Manager - Projects Job in Bangalore at Cognizant

Cognizant is hiring for the role of Manager - Projects!

Responsibilities of the Candidate:

• Participate in external forums (seminars, paper presentations, etc.) to showcase Cognizant capabilities and insights under the guidance of senior team members.
• Understand the client's existing business and explore new avenues to save cost and bring process efficiency.
• Identify business opportunities to create reusable components/accelerators and reuse existing components and best practices.
• Support the patent filing process for the IP assets created (applicable to some CoEs).
• In collaboration with the senior architect, analyze application/technology landscape, process, and tools, and arrive at the solution options best fit for the client.
• Analyze the Cost vs. benefits of solution options.
• Support Sr. Architect to create a technology/architecture roadmap for the client.
• Identify alliance partners based on the understanding of service offerings and client requirements.
• Conduct beta testing of the offerings.
• Publish and maintain a repository of solutions, best practices, standards, and other knowledge articles.
• Conduct and facilitate knowledge-sharing and learning sessions across the team.
• Gain industry-standard certifications in technology and architecture consulting.
• Support technical skill building (including hiring and training) for the team based on inputs from the project manager.
• Mentor new members of the team in technical areas.
• Gain and cultivate domain expertise to provide the best and most optimized solution to customers.
• Set goals & manage the performance of reporting team members.
• Provide career guidance to team members.
• Understand the plan for asset development.
• Design assets as per plan (if required).
• Conduct a pilot run/review to validate the assets, as feasible.
• Track utilization of reusable assets/architecture components across the organization.
• Support for developing RFPs and collaterals for proposals from a technical solution/estimation/risks perspective.
• Conduct demos and arrange for the demos based on client profiles, if required.
• Anchor proposal development with cross-linkages across multiple competency units to arrive at a coherent solution proposal with a focus on presenting unique value propositions and clear differentiators.
• Work with customers and other teams to collect, analyze and understand the requirements including NFRs.
• Analyze gaps/tradeoffs based on the current system context/industry practices and clarify the requirements by working with the customer.

Requirements:

• Must haves:
  • Infra Cloud Data Gov & Catalog knowledge.
  • Data Management Functional knowledge.
  • Infra Cloud Metadata Cmd Center Knowledge.
  • Infra Cloud Data Marketplace knowledge.
  • DAP Dynamic App Platform skills.
  • DQG Architect skills.
  • Informatica EDC knowledge.
  • Bachelor's in science, engineering, or equivalent.