Senior Consultant

**The Cognizant Difference - Helping our Clients Win In Digital**

At Cognizant Consulting, our consultants orchestrate the capabilities to truly change the game-across strategy, design, technology and industry/functional knowledge. Our strategy is built around elevating business and industry understanding of the aspirations and unique abilities of our clients and by building these relationships based on trust and value.

**Role Responsibilities**:

- Elicit detailed requirements from all impacted business and control teams. Translate the requirement insights as user stories with well-defined acceptance criteria
- Ensure cross functional analysis is carried out while define and grooming phase, by tapping into collective knowledge of BA practice & other technology teams
- Contribute to establishment of design solution by sharing and validating options in context of requirements and roadmap
- Contribute to maintaining repository of features inventory and data maps for the domain space
- Work with design and testing teams to ensure that the requirements and solutions are correctly understood, refined as well as being translated into equivalent deliverables at each stage of execution
- Facilitate discussion of concepts with variety of stakeholders in order to establish use cases. Assist with establishing MVP based on priorities and cost involved
- Establish L0 sizing and Tshirt sizing by connecting needs, requirements with solution options and dependency factors
- Contribute to driving high quality of systems design and adherence to global architecture principles
- Be-come a superior Subject Matter Expert in specializing domains and cultivate wider insights and hands-on delivery capabilities for others
- Contribute to establishment of design solution by sharing and validating options in context of requirements and MVP
- Prepare FSD and ensuring documentation provided meets required bank's documentation standards.
- Provide insights to UTT team regarding priority, criticality of features to test for a product as well as review the test strategy and scripts
- Provide function validation support during UAT phases to ensure that requirement exit criteria are met correctly
- Engage in innovative problem-solving activities, requiring conceptual thinking creating 'out of the box' solutions with prototypes and pilots.
- Foster an environment of technology excellence and innovation
- Work effectively with remote teams, with a focus on fostering positive working relationships
- Ensure responsible deliverables are created by adding thoroughness, accuracy and reliability in the mix

**Job Requirement**:
**Technical Skills and Experience**:

- Good functional knowledge of cards to design and develop effective / efficient solutions in meeting business requirements
- Experience with large scale Cards migration on Cardlink will be advantageous
- Proven experience to project manage a team of developers and vendors in ensuring timely delivery of system enhancement of varying scales
- Good working knowledge skills with Microsoft Office Products, Microsoft Visio, and Microsoft Project.
- Concise understanding of the system development life cycle
- Effective people leader with good interpersonal skills.
- Excellent communication skills
- Strong problem solving skills
- Ability to multi-task and perform well under pressure

**Competencies**:

- Thorough knowledge of Credit Cards domain.
- Past roles as a Senior Business Analyst with demonstrable experience having led solution delivery in an Agile delivery environment
- Experience having worked as a business analyst and provided solutions design in the Cards/Vision Plus space - across multiple functions like Cards Management, Transaction Management, Disputes, Authorization, Loans, EPP, rewards, Loyalty etc.
- Past experience having executed projects requiring cross functional analysis across business lines and technology teams
- A strong understanding of the cards & payments industry fundamentals and ongoing payment industry trends
- Ability to work with remote teams across geographies and organization lines
- Strong team player able to motivate team to respond to multiple demands and able to manage changing priorities and meet challenging timelines
- Collaborative and adaptive, with good communication skills.
- Prior experience working in a large Agile teams using scrum methodology is a must
- Ability to own delivery responsibilities end to end and be accountable for driving results for the team
- Ability to formulate processes and procedures and quickly put them in to practice
- Strong interpersonal and articulation skills (spoken and written)
- Strong team orientation and commitment to overall team success; willing to go above and beyond to ensure team success; intense customer focus and commitment to driving quality
- Effective time management skills in order to manage multiple priorities with flexibility on time zones and timelines Logical thinking, High analytical and problem s