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.

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.

Location: Alpharetta, GA/ Remote

Roles/Responsibilities:

• The Engineering Manager will be responsible for leading overall delivery of large-scale engineering projects & programs

• Direct oversight of all development and delivery phases (discovery, estimation, initiation, planning, design, execution and releasing) of complex technology projects and programs

• Ensure delivery standards and best practices are utilized throughout the life of a project to ensure optimal delivery of the solution

• Develop practical solutions to achieve program productivity, quality and schedule objectives. Management through metrics & KPIs

• Drive key technical decisions and proactively manage risks, issue and roadblocks to ensure success solution delivery of the end product

• Ability to evaluate architectures

• Ability to evaluate and hire team members from various background (technical & non-technical - Architecture, Product Management, Full Stack Engineer, …)

• Build, develop, mentor and guide individual’s professional development regardless of diversity, geography and experience

• Provide technical leadership and advising on solutions, products and proposals across the organization

• Drive client engagement from strategy planning to escalation management

• Support ongoing growth within the account

• Contribute to mature the overall digital engineering community

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field, Masters degree preferred

• Background in Software Delivery Management, Product Management or Solution Architecture, ideally with 3+ years of hands-on experience

• Excellent Project Management and organizational skills in a highly technical environment

• Excellent business communication and time management skills required

• Experience collaborating with client’s senior leaders & stakeholders

• Business Development experience with product solutioning and client engagement. Experience establishing detailed cost estimates, project schedules and resourcing plans

• Knowledge of software development/Product lifecycle, methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, …)

• Experience with planning, resourcing, and delivering large-scale technical projects

• Experience with project financial management to ensure optimal delivery management and tracking.

  
  

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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