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Cognizant Project & Program Management Department Salaries in Chennai

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Project Manager

8 - 20 years exp. · Chennai (725 salaries)
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₹12.8 L/yr - ₹40.2 L/yr

2 job openings

Senior Associate

3 - 15 years exp. · Chennai (586 salaries)
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₹8.7 L/yr - ₹22.8 L/yr

Associate Director

15 - 25 years exp. · Chennai (150 salaries)
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₹20 L/yr - ₹50 L/yr

Senior Project Manager

14 - 23 years exp. · Chennai (123 salaries)
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₹16.5 L/yr - ₹39.5 L/yr

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Scrum Master

5 - 16 years exp. · Chennai (85 salaries)
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₹6.8 L/yr - ₹28.1 L/yr

Team Lead

4 - 16 years exp. · Chennai (58 salaries)
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₹5.5 L/yr - ₹17 L/yr

2 job openings

Senior Manager Project Management

14 - 21 years exp. · Chennai (55 salaries)
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₹16.4 L/yr - ₹40 L/yr

Service Delivery Manager

10 - 20 years exp. · Chennai (51 salaries)
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₹14 L/yr - ₹31.5 L/yr

1 job opening

Senior Project Associate

7 - 14 years exp. · Chennai (49 salaries)
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₹8.5 L/yr - ₹24.6 L/yr

Program Manager

10 - 23 years exp. · Chennai (47 salaries)
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₹14 L/yr - ₹34 L/yr

PMO Executive

6 - 14 years exp. · Chennai (39 salaries)
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₹4.5 L/yr - ₹10.5 L/yr

Project Lead

8 - 16 years exp. · Chennai (37 salaries)
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₹8.1 L/yr - ₹22.3 L/yr

Technical Manager

12 - 18 years exp. · Chennai (35 salaries)
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₹14.8 L/yr - ₹30.5 L/yr

1 job opening

Technical Project Manager

12 - 17 years exp. · Chennai (34 salaries)
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₹14 L/yr - ₹32.5 L/yr

Delivery Manager

11 - 19 years exp. · Chennai (31 salaries)
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₹13.1 L/yr - ₹31 L/yr

Project Manager Scrum Master

10 - 17 years exp. · Chennai (29 salaries)
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₹11.5 L/yr - ₹28.5 L/yr

Test Manager

12 - 17 years exp. · Chennai (23 salaries)
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₹12 L/yr - ₹22.7 L/yr

Director

18 - 27 years exp. · Chennai (22 salaries)
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₹35.6 L/yr - ₹59 L/yr

Team Manager

10 - 16 years exp. · Chennai (21 salaries)
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₹9.5 L/yr - ₹19.7 L/yr

Engagement Delivery Lead

16 - 22 years exp. · Chennai (21 salaries)
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₹20 L/yr - ₹38 L/yr

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Free to learn any new technologies. Work life balance will be good. Compensation will be good if you perform hard and well.

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Good internal training programs & assessments from udemy. Customer focused teams. Have separate technology expert pools of people

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  • Skill development - Good
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In past 8 months at least, market salary has increased by 60%-150%. But CTS trying to retain resigned people with 30% hike & miserably failing. Resulted in 40% attrition

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Associate Director Delivery in Chennai

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... based on insights of human intuition to deliver intuitive engineered solutions. This tagline has changed organization culture that embrace diversity at work with cutting digital platform to encourages accelerated career growth

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There are disconnected role expectation among few at grass root that leads to a section of population sacrifice their work life balance.

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Cognizant Salary FAQs

How much does Cognizant pay per year?
The average Cognizant salary ranges from approximately ₹0.2 Lakh to ₹0.2 Lakh per year for a Safety Engineer and ₹94 Lakhs to ₹96 Lakhs per year for a Senior Director Finance. Salary estimates are based on 3.7k Cognizant salaries received from various employees of Cognizant. Cognizant employees rate the overall salary and benefits package 3.3/5 stars.
What is the highest salary in Cognizant?
The highest-paying job at Cognizant is a Senior Director Finance with a salary of ₹94 Lakhs to ₹96 Lakhs per year. The top 10% of employees earn more than ₹18.44 lakhs per year. The top 1% earn more than a whopping ₹32.49 lakhs per year.
What is the minimum salary in Cognizant?
Minimum salary at Cognizant depends on the role you are applying for. For Processing Executive the minimum salary is ₹1 Lakh to ₹4.5 Lakhs per year, and for Programmer Analyst Trainee the minimum salary is ₹1 Lakh to ₹4.5 Lakhs per year and so on.
What is the salary package for freshers in Cognizant?
The average salary at Cognizant for freshers varies from ₹0.7 Lakh to ₹4 Lakhs per year for Information Technology Support Engineer and ₹11 Lakhs to ₹15 Lakhs per year for Senior Business Development Analyst.
What is the notice period at Cognizant in Project & Program Management Department in Chennai?
According to AmbitionBox, 58% of the Cognizant employees in Project & Program Management Department in Chennai reported a notice period of 2 Months, 19% reported a notice period of 3 Months and the remaining reported other notice period durations. This is based on 1.8k responses on AmbitionBox in last 2 years.

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