CONSULTING MANAGER - BUSINESS ANALYST (AUTOMOTIVE AND CONNECTIVITY)

ABOUT US

Cognizant is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build, and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com.

COGNIZANT CONSULTING

Within Cognizant is Cognizant Consulting, a global consulting organization delivering strategic and domain consulting through industry and technology expertise. With over 6,000 consultants worldwide, Cognizant offers high-value consulting services that improve business performance and operational productivity, lower operational expenses and enhance overall performance. Clients draw upon our deep industry expertise, program and change management capabilities, and analytical objectivity to help improve business productivity, drive technology-enabled business transformation and increase shareholder value. We provide a number of Business/IT Consulting Services including Business Strategy, IT Strategy & Roadmap Development, Process Re-Engineering & Transformation, Enterprise Architecture & Technology Selection, and Domain Solutions. The Cognizant Consulting team is a high performing organization that is continually expanding our client base and increasingly being recommended by analysts such as Forrester and Gartner. And we're growing!

The Role

Our Manufacturing & Logistics Consulting group is looking for a Consulting Manager to join our journey. The Business Analyst will be part of the development team working on the Connected Vehicle Platform (CVP) initiative Phase 2 under the Global Connected Services (GCS) department. A project that will start in 2025 is targeted to develop a new global solution for collecting vehicle data from multiple data collection solutions, governance and distribution through common data services in conformity with privacy and cybersecurity legislation. Existing local solutions implemented in Phase 1 will be maintained during the project while existing data services will gradually be migrated to the new global solution. The business migration strategy and impacted business services need to be defined.

We're looking for Consulting Managers who can deliver within Cognizant's Five Pillars of Consulting Excellence: 1) Project Execution, 2) Expertise, 3) Business Development, 4) Practice Development, & 5) People Development. As a Consulting Manager, this means partnering with clients and project stakeholders, colleagues to clarify requirements and support delivery of effective solutions; applying technical and domain expertise to solve core client business challenges or inefficiencies; developing and strengthening domain knowledge and maintaining an accurate understanding of Cognizant's industry propositions and consulting capabilities; supporting business development activities of senior leaders; contributing to the development of practice initiatives or new service offerings (e.g., Strategic Control Points, development of consulting assets); and being an inspiring colleague, promoting team motivation, partnership, and ownership for projects. In addition to enabling consulting excellence through the Five Pillars of Consulting, the specific requirements for this position are below.

Our solutions are in demand and we're passionate about making a difference. If you have experience with the above, are a selfless leader, and are committed to client-facing environment; if you want to grow your career with a team that wants to build something great together, we want to hear from you! Apply now!

Responsibilities

* Engineer business processes, workflows and requirements, either by:

* supporting the responsible operational service delivery teams.

* representing GCS when participating in work groups designing new business applications.

* Designing new internal processes in alignment with GCS internal stakeholders.

* Engineer (non-)functional requirements for business services.

* In close collaboration with Information Analyst(s):

* Specify detailed Functional Designs for use cases and system interfaces, in close collaboration with the Solution Architect and in accordance with Solution Architecture Design.

* Define and refine user stories on the backlog of the development team

* Collect and document relevant information according to project scope and DAF standards.

* Design for privacy, in accordance with GDPR legislation.

* Design for cybersecurity, in accordance with UN-ECE R155 legislation.

* Support the Data Architect with data governance definitions, data taxonomy and logical data modelling.

* Be in front and ahead of the development team, strongly supporting the Product Owner to manage DoR and DoD.

* Collaborate with and influence Cognizant project resources (e.g., service lines, SBUs, on/offshore delivery teams) and Partners on behalf of project goals, often-changing client needs, and ultimately client delight.

* Participate in People Care activities, Mentor and support less experienced Consultants for the benefit of the practice.

• Build a good professional relationship with existing Product Owner(s), Information Analyst(s) and Architect(s)
• Obtain a complete overview for all business services in the scope of the project.
• Support and guide internal and external test teams during planning and execution of functional and user acceptance testing.
• Work in close cooperation with the Development Team and with the Subject Matter Experts as changes will take place based on both business and technical project activities.

Qualifications

* Master or Bachelor or related. 5-10 years of relevant experience.

* A business analyst through and through, enjoying analyzing business cases, strategy, processes, roadmaps and requirements over IT solutions and architecture.

* Able and willing to work in Dallas office 3-5 days per week.

* Able and willing to work in a dynamic and innovative environment, stress resilient.

* Able and willing to backwards define requirements when not formally received/documented.

* Able and willing to communicate with multiple nationalities over different time zones.

* Master or Bachelor or related. 5-10 years of relevant experience.

* Experience with the business domain and marketing and sales of digital services using connectivity solutions.

* Vast knowledge of automotive and connectivity.

* BPMN 2.0 / UML / ArchiMate

Work Authorization

* Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship (H-1B, L-1B, L-1A, etc.)