Senior Manager - Consulting

The Company

Cognizant (NASDAQ:CTSH) is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, dedicated to helping the world's leading companies build stronger businesses. Headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey (U.S.), Cognizant has over 350,000 employees as of January 2024. Cognizant is a member of the NASDAQ-100, the S&P 500, the Forbes Global 1000, and the Fortune 500 and is ranked among the top performing and fastest growing companies in the world.

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.

As a member of one of Cognizant's fastest-growing consulting practices, the successful candidate must be able to integrate well and develop their leadership within a global matrixed organisation, working collaboratively in agile environments with subject matter experts and technologists to develop sound enterprise architectures, technology strategies and solutions.

Responsibilities

• Engage in the following activities as you progress your career with us:
• Thorough knowledge of enterprise architecture best practices and demonstrable track record of application in a variety of organisations.
• Expertise in combining enterprise architecture with other consulting capabilities to envision, shape and deliver end-to-end consulting solutions for clients, including continuous delivery transformation, change management, strategy consulting, IoT & analytics consulting, programme management, and industry domain consulting.
• Lead the development and presentation of client proposals, collaborating with teams across our business.
• Develop collateral to support Technology Consulting 'go to market' propositions and service offerings.
• Shape, lead, and deliver value through technology advisory consultancy and guide transformational delivery engagements.
• Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills at senior levels to enable consensus building and shaping technology direction.
• Contribute to the development of practice members' skills to ensure consistency of service delivery and expertise, actively coaching and mentoring junior members of the team.
• Develop, implement, and continually refine a coherent approach and appropriate frameworks to support business transformation proposals, including presentations, specimen RFI/RFP content, methodologies, toolkits, and deliverables.

What you'll bring

• Proven consulting background and experience working on digital transformations is highly desirable.
• Experience working across varied technology domains such as Business Applications, Data, Infrastructure, Integration, and Security.
• Experience using technologies such as big data, analytics, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, automation, cloud technologies, and cloud strategies.
• Experience in security architectures, digital security, and application/network/cloud security.
• Experience providing technology leadership in complex £mm+ projects and programmes with large teams in a multi-vendor environment.