Data Director, Consulting

Cognizant; Dover; On-site; USD 137,000 - 218,000

Job description

Director, Data Consulting

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

Cognizant Technology Modernization is changing the game in Data, Cloud and Generative AI based consultancy services. Tech Modernization is almost like a boutique consultancy inside of Cognizant that creates change in how technology is used and fosters an innovative engineering culture.

We strategically drive modern engineering practices and ways of working, along with helping clients in all aspects of enterprise technology solution modernization including AI, Cloud, DevOps, Data and more.

We’re looking for a Senior Consultant, Cognizant Consulting who can deliver within Cognizant’s Five Pillars of Consulting Excellence, which are: 1) Project Execution, 2) Expertise, 3) Business Development, 4) Practice Development, & 5) People Development. As the Senior Manager, this means overseeing advisory consulting engagements, being a trusted advisor to clients, establishing oneself as a thought leader in your field, solving complex problems, consultatively working with a client to achieve business goals, driving contributions to offerings and innovations, and serving as a people leader, guiding multiple teams as they work to transform a client and the world. In addition to enabling consulting excellence through the Five Pillars of Consulting, the specific requirements for this position are below.

Responsibilities

1. Develop data strategies for clients that are tied to business objectives and outcomes.
2. 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.
3. Review existing data architectures to determine overall effectiveness and develop comprehensive strategies for improving or replacing underperforming areas.
4. Manage end-to-end responsibilities for consulting engagements in areas of control.
5. Ensure the business viability of complex solutions for Cognizant in key accounts.
6. Continuously assess the business for profitability and initiate remedial interventions where needed.
7. Formalize best-in-class practices, pursue the development of consulting thought leadership, and participate in industry forums and conferences to establish and enhance Cognizant’s brand.
8. Exercise financial accountability and responsibility for revenues and margin growth in practice area of control.
9. Ensure appropriate pricing for consultants across engagements and promote the education of project teams on consultative value.
10. Establish and nurture relationships with client executives in assigned accounts and serve as their trusted advisor.
11. Build or facilitate the route to market of innovative practice solutions.
12. Actively build the consulting practice community by driving consensus about and standardization on best practices.
13. Manage and mentor a team of direct reports and the overarching recruitment, onboarding, development, and engagement of consultants.
14. Demonstrate knowledge of cloud architecture and implementation features (OS, multi-tenancy, virtualization, orchestration, elastic scalability).
15. Demonstrate knowledge of DevOps tool chains and processes.
16. 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.
17. Lead client presentations and conversations during both the sales and implementation cycles.
18. 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.
19. Be the principal advisor to key account initiatives and oversight on select client programs.
20. Deliver outstanding client results through the oversight of client teams to implement recommendations.
21. Draw conclusions from the market/industry trends, client issues and support go to market initiatives for Cognizant.
22. Contribute to the practice through meeting sales targets.

QUALIFICATIONS

1. 12+ years of experience developing data strategies for clients that are tied to business objectives and outcomes.
2. At least 8 years in a consulting or advisory capacity including significant consultative solution and business development experience gained from multiple sectors.
3. Strong experience communicating with both C-level business stakeholders including 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.
4. Expert anticipating 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.
5. Experience in business development, including identification of leads and opportunities, pre-sales and post-sales support, marketing, and client relationship management.
6. Demonstrated depth of experience in Life Sciences domain.
7. Ability to travel as and when required.
8. A successful track record of setting and achieving engagement targets, controlling budgets, managing forecasts, and driving an organization of professional consultants in winning business and achieving financial targets.
9. Possessing a robust network of contacts and presence in professional organizations and industry forums.
10. International experience supporting or driving global initiatives is a plus.
11. Experience in building results-oriented, high-performing consulting teams or organizations recognized for excellence.
12. Personal leadership and a desire to create a culture that enables exceptional outcomes; the embodiment of Cognizant’s Core Values of: Start with a point of view; Seek data, build knowledge; Always strive, never settle; Work as one; Create conditions for everyone to thrive; Do the right thing, the right way.

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.)

Salary and Other Compensation:

The annual salary for this position is between $137,250 - $218,000 depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate. This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program and stock awards, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.

Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:

1. 401(k) plan and contributions.
2. Long-term/Short-term Disability.
3. Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.