Educational requirements: Bachelor
English requirements: Competent English
Requirements for skilled employment experience for years: 1-3 years
Required residence status: Temporary visa, Permanent resident, Citizen
Accept remote work: unacceptable
A Senior Consultant grade Digital Technology Consultant is responsible for:
Participating and facilitating workshops to understand the client problem and define the scope. Investigating and analysing the current technology and operational capabilities of the business and the contemporary technology options available Designing and managing the requirements gathering lifecycle (including elicitation, documentation & management of approval). Guiding the translation of requirements into enterprise architectures, digital architectures and platform architectures by collaborating extensively with data, cloud or technology application engineers, customer experience strategists and business analysts Bringing contemporary technology insights to help our teams develop digital product roadmaps or technology migration plans Communicating with key client stakeholders and Cognizant leaders with strong written and oral skills focusing on scope, requirements, actions and follow-up activities. Producing succinct presentation documents, conceptual architectures or high-quality user stories. Supporting Consulting managers at any stage of the engagement lifecycle (this may include review/creation of requirements / support documentation, cost estimates, follow-up action trackers etc). Required skills / experience:
The life of a digital consultant involves exciting, fast-paced work, dealing with a variety of stakeholders, clients and consultants. You need to be someone that can deal with ambiguity, thrive on change, and manage your own time effectively. We want someone that genuinely focuses on client outcomes, with a high degree of integrity. At Cognizant we value consultants that have a high IQ, enjoy problem solving, a willingness to serve, and have little ego. You will need to be confident presenting to both business and technology stakeholders, being part of cross functional geographically dispersed teams, and have strong negotiating for outcomes skills. Above all, you should have a positive attitude, and enjoy working with consultants from a diverse range of backgrounds, on a variety of fast paced engagements.
Your past experience needs to include:
A minimum of 4-10 years’ experience as a Technical Business Analyst OR Technology Strategist or Technology analyst including a role in internal or external consulting Experience in technology architecture with a focus on forward looking technology visions Experience in working with a variety of digital and cloud-based technologies, microservices / APIs and familiarity with agile development, DevOps and digital product management A track record of being part of teams who have delivered new value to your organization or your clients through digital transformation and where you have learned and improved how you deliver next time round. Experience in structuring workshops to land at decisions, and where you have created artefacts that help focus a group on addressing a problem. Experience with online facilitation tools (e.g. Miro, Mural) would be beneficial. Strong storytelling and presentation skills, including preparing succinct documents, prototypes or artefacts to aid communication and managerial decisions. The following experience would be considered favourably (and we will facilitate you to extend this experience as part of your role):