
- Ownership over your career. Stay at the top of your game through our award-winning learning and development ecosystem. And when your ambitions change or we offer new opportunities, we help you pivot by providing reskilling, on-the-job learning and guidance to find new roles that might be a better fit.
- The opportunity to thrive on a high caliber team with heart. We celebrate each other’s experiences and perspectives and promote a sense of belonging through our affinity groups and diversity and inclusion initiatives.
- A comprehensive total rewards package, including a competitive salary and a pension plan with matching contributions.
- Flexible health and financial benefits to support you and your eligible dependents—from day one.
- True work-life balance. Be at your best through paid time off, flexible work arrangements, volunteering opportunities, social events, and so much more.
About us
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is an AI Builder and technology services provider, building the bridge between AI investment and enterprise value by building full-stack AI solutions for our clients. Our deep industry, process and engineering expertise enables us to build an organization’s unique context into technology systems that amplify human potential, realize tangible returns and keep global enterprises ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at www.cognizant.com or @cognizant.
Other employment-related information
Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer. Your application and candidacy will not be considered based on race, color, sex, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, provincial or local laws.
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Language requirements vary depending on roles, but we ask that all candidates have basic English proficiency for company-wide communications purposes. For roles based in Quebec, professional English proficiency is required, as you’ll deliver services to and collaborate with stakeholders outside the province who may not speak French.
