Director - Business Architecture, Life & Annuity
3 days ago
**DIRECTOR, CONSULTING - Business Architecture, Life & Annuity Insurance**
**Insurance Consulting**
**Remote**
**ABOUT US**
**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**
To be successful, we’re looking for Consultants who exemplify Cognizant’s Five Pillars of Consulting: 1) Project Execution, 2) Expertise, 3) Business Development, 4) Practice Development, & 5) People Development. At the Director Level, this means driving cost effective end-to-end execution of consultant engagements, cultivating practice innovations, achieving financial targets (utilization, expenditures, revenue, margin), promoting Cognizant Consulting’s vision & mission, and building high performing teams across the organization. In addition to enabling consulting excellence through the Five Pillars of Consulting, the specific requirements for this position are below.
**Responsibilities**:
- Lead client and Cognizant teams through insurance product, policy, and process transformation engagements
- Manage client business and technology stakeholders and guide them through transformation and change management.
- Responsible for ensuring the internal and dependencies are met on the given date, queries to client and external teams are clarified within the prescribed time window.
- Define the program governance structure, communication model, and cadence.
- Responsible for overall program deliveries, risk & dependencies
- Ability to understand the business issues and data challenges of the customer and collaborate with the team to build and present solutions
- Lead meetings with stakeholders to determine priorities and critical path items necessary to achieve defined objectives according to plan.
- Ability to provide expert guidance in the understanding of the insurance product and business needs of the customer
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to generate and deliver informative and well-organized presentations
- Ability to collaborate with a cross-geo business and technical team when nonstandard requirements / customization requests are identified to provide alternative business solutions and work arounds to meet the client’s needs
- Ability to assist with program management activities such as Identification of project risks and collaborate with the team to implement mitigation plans that follow through to risk closure
- Collaborate with team members (business, technical, quality) to ensure clarity and understanding of the business requirements, success criteria and outcomes desired by the client.
**Qualifications**:
- 15+ years of experience as a Business Architect with strong Insurance, L&A domain background.
- Should have working knowledge and experience with COLI/BOLI and performing business architecture role with L&A clients
- Experience in managing and prioritizing a product backlog from inception through implementation go live to include full program dependency planning to ensure cohesive delivery across the program lifecycle (Items such as integrations, client led deliverables, etc.)
- Engage in key account expansion, sales leadership, and internal executive stakeholder partnering based upon an expert understanding of such things as emerging market trends, client business direction, client requirements, evolving regulatory contexts and the feasibility of transformation goals.
- A successful track record of developing relationships and selling, managing forecasts, and driving an organization of professional consultants in winning business and achieving targets.
- Experience in building results-oriented, high-performing consulting teams or organizations recognized for excellence.
- Should own the end-to-end strategy and roadmap for your assigned Agile team, and ensure alignment between roadmap and product-level Objectives and Key Results.
- Should have consulting skills, including effective communication, expectation management, and results delivery.
- Deep knowledge of
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Teaneck, United States Cognizant Full timeDIRECTOR, CONSULTING â Business Architecture, Life & Annuity Insurance Insurance Consulting Remote ABOUT US Cognizant is one of the worldâs leading professional services companies, transforming clientsâ business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision,...
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