Agile Program Manager

Agile Program Manager

Job Summary

We are looking for a skilled multifaceted Agile Program Manager to manage sophisticated software projects. The ideal candidate will combine technical expertise with project management foresight to drive successful project delivery, ensuring alignment with business goals and technical requirements.

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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.

Location: Riverwoods - IL.

*Candidate is required to be in the office 2 to 3 days a week*

Roles and Responsibilities:

* Ensure clear alignment of work against objective and key results/goals to empower product teams to deliver key results. In partnership with Business Director/Business Technology Director.

* Facilitate coordination and collaboration of product families/teams to maximize the flow of work within complex Products.

* Optimize the flow of work from ideation to delivery within Product Family(s) and across multiple agile teams.

* Dependency Management across product area/family/team to guide the org to deliver high quality value.

* Removal of systemic impediments.

* Foster adoption of the CraftWorx/single Agile Way of Working standards

* Leverages metrics to derive insights, continuously identify and drive improvement opportunities to fruition across the product family.

* Be the champion of Agile delivery practices within a Product Family, supported by Discover Technology Academy (DTA)

* Partner with the Tech Anchors, Scrum Masters, SPO, PO's and BTD's to drive maturity of our CraftWorx practices within a product family, supported by DTA

* Train, mentor and coach their product family to mature product team practices in alignment with DTA playbooks.

* Building community, foster inter-team collaboration with a culture of continuous learning and continuous improvement across the Product Families.

Required Qualifications:

* You have sufficient work and background knowledge of your domain.

* You have experience integrating agile-lean principles to steer business strategy (e.g., in product backlog management for incremental delivery of value) and technical activities such as architecture, design, coding and test engineering, and associated tooling.

* You follow CraftWorx guidelines to apply appropriate practices and standards to their context.

* You have experience of business and technology in a scaled environment, and awareness of the role of DevOps.

* You partner with stakeholders to build consensus for deliverables within the product family.

* You actively reinforce team objectives and key results (OKRs) when identifying opportunities.

* You independently support programs, typically of large size and complexity, and monitor risk alongside dependencies, to ensure teams achieve their expected outcomes.

Salary and Other Compensation:

Applications will be accepted until 1/5/2025.

This position is also eligible for Cognizant's discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant's applicable plans.

Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:

* Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

* Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

* 401(k) plan and contributions

* Long-term/Short-term Disability

* Paid Parental Leave

* Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Why Choose Cognizant?

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 abilities fresh and have opportunities to acquire certifications on the latest technologies.

Everything we do at Cognizant we do with passion-for our clients, our communities, and our organization. It's the defining attribute that we look for in our people.

If you became comfortable with ambiguity, excited by change, and excel through autonomy, we'd love to hear from you!

Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer provider and committed to crafting a diverse environment. Cognizant considers all applicants without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, age, marital and family status, disabilities, sexual orientation or preference, veteran status or any other classification protected by state, federal or local law.

About cognizant:

Headquartered in the U.S, Cognizant leverages a highly flexible business model, a flawless global delivery network, and deep domain expertise to deliver to a long list of world-class companies that are leaders in their own space. www.cognizant.com

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