Data Governance Consultant

Company: Cognizant
Location: Bentonville
Posted on: September 3, 2024

Job Description:

Senior Consultant, Cognizant Consulting

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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 .

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 Retail and Consumer Consulting Practice is looking for a Data Governance Consultant to join our journey.

We're looking for Senior Consultants who can deliver within Cognizant's Five Pillars of Consulting Excellence: 1) Project Execution, 2) Expertise, 3) Business Development, 4) Practice Development, & 5) People Development. As a Senior Consultant, this means partnering with clients and project stakeholders, colleagues to clarify requirements and support delivery of effective solutions; applying technical and domain expertise to solve core client business challenges or inefficiencies; developing and strengthening domain knowledge and maintaining an accurate understanding of Cognizant's industry propositions and consulting capabilities; supporting business development activities of senior leaders; contributing to the development of practice initiatives or new service offerings (e.g., Strategic Control Points, development of consulting assets); and being an inspiring colleague, promoting team motivation, partnership, and ownership for projects. 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

Based on experience, support or own and manage one or more project workstream(s), including deliverables, while adhering to budget, timelines, and client engagement guidelines;

Partner with clients and project stakeholders and apply technical and domain expertise to solve core client business challenges or inefficiencies; this may include leading and managing small solutioning teams to accomplish the above

Elevate the Cognizant brand from mere solution vendor to business-focused transformation partner, based on earning the trust and confidence of clients;

Ensure accurate understanding of a client's business challenges and their optimum alignment to engagements delivering Cognizant solutions;

Capitalize on successful project outcomes in pursuit of further client business partnering and involvement with the client's development of strategic digital transformation roadmaps;

Collaborate with and influence Cognizant project resources (e.g., service lines, SBUs, on/offshore delivery teams) and Partners on behalf of project goals, often-changing client needs, and ultimately client delight;

Leverage specific engagement solutions as marketable Cognizant solution offerings;

Develop practice capabilities and brand recognition by exercising thought leadership, establishing a consultative presence within Cognizant and the wider consulting community, and participating in professional organizations;

Participate in PeopleCare activities; Mentor and support less experienced Consultants for the benefit of the practice.

Qualifications

• 5 + years working in technology, consulting, professional services, or solution development within the targeted industry
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant business or technical discipline; work-in-progress on a Masters or MBA
• Broad understanding of core business processes, technology challenges, and technical/business solutions associated with an industry
• Certifications in Agile and SAFe (e.g., SAFe Product Owner, Product Manager, Scrum Master Qualifications
  • Implement data management standards, policies, and processes enhancing the quality and completeness of the organization's data under the guidance of the Data Governance Program Manager.
  • Work with the enterprise architecture team to create architecture, support design, implementation, and delivery of enterprise Data Governance solutions, ranging from various initiatives - Data Governance, Data model, Data integration/movement, Data Catalogue, Data Quality to name a few
  • Collaborate with relevant teams such as InfoSec, Enterprise Architecture, Analytics Transformation, and Internal Audit and promote key data governance deliverables/assets, including data policies, data standards and data management roles and decision frameworks
  • Leverage tools to catalog data; metadata, data classifications, data lineage, and data mapping to ensure this valuable information is properly stored and consumable to meet business data and compliance needs. The incumbent will be considered the IT product owner for data cataloging and workflow tool sets - current and future.
  • This role will function as the primary IT Data Steward, working directly with the Data Governance Program Manager and associated sub-committees in support of established policies and procedures for data quality with initial emphasis on master and certified data sets and analytics repositories.
  • Work collaboratively with the Data Governance Program Manager and team in the data management, governance, and data quality of master and certified datasets along with analytical repositories. This includes processes which support the definition of data, ensure the quality of data, and the cataloging of this information into toolset(s) which meets stated business rules and requirements.
  • Ensure quality of master data in key systems, as well as, development and documentation of processes with other functional data owners through Data Governance led initiatives.
  • Collaborate with subject matter experts and data stewards to define and implement data strategy, policies, controls, and programs to ensure the enterprise data is accurate, complete, secure, and reliable.
  • Attend Data Governance sponsored meetings for Data Stewards and with other committees as deemed necessary
  • Understand complex business processes and relationships to determine downstream impacts to data and applications
  • Understand existing source system data models as well as the analytical repositories and data sets that serve as the integration target for these sources.
  • Identify areas for data quality improvements in collaboration with other data subject matter experts. Provide requirements to the Enterprise Architecture team, Analytics Transformation team, and data teams for any processes that need to be added or modified in existing data quality checking routines.
  • Collaborate with business partners to identify, understand, and document functional and non-functional requirements resulting in new data cataloging, definition and mapping.
  • Work within and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support data cataloging solutions leveraging existing and future tool sets.
  • Document and support deployment activities.
  • Report on status of the toolset(s) and products which support the described data processes on a regular and timely basis.
  • Excellent client facing and team player skills, excellent written and verbal communication skills 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 $110,000 - $130,000 depending on the experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.
    
    This position is also eligible for Cognizant's discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant's applicable plans.
    
    Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:
    • Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance . click apply for full job details

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