Principal Business Architect, Consulting

Principal Business Architect, Consulting

Cognizant Consulting

At Cognizant, our consultants orchestrate the capabilities to truly change the game across strategy, design, technology and industry/functional knowledge to deliver insight at speed and solutions at scale. Our consulting services elevate the unique abilities and business aspirations of customers and employees and build relationships based on trust and value.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Shaping, leading and delivering value through technology advisory consultancy and through guiding transformational delivery engagements.
• Strong stakeholder management and relationship building skills at senior levels that will enable consensus building and shaping technology direction.
• Leading in the development and presentation of client proposals collaborating with teams across our business.
• Leading in the development of collateral to support Technology Consulting 'go to market' propositions and service offerings.
• Farming of accounts - working with account teams to support opportunity identification, qualification and sales.
• Contribute to the development of practice members' skills to ensure a consistency of service delivery and expertise. Active coaching and mentoring of junior members of the team.
• Develop, implement and continually refine a coherent approach and appropriate frameworks to support business transformation proposals, that includes presentations, specimen RFI/RFP content, methodologies, toolkits and deliverables. The Business Architect will have a strong foundation in requirements capture, journey mapping, business case formulation, and the design of capability models, process models, and logical data models. They will have experience of creating high-level design documents (HLDs). The candidate will own the design and be able to defend design choices at architecture assurance forums (e.g., BDA).

Core skills and experience:

• Requirements capture (e.g., Epics, Features, Stories).
• Business case.
• Journey mapping.
• Capability modelling.
• Process modelling.
• Data modelling.
• Agile methods (SCRUM).

Desirable skills and experience:

• Operating models.
• Organisation design.
• Customer models.
• Experience design.

The Business Architect must be comfortable drafting documents, preparing presentations, exploring solution options, quantifying benefits, and providing oversight to development teams. They must have the ability to abstract complex themes, problem solve, distil key discussion points, organise work, deliver to tight deadlines, and communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Security Clearance:

Please note that candidates must hold or be able to gain UK SC level Security Clearance or higher. Therefore we can only accept applications from British passport holders who meet this criteria.