Program Director

Cognizant's Digital Engineering practice is seeking a highly qualified Program Director with experience developing and building high-performing, scalable, enterprise applications. You will be part of a digital software team that works on high-demand applications. Our engineers have a passion for high-quality, reliable and maintainable code. You will work side by side with product managers, designers, and clients, making decisions together in order to quickly deliver valuable working software to clients and their users. Our engineers are agile and retrospective, and not afraid to identify what we're doing wrong, so we can fix it, and what we're doing right, so we can improve on it. Above all, we judge success by the success of our team and the happiness of our customers.

Cognizant Digital Engineering If you're like us, you've got big ideas. At Cognizant, we're exploring new ideas every day. We help industry leading companies reinvent their business models and innovate products that create new value-by connecting people with things, insights and experiences. Cognizant digital engineering designs, engineers and delivers digital products and experiences that drive digital-first business models. We offer the most comprehensive digital engineering expertise and client-centric methodology for sustainable innovation.

Location: Irving, TX

You must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.
Cognizant will not sponsor H-1B or other U.S. work authorization for this role.

Roles & Responsibilities :

• Defining/Refining Finance Model and Governance for key portfolio in Verizon business group including Budget/Resource Management and cost optimization.
• Facilitating/ Guiding the internal team on Headcount & Budget Finalization, Change control, Budget reduction & Expense reduction exercises.
• Strong focus on executing(planning and tracking), strategic workforce strategy to achieve portfolio objectives.
• Strong Vendor Governance focus - Program managing contingent labor Ramp up, Ensuring accurate and timely invoicing of vendor payments adhering to defined SLAs and Collaborate with delivery teams and Sourcing and proactively work on contract extensions and required approvals, close collaboration with finance team on SOW extensions
• Tracking & analyzing the key insights from Vendor Partners meeting and providing key insights to Vendor Performance Manager, Sourcing and other stakeholders and Collating feedback from relevant stakeholders on Vendor Performance across multiple parameters - quality, innovation, user experience, value generated, productivity, etc.
• Drive charter for employee enablement and engagement to enhance the overall employee experience.
• Program Managing all executive reviews and internal engagement events by ensuring participation, coordination and implementation.
• Facilitate branding and communication to instill pride and loyalty in employees
• Driving Innovation as a culture and supporting events like Hackathon etc.
• Executive summary with portfolio Data analysis and insights for continuous improvement of team and delivery operations.
• Reporting on key metrics related to People, Process & Technology.

Qualifications :

• Bachelor's degree or four or more years of experience
• From 18 to 26 years of relevant work experience
• Program management/ ITIL certifications
• Strong change champion and culture catalyst -organizing employee engagement meetings and events and listening to Voice Of Employee
• Expert in portfolio budget and finance management and tracking
• Knowledge of project management techniques and methods.
• Knowledge of productivity and program management tools and software's like :Jira, Confluence / Clarity, G Suite, slack , etc.
• Even better if you have one or more of the following:
• Bachelor's/Master's degree in Finance, Accounting, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Information Management.
• Quantitative, problem-solving, technical and analytical skills.
• Knowledge of operational and financial performance management measures, including implications for IT and Business strategy.
• Strong relationship management skills to interface with internal IT leaders, business leaders and external vendors.
• Strong vendor relationship management and coordination capabilities, ability to effectively handle and resolve disputes.
• Ability to build trust based relationships with vendors and other stakeholders.
• Strong communication, negotiation, and influencing skills.
• Strong presentation, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Desktop applications competency (e.g., Microsoft Office, Google Mail, Google Sheets, Google Docs, Google Drives, Google Slides, PPT, Excel, etc.)

Travel: 0-5%
Why Choose Cognizant?
It takes a lot to succeed in today's fast-paced market, and Cognizant Technology Solutions has become a leader in the industry. We love big ideas and even bigger dreams! We stand out because we put human experiences at the core. Our associates enjoy robust benefits and training opportunities from our industry-recognized, award-winning Academy team. You will have access to hundreds of technical trainings to keep your skillsets fresh and have opportunities to acquire certifications on the newest technologies.
Everything we do at Cognizant we do with passion-for our clients (fortune 100 companies), our communities, and our organization. It's the defining attribute that we look for in our people.
If you love ambiguity, excited by change, and excel through autonomy, we'd love to hear from you!

About Cognizant Digital Engineering
Well-designed software transcends digital technology, going beyond the fulfillment of basic requirements to focus instead on human needs. Within Cognizant Digital Engineering, we help clients develop software products that transform human insights into tangible, production-ready digital solutions. We also work with our clients to scale their native cloud applications. Using insights from the lived experiences of our consumers, we seamlessly replace traditional service strategies with engaging, precise, and direct digital applications. Designing phenomenal software is vital to success in the digital economy-and we understand that a human-centric approach is key to this design.
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