Senior Manager Consulting, Cognizant Consulting
Payments & Financial Services
Canada
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
Our payments group is looking for a Senior Manager, Consulting to join our journey. We’re looking for someone who is a techno-functional solutions architect. As a member of our team, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and implementing software solutions to address complex business problems within Payments platforms.
We’re looking for Senior Consulting Managers 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. At the Senior Manager / Associate Director Level, 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.
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
- Responsible for designing, developing, and implementing software solutions to address complex business problems in scope of Payments platform.
- Design and execute on key project architectural decisions that define the future technology vision.
- Define technical roadmaps that align the product deliverables.
- Work closely with Product, Enterprise Architecture, and Engineering teams while designing and building solutions.
- Conduct architecture evaluations and trade-off analyses documenting architecture stakeholders and their concerns, with in-depth reviews of costs and benefits, risks and implications.
- Analyses impact relevant to Payments Canada regulatory requirements and payment industry changes related to SWIFT, LVTS, and ACSS/USBE.
- Exercise leadership in the development of Consulting service offerings.
- Leverage collegial networks across Cognizant (e.g., sales, service line community, offshore delivery) and externs partners to innovate solutioning or resolve issues.
- Support and contribute to the establishment of thought leadership in the industry, to promote Cognizant’s brand and to drive additional opportunities for Cognizant.
Qualifications
- 10 + years of consulting, professional services, digital strategy development, advisory, or transformation programs operating in a client-facing capacity serving and leading external client engagements
- A proven track record in a client-facing role with at least 2 of which (though ideally more) are leading digital technology team
- Minimum of 8 years of experience in software architecture, with at least 5 years in the payments domain.
- Proven expertise in designing and building solutions, including architecture evaluations and trade-off analyses.
- Excellent in depth knowledge of various Canadian regulatory requirements and payment industry requirements (SWIFT, LVTS, ACSS/USBE)
- Works with Cognizant account stakeholders (e.g., CPs, CRMs), technology partners (e.g., Amazon) and other business allies to identify consulting opportunities or develop winning proposals
- Ensure technology solutions are aligned with the standards and guidelines issued by Enterprise Architecture, Payments Canada, and other regulatory bodies.
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant business or technical discipline; MBA or Master’s or advanced business degree preferred
- Travel Required: Yes – 15%
- Onsite Requirements: Remote within Canada
- 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.
Working Arrangements
We believe hybrid work is the way forward as we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role’s business requirements, this is a hybrid position requiring 3 days a week in a Cognizant office in either Toronto or London, ON. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance though our various wellbeing programs.
Note: The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. This may change based on the project you’re engaged in, as well as business and client requirements. Rest assured; we will always be clear about role expectations.
Work Authorization
Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in Canada without requiring employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.
