Cognizant is seeking a Project Manager / Business System Analyst to lead Phase 0 planning and technology implementations. The role involves stakeholder engagement, solution architecture definition, and ensuring alignment across teams for successful project delivery.
Responsibilities:
- Lead project kickoff, planning activities, scheduling, and deliverable management
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand scope, business processes, requirements, and ensure alignment across teams
- Conduct workshops, gap-fit assessments, and produce detailed readouts and documentation
- Define and document solution architecture, including high-level design, deployment diagrams, data migration analysis, and cloud considerations
- Coordinate across internal teams, client teams (BRM, BSA, Architecture), and external vendors to ensure timely and quality deliverables
Requirements:
- Proven experience leading complex IT projects, including scheduling, scope management, deliverables, and risk mitigation
- Strong background in conducting workshops, requirements gathering, business process analysis, and gap-fit assessments
- Experience drafting functional and user requirement specifications, validation plans, test strategies, and test scenarios
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate with architecture, security, network, and service design teams to gather input and ensure compliance
- Experience defining high-level solution architectures and preparing implementation plans, cost estimates, and effort models
- Experience with cloud architecture and deployment planning
- Prior work coordinating across large, matrixed organizations and vendor-managed projects
- Familiarity with ARB/architecture review processes and pre-approval procedures
- Ability to translate business drivers into actionable IT strategies and communicate them to stakeholders
- Strong analytical skills for data migration analysis, testing effort estimation, and architecture documentation