Infrastructure Project Manager

About us Cognizant is one of the world's leading professional services companies, redefining clients' business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build, and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant, a member of the NASDAQ-100, is ranked 195 on the Fortune 500 and is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com Cognizant consulting Within Cognizant is Cognizant Consulting, a global consulting organization delivering strategic and domain consulting through industry and technology expertise. With over 6,000 consultants worldwide, Cognizant offers high-value consulting services that improve business performance and operational productivity, lower operational expenses and enhance overall performance. Clients draw upon our deep industry expertise, program and organisational change capabilities, and analytical objectivity to help improve business productivity, drive technology-enabled business transformation and increase shareholder value. We provide a number of Business/IT Consulting Services including Business Strategy, IT Strategy & Roadmap Development, Process Re-Engineering & Transformation, Enterprise Architecture & Technology Selection, and Domain Solutions. The Cognizant Consulting team is a hard-working organization that is continually expanding our client base and increasingly being recommended by analysts such as Forrester and Gartner. And we're growing! This position is open to Qualified individuals in the United States. This position is in Westerville, OH Practice - CIS - Cloud, Infrastructure, and Security Services About Cloud Infrastructure & Security Services: Cognizant's Cloud, Infrastructure, and Security Services Practice (CIS), is all about adopting digital transformation by driving core modernization holistically across layers. We help customers transform infrastructure and workplace to meet the constantly evolving needs of the digital era. Our broad approach delivers key results for our customers by achieving cloud driven modernization and workplace and operational transformation to run the business in a secure environment. Job Description / Roles and Responsibilities Act as the Project Manager for the Technology Infrastructure & Operations delivery team to implement and support PDLC practices within the organization. This includes performing daily standups, documenting progress and blockers, ability to track and measure velocity using tools like Confluence, Workfront, and Service Now Facilitate workshops and work with technology teams to achieve predictability and reduce waste by establishing guiding principles around capacity planning, prioritization, cross-team dependencies, and roadmap management Create written standards and associated support documentation for tools and practices adopted by teams Conduct retrospectives, champion continuous improvement, and create an environment of collaboration at all levels in the organization Partner with leadership and work cross-functionally with team members for proper and precise communications, status, backlog prioritization, and gathering/defining project scope and timelines As part of the Technology Infrastructure & Operations delivery team, you will also be responsible for organizing interactions with stakeholders and shared accountability for delivery Work with other teams to drive consistency across adopted practices, processes, and tools Responsible for building a high-performing team of leaders that produce successful outcomes when pairing with project managers and technology teams to execute high-level project plans Responsible for bringing new tooling and technology solutions with a focus on streamlining processes and building ind