Technical Lead RoleProject/Program Management Junior Consultant PSO Roles and Responsibilities:Handle/coordinate multiple ongoing projects through the project life cycle (using MS Project and Sharepoint).Need to build project plans consulting various functional/Technical managers.Host project review meetings.Participate in weekly status update meetings.Track project health in terms of schedule/cost and generate reports (Pivot tables, etc).Being proactive in advising process improvements.Experience: 10 to 12 years.Required Skills:Technical Skills: Portfolio & Project Management (PPM), Planview PPMTechnology: Information DeliveryShift: Day 9AM to 6PM (GMT-4) EDTRoles & Responsibilities Technical Lead:Bachelors in science, engineering or equivalent. Interact with clients and internal stakeholders, provide guidance to team members and execute projects through the course of coding, quality control, deployment, maintenance and support in order to deliver the project on time by ensuring maximum application uptime WITHIN the limits of SLAs, Cognizant and clients standards, processes and policies.Project Planning and Set-up:Understand project scope Based on the analysis of the type of the project provide inputs on project methodology to senior stakeholders (Project Manager / Architects etc.)Consolidate inputs from developers and collectively provide inputs on activities/ tasks, task level estimates, schedule, dependencies, risks etc.Consolidate inputs from developers and collectively provide inputs to testing strategy, configuration, deployment, hardware/software requirement etc.Analyze in detail resources required for every phase, conduct estimation of time utilization of different resources and activities, prepare resource and development plan or provide inputs and review with PMParticipate in KT sessions conducted by customer/ other business teamsRequirement Understanding and Analysis:Along with the Business Analyst, gather requirements (functional and non-functional) from customerAnalyze requirements for feasibility with regards to testing and implementationProvide inputs for requirements prioritizationDebrief team on the requirements gathered and seek feedbackParticipate in client calls and seek clarifications if anyCreate and maintain requirements traceability matrix along with BAProvide inputs during creation of operational concepts and scenariosWork with administrators to setup security requirementsDesign:Understand various functional and non functional requirements and HLD in order to provide inputs to create LLD and reviewRecommend make/ buy or alternate solutionsProvide inputs in designing end to end solutionJob Location: Primary: USCASATC01-Santa Clara - CA USA, CLT Alternate: