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Sr. Techno-Functional Consultant

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"Applicants must be currently authorized to work for any employer in the United States. The company is unable to provide employment-based immigration sponsorship for this position."

Cross-Functional Coordination

  • This role requires active cross-functional coordination with business teams to ensure priorities, use case definitions, and acceptance criteria are aligned with the technical delivery roadmap.

Key Responsibilities

  • Translate business requirements into detailed technical specifications and solution designs for OEE, Connected Worker, and Golden Batch use cases
  • Lead and coordinate the integration workstream end-to-end; drive delivery ownership and escalation
  • Act as the primary point of contact for cross-functional stakeholders; facilitate alignment sessions across business, technical, and integration teams
  • Own technical design documents, integration specifications, and data flow diagrams
  • Govern risks/issues, project plan; represent GMSx in steering ceremonies and SAFe ceremonies
  • Drive cross-functional coordination with business teams to align priorities with technical delivery
  • Define technical implementation steps and ensure traceability between business needs and technical deliverables
  • Support UAT planning and coordinate with business stakeholders for validation
  • Provide guidance on best practices for MDF platform utilization within the GMSx program

Required Qualifications & Experience

  • 8+ years of experience in techno-functional roles within manufacturing, pharmaceutical, or life sciences domains
  • Proven track record of leading OT/IT integration projects and converting complex business requirements into technical solutions
  • Deep understanding of OEE calculations, batch processing workflows, and connected worker concepts in a manufacturing context
  • Strong project management skills — ability to plan, prioritize, and drive delivery independently across multiple workstreams
  • Experience guiding Computer System Validation (CSV) for Edge Gateway or similar integration platforms, preferably in GxP environments
  • Familiarity with GxP-regulated environments and relevant regulatory frameworks (FDA 21 CFR Part 11, EU Annex 11)
  • Solid understanding of data management principles (data flows, naming conventions, data governance)
  • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills — ability to align global and local teams with different priorities
  • Experience with MES (e.g., PAS-X), MDF, or similar manufacturing data/execution platforms

Preferred / Nice-to-Have

  • Experience with SAFe Agile methodology in enterprise settings
  • Familiarity with ISA-95 / ISA-88 standards for manufacturing integration
  • Prior experience with large pharma/life sciences organizations

Knowledge of UNS (Unified Namespace) strategy and enterprise data governance frameworks

Translate business requirements into detailed technical specifications and solution designs for OEE, Connected

Worker, and Golden Batch use cases

• Lead and coordinate the integration workstream end-to-end; drive delivery ownership and escalation

• Act as the primary point of contact for cross-functional stakeholders; facilitate alignment sessions across

business, technical, and integration teams

• Own technical design documents, integration specifications, and data flow diagrams

• Govern risks/issues, project plan; represent GMSx in steering ceremonies and SAFe ceremonies

• Drive cross-functional coordination with business teams to align priorities with technical delivery

• Define technical implementation steps and ensure traceability between business needs and technical

deliverables

• Support UAT planning and coordinate with business stakeholders for validation

• Provide guidance on best practices for MDF platform utilization within the GMSx program

Things to know before you apply

  • 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.
  • Accommodations: If you have a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening or submit an application, please email [email protected] with your request and contact information.
  • AI in hiring: We use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to help us screen and assess applications more efficiently. Our team performs additional human review and ultimately decides who moves forward in our hiring process.
  • Open position: Unless otherwise stated, this job posting is for an open position on our team.
  • Language proficiency: We ask that all candidates have basic English proficiency for company-wide communications purposes. For roles based in Quebec, professional English proficiency is required, as you’ll deliver services to and collaborate with stakeholders outside the province who may not speak French.
  • Inclusion: Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer. Your application and candidacy will not be considered based on race, color, sex, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, provincial or local laws.

About Cognizant
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is an AI Builder and technology services provider, bridging the gap between AI investment and enterprise value by building full-stack AI solutions for our clients. Our deep industry, process and engineering expertise enables us to build an organization’s unique context into technology systems that amplify human potential, drive tangible outcomes and keep global enterprises ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at cognizant.ai or @cognizant.

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