Program Manager Eagle

About the Role

Cognizant is seeking a Program Manager for the Eagle Accounting and Eagle Performance workstreams. This full-time role is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and requires 5-10 years of experience. The Program Manager will serve as the central point of coordination and governance for the program, ensuring strong execution discipline, proactive risk and issue management, effective stakeholder engagement, transparent reporting, and alignment between client and delivery teams. The successful candidate will report to the Practice Director.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain a robust governance framework across the Eagle Accounting and Eagle Performance workstreams.
• Coordinate program-level planning, milestones, dependencies, deliverables, and governance forums.
• Ensure clear ownership, accountability, and follow-through for all program actions.
• Maintain program-level RAID management covering risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies.
• Proactively identify potential delivery challenges and drive preventive or corrective actions.
• Act as a senior day-to-day interface between the organization and the client for overall program governance.
• Build trusted working relationships with senior business, operations, technology, and transformation stakeholders, including those in Jeddah.
• Manage stakeholder expectations and ensure timely communication of progress, risks, decisions, and required interventions.
• Maintain active oversight of program risks, issues, and cross-workstream dependencies, driving structured root-cause analysis and resolution.
• Prepare concise and accurate weekly and monthly program reporting for leadership, providing clear visibility of program status and risks.
• Coordinate across Professional Services, product, engineering, support, infrastructure, and other relevant teams.
• Manage interdependencies between implementation teams, client technology teams, and third-party providers.

Required Experience and Skills

• Significant experience managing large and complex technology implementation programs within financial services, investment management, asset management, banking, or capital markets.
• Demonstrated experience in program governance, project controls, risk and issue management, dependency management, and executive reporting.
• Strong track record of managing senior client stakeholders in complex delivery environments.
• Ability to operate independently and proactively in a client-facing on-site role.
• Strong executive communication, facilitation, negotiation, and conflict-resolution skills.
• Experience coordinating geographically distributed and cross-functional delivery teams.
• Demonstrated ability to identify emerging delivery risks early and drive issues through to resolution.
• Strong understanding of structured implementation methodologies and the enterprise technology delivery lifecycle.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience within investment management, asset servicing, investment accounting, performance measurement, or portfolio management.
• Prior experience with Eagle solutions, particularly Eagle Accounting and/or Eagle Performance.
• Understanding of investment data, accounting, performance measurement, portfolio structures, securities, and related operational processes.
• Experience delivering major programs in Saudi Arabia or the broader GCC region.
• Familiarity with operating within large financial institutions where business and technology responsibilities span multiple entities or locations.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with coordination required with client IT teams, including stakeholders located in Jeddah. The role involves working within complex stakeholder environments, including multiple business, operations, technology, vendor, and management stakeholders.