Project Manager – Life Sciences (Business Systems Analyst)

Cognizant is a leading technology company, and they are seeking a Project Manager – Life Sciences (Business Systems Analyst) to lead Phase 0 planning and delivery oversight for large-scale technology implementations. The role involves collaboration with project managers, business analysts, and stakeholders to define scope and create implementation roadmaps.

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