Job Purpose
- As a Cloud Project Manager, you will be responsible to deliver projects that span across one or more business units. Will manage resources, schedules, and financials throughout the project's
- life cycle. This includes management of issues, risks, and project change requests to ensure successful and on-time project delivery.
- The Cloud Project Manager will run the project on a day-to-day basis, coordinate between delivery teams, make sure that the project produces the required deliverables within the specified
- constraints of time and cost and achieve the desired results.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with stakeholders to document project scope, deliverables, goals, risks, blockers, success measures, and estimated resources needed.
- Ensure that projects remain in-scope and meet budgetary, scheduling, and quality requirements.
- Create, manage, and distribute project communications artifacts like charters, schedules, and budgets.
- Provide project status updates at predetermined time intervals to all stakeholders.
- Communicate routinely to management, customers, project team members, and other stakeholders, actively soliciting and addressing customer and project team feedback.
- Assist in business development efforts to create project proposals, RFPs, estimates, and schedules.
- Set and monitor project budgets and staffing requirements.
- Ensure adherence to legally binding requirements.
- Plan, schedule, monitor, and report on activities related to the project, including subcontractor monitoring.
- Establish key project criteria metrics.
- Develop project control and reporting procedures and manage changes in operational plan.
- Plan and lead status review meetings, which may include internal team members, vendors, and customers.
- Understand interdependencies between technology, operations, and business needs.
- Continue professional development (technical and personal) in order to keep abreast of emerging technologies, methods, and best practices.
- Resolve technical and operational issues as required.
Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in project management, business management, or related area of study.
- 5-7 years of experience as a Technical Project Manager or similar position responsible for defining and managing project scope, timelines, profitability, and effective delivery of products or services.
- 2 years’ experience dealing with Cloud Financial Management (FinOps).
- Demonstrated understanding of Project Management processes, strategies, and methods
- Excellent time management and organizational skills and experience establishing guidelines in managing critical and complex projects.
- Strong sense of personal accountability regarding decision-making and leading department teams
- Experience working in a high-level collaborative environment, promoting a teamwork mentality and applying analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
- Ability to predict challenges and seek to proactively head-off obstacles.
- Experience in managing delivery of customer-facing and internally facing products or services.
- Experience in delivering projects using Agile, PMI or PMP framework.
- Intermediate to advanced proficiency with industry-standard word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation software programs.
Technical Skills
- PMI or PMP certification or similar from an accredited organization SCRUM Certified
- Azure or AWS Fundamentals Certified
- Min 1 year of hands-on Cloud Technical Experience
- Cloud FinOps Certification preferred
- Familiarity using Power BI Reporting Tool
Soft Skills / Transversal Skills
- Effective communication skills to foster better teamwork, collaboration, and customer relations.
- Emotional intelligence (EI) to recognize and manage emotions, both in oneself and others. It involves empathy, self-awareness, and the ability to handle interpersonal relationships with tact and sensitivity.
- Critical thinking to evaluate options and implement strategies to overcome obstacles. To approach challenges with confidence and contribute innovative ideas to your organization.
- Leadership skills in motivating, inspiring, and influencing others to achieve common goals.
- Time management and organizational skills to effectively manage time, prioritize tasks, meet deadlines, and maintain a healthy work-life balance.
About Cognizant
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) engineers’ modern businesses. We help our clients modernize technology, reimagine processes and transform experiences so they can stay ahead in our fast-changing world. Together, we're improving everyday life. See how at www.cognizant.com or @cognizant.
