Data Advisory Consulting Lead

Description
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. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant, a member of the NASDAQ-100, is ranked 195 on the Fortune 500 and is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. 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

We're looking for someone to join us as a Data Advisory Consulting Lead. In this role, you will have a strong focus on cloud data architectures and provide a thorough understanding of cloud technologies. The ideal candidate will have proven experience in designing and deploying data architectural solutions on various cloud platforms, with some on prem experience as well. We're looking for someone who has strong communication and leadership qualities in order to guide client conversations around building and managing data pipelines and building secure, multi-purpose, scalable cloud architectures for our clients in a variety of industries. You'll also work closely with our sales team to design and develop execution strategies that drive the delivery of data solutions. This role carries sales targets.

As part of our team, you'll have the opportunity to focus on the evaluation, strategy, design, customization, and optimization of Cloud Technology based solutions for data for some of the world's most interesting organizations. You'll be able to apply results-oriented thinking to meet our F2000 clients' complex challenges and develop new strategies for acquiring, analyzing, modeling and storing data. To be successful, you'll need to have deep knowledge of the latest data technology and information management approaches to design effective logical data modeling, metadata management, and database warehouse domains, and you'll also be able to apply back to the business need.

We're ideally looking for someone who comes from a diverse technical background and can comfortably communicate with both C-level business stakeholders and technical specialists. This role involves conducting tactical stakeholder interviews, gathering and evaluating business requirements, conducting gap analyses and devising plans of action that are clear and comprehensive to specialists, business stakeholders and C-level representatives alike. When designing data solutions, you already anticipate potential future ways of data discovery, extraction, ingestion, data cleansing, data warehousing and monitoring, while dealing with large and various sets of structured and unstructured data.

As a leader on our team, you will have ample experience with real time data ingestion from a variety of data sources and have designed self-service systems for data consumption. This position leans predominantly towards defining, designing, and building data architectures, data strategies tied to business objectives, and data service platforms, and if you love solving business problems with data strategies for some of the most exciting F2000 companies, we want to hear from you!

Responsibilities

• Develop data strategies for clients that are tied to business objectives and outcomes
• Develop architectural strategies for data modeling, design and implementation to meet stated requirements for metadata management, operational data stores and ETL environments with a strong focus on cloud environments
• Review existing data architectures to determine overall effectiveness and develop comprehensive strategies for improving or replacing underperforming areas
• Demonstrate knowledge of cloud architecture and implementation features (OS, multi-tenancy, virtualization, orchestration, elastic scalability)
• Demonstrate knowledge of DevOps tool chains and processes
• Assess our client current state and design new processes and approaches in order to close tool and process gaps in order to guide our clients toward a more effective digital future with data
• Lead client presentations and conversations during both the sales and implementation cycles
• Research new technologies, data modeling methods and information management systems to determine which ones should be incorporated into client data architectures, and develop implementation timelines and milestones
• Be the principal advisor to key account initiatives and oversight on select client programs.
• Deliver outstanding client results through the oversight of client teams to implement recommendations
• Draw conclusions from the market / industry trends, client issues and support go to market initiatives for Cognizant
• Contribute to the practice through meeting sales targets

Qualifications

• 12+ years of work experience in a Consulting, Engineering, Industry, or Professional Services environment
• The ability to advise and lead external clients through complex Data Advisory engagements
• Demonstrated personal leadership and the ability to manage multiple task assignments and direct teams on major engagements; the ability to work as part of a cross-cultural team including flexibility to support multiple time zones when necessary
• Technical knowledge paired with a collaborative approach and the ability to work with diverse teams across multiple client engagements in the F2000 to help drive successful business outcomes
• Well-developed communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills that enable the adoption of our solutions and the ability to quickly execute toward business goals
• Domain expertise in one of more of the following industries: Banking and Financial Services, Insurance, Health Care, Life Sciences, Technology, Communications, Information, Media and Entertainment, Retail, Consumer Products, Manufacturing and Logistics, Travel and Hospitality is a plus
• MBA (or equivalent work experience), with an overall work experience of 10 or more years
• Certification with one or more Cloud providers
• Knowledge of North America customers and industries
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Strong presentation and facilitation skills
• Willingness to travel throughout North America when needed

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.)

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