About the role
In this role, you will:
- Own the discovery-phase schedule and drive all workstreams toward a common Architecture Review Board (ARB) readiness date.
- Coordinate cross-functional teams including Solution Architects, Business Analysts, Technical Leads, business stakeholders, and technical SMEs.
- Track and manage open items, dependencies, assumptions, risks, and key decisions impacting delivery readiness.
- Manage stakeholder communications, status reporting, and executive-level updates for both client and Cognizant sponsors.
- Prepare, coordinate, and manage ARB submission materials, reviews, approvals, and sign-off activities while supporting refinement of ROM estimates as discovery findings evolve.
Work model:
What you need to have to be considered
- 8+ years of experience managing delivery for enterprise technology programs.
- Proven experience managing through formal architecture, technical design, or governance review processes such as ARB, TDA, or equivalent.
- Strong program and project management skills with the ability to coordinate large cross-functional teams and multiple workstreams.
- Experience managing evolving scope, identifying ambiguity, escalating risks, and driving alignment across stakeholders.
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and reporting skills across both business and technical audiences.
These will help you stand out
- Experience within financial services, banking, payments, or related regulated industries.
- Experience supporting CPQ (Configure, Price, Quote), billing, or Quote-to-Cash (Q2C) transformation programs.
- Experience coordinating discovery and planning activities for large-scale transformation initiatives.
- Familiarity with platform modernization, legacy application retirement, and phased release planning.
- Ability to facilitate collaboration among business, architecture, technical, and governance stakeholders.
Salary and Other Compensation
About Cognizant:
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is an AI Builder and technology services provider, bridging the gap 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, drive tangible outcomes and keep global enterprises ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at cognizant.ai or @cognizant.
Additional employment information
Compensation 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.
Applicants may be required to attend interviews in person or by video conference. In addition, candidates may be required to present their current state or government issued ID during each interview.
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, state or local laws.












