About Cognizant Consulting
Cognizant Consulting is more than Cognizant’s consulting practice—we’re a global community of 5,000+ experts dedicated to helping clients reimagine their business. Blending our deep industry and technology advisory capability, we create innovative business solutions for Fortune 500 clients. And now, we’re looking for our next colleague who’ll join us in shaping the future of business. Could it be you?
About the role
As a Senior Consultant in Global Payments (ISO 20022), you will make an impact by driving analysis, specification, and documentation to support engineering teams delivering solutions for SWIFT MT-to-MX migration, ISO 20022 processing, and integration across payments ecosystems. You will be a valued member of the Capital Markets team and work collaboratively with engineering teams, payment platform stakeholders, and compliance systems.
In this role, you will:
Elicit and document technical and functional requirements for ISO 20022 initiatives, translating CBPR+ guidelines and message definitions into detailed specifications
Perform element-level data mapping between SWIFT MT and ISO 20022 MX messages, defining transformation rules, conditional logic, and exception handling
Conduct technical gap analysis across payment platforms, middleware, and downstream systems to identify required changes and new components
Define system behavior for MT/MX coexistence scenarios including truncation, character conversion, structured mapping, and fallback logic
Support end-to-end delivery through interface specification, testing, defect triage, standards evaluation, and collaboration with screening and monitoring platforms
Work model – Hybrid
We believe hybrid work is the way forward as we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role’s business requirements, this is a hybrid position requiring time in a client or Cognizant office. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance through our various wellbeing programs.
The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. This may change based on the project you’re engaged in, as well as business and client requirements. Rest assured; we will always be clear about role expectations.
What you must have to be considered
8–12+ years of experience as a BSA, Technical Analyst, or Systems Analyst within payments technology or financial messaging
Expert knowledge of SWIFT MT messages (MT103, MT202, MT202COV, MT199, MT900/910, MT950) and ISO 20022 schemas (pacs, camt, pain) including CBPR+ guidelines
Strong experience with ISO 20022 data mapping, including transformation logic, conditional rules, and exception handling
Proficiency with XML/XSD, XPath, and XSLT for message interpretation and transformation specification
Experience defining integration logic for payment middleware and platforms (e.g., Volante, Bottomline, Axway, IBM MQ, Kafka, SWIFT Alliance)
Strong SQL skills for data analysis, validation, and requirement verification
Experience designing APIs, message queues, and file-based integrations within a payments ecosystem
Familiarity with SWIFT infrastructure (FIN, FINplus, InterAct, FileAct) and correspondent banking models
These will help you succeed
Experience working with sanctions screening and transaction monitoring platforms from an integration perspective
Knowledge of regulatory frameworks including travel rule (31 CFR 1010.410), FATF Recommendation 16, and OFAC screening requirements
Experience modeling end-to-end payment flows using sequence diagrams, data flow diagrams, and state transition diagrams
Ability to support testing, defect triage, and release cycles for SWIFT SR and ISO 20022 initiatives
Strong collaboration skills to work across engineering, compliance, and payment platform teams
We're excited to meet people who share our mission and can make an impact in a variety of ways. Don't hesitate to apply, even if you only meet the minimum requirements listed. Think about your transferable experiences and unique skills that make you stand out as someone who can bring new and exciting things to this role.
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.
Additional employment information
Compensation information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.
Applicants may be required to attend interviews in person or by video conference. In addition, candidates may be required to present their current state or government issued ID during each interview.
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, state or local laws.
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