Project Manager

Cognizant’s Digital Engineering practice is seeking a highly qualified Project Manager 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: Dearborn, Michigan

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.

Skills Required:

• Design, build and maintain the HiL SW Validation Cycle plan including scope, schedule, budget and risk management;
• Lead the gathering of product requirements and project scope in a holistic manner across multiple teams or business functions;
• Monitor progress to plan and design a recovery strategy if project deviates from baseline plan; * Assemble and publish effective status reports able to serve a variety of audiences from project team member to Executive;
• Design and deliver Executive-level presentations to support the governance process for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM);
• Design and run effective program-level meetings to communicate status and coordinate efforts; * Conduct retrospectives on completed projects to support process, policy and tool-set improvements;
• Collaborate with peers, managers and team members across the organization to solve problems, develop plans and coordinate work;
• Promotes and encourages collaboration and transparency and builds trusting relationships between business, delivery and other entities within the organization;
• Plays an instrumental role in the organizations Agile transformation, acts as a change agent and shows strong leadership skills with a positive and collaborative attitude.

Skills Preferred:

• Ability to communicate effectively across written, verbal and presentation formats to a variety of audiences from engineer to Executive.
• Ability to develop schedules using Agile or Waterfall methodologies;
• Ability to design and document a project charter that includes scope, schedule, budget and risk management plan;
• Able to apply critical thinking techniques to analyze problems, develop solutions, build resource forecasts or manage risk;
• Ability to use either Waterfall or Agile methods to manage projects which may comprise both software and hardware;
• Ability to lead the gathering of product requirements and project scope across a multi-function team; * Ability to lead through influence to drive forward both the team and program;
• Ability to manage and facilitate team meetings and initiatives to effectively develop plans and achieve goals;
• Strong working knowledge of technology companies or domains and the interplay between Marketing, Product Development, Manufacturing, Customer Support, Sales and Professional Services;
• Updates, tracks, communicates status of initiatives and monitors timing of release milestones
• Desired experience with JiraAlign
• Excellent skill at using MS Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook and Word.
• May require the ability to travel via automobile or airplane;