What makes Cognizant a unique place to work? The combination of rapid growth and an international and innovative environment! This is creating many opportunities for people like YOU — people with an entrepreneurial spirit who want to make a difference in this world.
At Cognizant, together with your colleagues from all around the world, you will collaborate on creating solutions for the world's leading companies and help them become more flexible, more innovative, and successful. Moreover, this is your chance to be part of the success story.
Position Summary
A Senior Business Analyst with a focus on sector is a critical role within Cognizant Consulting. You will predominately work within a squad of cross functional consultants (for example, Digital Strategists, Digital Architects, Agile Coaches) and provide the industry and client business perspective on the challenge that we are solving for our client.
Cognizant’s purpose is to engineer modern businesses to improve everyday life. In the context of consulting that means you will be:
- Helping a client find and create new value for their customers, their business and our society through technology
- Helping a client understand what a modern business means in their context and how to manage the transition to it
- Facilitating the future design, orchestrating how Cognizant and its partners deliver that outcome and helping the client get value from it
Typically, you will work on engagements that last between 8 weeks and months where you will be analysing a business, its people, their customers to define and solve complex business problems by shaping a strategy, designing a digital solution or architecting the implementation. You will work through all those stages in the transformation lifecycle.
Mandatory Skills
- Business Analysis skills with Experience in Insurance Domain (P&C) + IT background
- Ability to gather, analyze and document business and system requirements
- Experience in creating requirements artifacts like BRD, FSD, use cases and user stories
- Extensive experience in Agile and Waterfall
- Knowledge of project effort estimation based on requirements
- Ability to collaborate with business users to assess the complexity and elicit effort estimation.
- Demonstrated Business Analysis skills - working on projects in Insurance domain.
- Design thinking and ability to work in fast paced and ambiguous situations
- Strong Communication & Presentation Skills with a flair for writing documents & ability to present to various audiences.
- Insurance domain knowledge
- Experience working in digital initiatives of Insurance companies (Life)
- Exposure to digital initiatives undertaken by insurers in improving customer experience, customer insights, channel performance improvement, defining digital KPIs, digital innovations in redefining insurance processes and selling
- Exposure to insurance digital insurance platforms preferred
- Strong understanding of technology trends like Portal, Cloud, Analytics, Data, IPA/RPA, AI/ML, and their applications in the Insurance Industry
- Demonstration of Thought Leadership in a particular area of insurance domain
- Ability to contribute and lead creation of domain led consulting offerings
- Experience with insurance platforms such as Guidewire, Duckcreek, OIPA and others
Roles And Responsibilities
- Participating and facilitating workshops to understand the client problem and define the scope.
- Investigating and analysing the business value drivers, customer needs and current technology and operational capabilities of the business
- Designing and managing the requirements gathering lifecycle (including elicitation, documentation & management of approval).
- Guiding the translation of requirements into solution designs, collaborating extensive with the digital squad (strategists, designers, and digital architects).
- Helping to prioritise work for a project squad (fully Cognizant or a mix of Cognizant and client) to optimise the value to the client from their investment
- Communicating with key client stakeholders and Cognizant leaders with strong written and oral skills focusing on scope, requirements, actions and follow-up activities.
- Producing succinct presentation documents, insightful process maps or high-quality user stories.
- Supporting Consulting managers at any stage of the engagement lifecycle (this may include review/creation of requirements / support documentation, cost estimates, follow-up action trackers etc).
Qualifications & Certifications (Optional)
- Master’s in Business Administration or equivalent is good to have
- Preferable tertiary qualification in IT and insurance
- Insurance industry certification will be an added advantage
- Exposure to InsurTech, digital insurance platforms preferred
Salary Range: >$100,000
Date of Posting: 27/05/2025
Next Steps: If you feel this opportunity suits you, or Cognizant is the type of organization you would like to join, we want to have a conversation with you! Please apply directly with us.
For a complete list of open opportunities with Cognizant, visit http://www.cognizant.com/careers. Cognizant is committed to providing Equal Employment Opportunities. Successful candidates will be required to undergo a background check.
A comunidade Cognizant:
Somos uma equipe de alto calibre que aprecia e apoia uns aos outros. Nosso pessoal defende um local de trabalho enérgico, colaborativo e inclusivo, onde todos possam prosperar.
- A Cognizant é uma comunidade global com mais de 300,000 funcionários em todo o mundo.
- Não sonhamos apenas com um caminho melhor – nós fazemos acontecer.
- Cuidamos de nossas pessoas, clientes, empresa, comunidades e clima fazendo o que é certo.
- Promovemos um ambiente inovador onde você pode construir o plano de carreira certo para você.
Quem somos:
A Cognizant é uma das principais empresas de serviços profissionais do mundo, transformando os modelos de negócios, operação e tecnologia dos clientes para a era digital. Nossa abordagem consultiva exclusiva baseada no setor ajuda os clientes a visualizar, construir e administrar negócios mais inovadores e eficientes. Com sede nos EUA, a Cognizant (membro do NASDAQ-100 e uma das Melhores Empregadoras do Mundo da Forbes 2024) é consistentemente listada entre as empresas mais admiradas do mundo. Saiba como a Cognizant ajuda os clientes a liderar com o digital em nosso site.
A Cognizant é uma empregadora que investe em equidade. Sua candidatura não será pautada em raça, cor, gênero, sexualidade, credo, origem, deficiência, gravidez ou qualquer outra característica protegida pelas leis brasileiras.
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Disclaimer:
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Embora nosso sistema permita a candidatura em todos os idiomas, o(s) idioma(s) e o(s) nível(is) de proficiência exigidos para o trabalho variam. No entanto, é necessário um nível básico de inglês para fins de comunicação em toda a empresa.