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Role: Mobility Program Manager - DAS Installation
Location: WestPalm beach, Florida
*Please note, this role is not able to offer visa transfer or sponsorship now or in the future*
Job Description:
• Lead the planning, delivery, and operational transition of Distributed Antenna System (DAS) installations across enterprise office locations.
• Manage end-to-end mobility infrastructure programmes, including scope definition, milestone tracking, risk management, stakeholder engagement, and vendor coordination.
• Partner with Vendors, Carriers, facilities/WPS teams, sourcing, legal, network engineering, and workplace teams to deliver indoor cellular coverage improvements with minimal business disruption.
• Coordinate site readiness activities, including design reviews, cabling, electrical work, permitting, inspections, access planning, and implementation scheduling.
• Own programme governance, including weekly status reporting, executive updates, RAID logs, decision tracking, escalation management, and dependency coordination.
• Drive carrier and vendor accountability for implementation timelines, technical deliverables, testing, acceptance criteria, and post-installation support.
• Manage contractual and commercial dependencies, including amendments, co-location requirements, landlord constraints, carrier commitments, and change-of-scope impacts.
• Oversee DAS testing, service validation, operational handover, knowledge transfer, incident routing, and transition to steady-state support.
• Ensure clear communications to business stakeholders regarding installation timelines, expected impact, coverage improvements, risks, and programme outcomes.
Job Requirements
• 3+ years of experience managing enterprise mobility, telecom, infrastructure, workplace technology, or carrier delivery programmes.
• Proven experience delivering DAS, indoor cellular coverage, wireless infrastructure, carrier connectivity, or telecom deployment projects in corporate environments.
• Strong programme management skills, including planning, dependency management, financial tracking, risk mitigation, executive reporting, and cross-functional governance.
• Experience working with mobile carriers, DAS providers, network teams, facilities/WPS teams, landlords, sourcing, legal, and third-party implementation partners.
• Solid understanding of DAS delivery lifecycle activities, including site surveys, RF design, infrastructure readiness, cabling, electrical work, permitting, installation, testing, and acceptance.
• Ability to manage complex dependencies such as landlord approvals, carrier co-location, city permits, weekend work windows, building access, inspections, and scope changes.
• Strong vendor management capability, with experience holding partners accountable for milestones, deliverables, issue resolution, and operational handover.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to create executive-ready status updates, decision documents, RAID logs, and stakeholder communications.
• Experience managing change impact and communications for office-based technology deployments that affect employee connectivity and workplace experience.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify blockers, escalate risks, and drive decisions across technical and business stakeholders.
• Familiarity with corporate mobility services, eSIM/voice/data line programmes, carrier contracts, mobile device operations, and telecom expense/vendor management is preferred.
• PMP, PgMP, Agile, ITIL, or equivalent programme/project management certification is preferred.
• Experience with ServiceNow, Smartsheet, Microsoft Project, Power BI, or similar tools for tracking delivery status, risks, milestones, and operational readiness is preferred.
About Cognizant:
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is an AI Builder and technology services provider, bridging the gap between AI investment and enterprise value by building full-stack AI solutions for our clients. Our deep industry, process and engineering expertise enables us to build an organization's unique context into technology systems that amplify human potential, drive tangible outcomes and keep global enterprises ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at cognizant.ai or @cognizant.
Additional employment information
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