Job purpose
· As a Cloud Project Manager, you will be responsible to deliver projects that span across one or more business units. Will manage resources, schedules, and financials throughout the project's
· life cycle. This includes management of issues, risks, and project change requests to ensure successful and on-time project delivery.
· The Cloud Project Manager will run the project on a day-to-day basis, coordinate between delivery teams, make sure that the project produces the required deliverables within the specified
· constraints of time and cost and achieve the desired results.
Responsibilities:
· Collaborate with stakeholders to document project scope, deliverables, goals, risks, blockers, success measures, and estimated resources needed.
· Ensure that projects remain in-scope and meet budgetary, scheduling, and quality requirements.
· Create, manage, and distribute project communications artifacts like charters, schedules, and budgets.
· Provide project status updates at predetermined time intervals to all stakeholders.
· Communicate routinely to management, customers, project team members, and other stakeholders, actively soliciting and addressing customer and project team feedback.
· Assist in business development efforts to create project proposals, RFPs, estimates, and schedules.
· Set and monitor project budgets and staffing requirements.
· Ensure adherence to legally binding requirements.
· Plan, schedule, monitor, and report on activities related to the project, including subcontractor monitoring.
· Establish key project criteria metrics.
· Develop project control and reporting procedures and manage changes in operational plan.
· Plan and lead status review meetings, which may include internal team members, vendors, and customers.
· Understand interdependencies between technology, operations, and business needs.
· Continue professional development (technical and personal) in order to keep abreast of emerging technologies, methods, and best practices.
· Resolve technical and operational issues as required.
Experience:
· Bachelor’s degree in project management, business management, or related area of study.
· 5-7 years of experience as a Technical Project Manager or similar position responsible for defining and managing project scope, timelines, profitability, and effective delivery of products or services.
· 2 years’ experience dealing with Cloud Financial Management (FinOps).
· Demonstrated understanding of Project Management processes, strategies, and methods
· Excellent time management and organizational skills and experience establishing guidelines in managing critical and complex projects.
· Strong sense of personal accountability regarding decision-making and leading department teams
· Experience working in a high-level collaborative environment, promoting a teamwork mentality and applying analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
· Ability to predict challenges and seek to proactively head-off obstacles.
· Experience in managing delivery of customer-facing and internally facing products or services.
· Experience in delivering projects using Agile, PMI or PMP framework.
· Intermediate to advanced proficiency with industry-standard word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation software programs.
Technical skills
· PMI or PMP certification or similar from an accredited organization SCRUM Certified
· Azure or AWS Fundamentals Certified
· Min 1 year of hands-on Cloud Technical Experience
· Cloud FinOps Certification preferred
· Familiarity using Power BI Reporting Tool
Soft skills / transversal skills
· Effective communication skills to foster better teamwork, collaboration, and customer relations.
· Emotional intelligence (EI) to recognize and manage emotions, both in oneself and others. It involves empathy, self-awareness, and the ability to handle interpersonal relationships with tact and sensitivity.
· Critical thinking to evaluate options and implement strategies to overcome obstacles. To approach challenges with confidence and contribute innovative ideas to your organization.
· Leadership skills in motivating, inspiring, and influencing others to achieve common goals.
· Time management and organizational skills to effectively manage time, prioritize tasks, meet deadlines, and maintain a healthy work-life balance.
About Cognizant:
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) engineers’ modern businesses. We help our clients modernize technology, reimagine processes and transform experiences so they can stay ahead in our fast-changing world. Together, we're improving everyday life. See how at www.cognizant.com or @cognizant.
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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.
If you have a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening or submit an application, please email [email protected] with your request and contact information.
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.
