Consulting Partner (Senior Director), Technology Consulting

The CompanyCognizant (NASDAQ:CTSH) is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, dedicated to helping the world's leading companies build stronger businesses. Headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey ( ), Cognizant has over 340,000 employees as of January 2025. Cognizant is a member of the NASDAQ-100, the S&P 500, the Forbes Global 1000, and the Fortune 500 and is ranked among the top performing and fastest growing companies in the world.Role Outline:Cognizant Technology Consulting is changing the game in Data, Cloud and Generative AI based consultancy services. Tech Consulting is almost like a boutique consultancy inside of Cognizant that creates change in how technology is used and fosters an innovative engineering culture. We strategically drive modern engineering practices and ways of working, along with helping clients in all aspects of enterprise technology solution modernization including AI, Cloud, DevOps, Data and more. As the Senior Director, this means overseeing advisory consulting engagements, being a trusted advisor to clients, establishing oneself as a thought leader in your field, solving complex problems, consultatively working with a client to achieve business goals, driving contributions to offerings and innovations, and serving as a people leader, guiding multiple teams as they work to transform a client and the world. In addition to enabling consulting excellence through the Five Pillars of Consulting, the specific requirements for this position are below.Key Responsibilities:

• Develop data strategies for clients that are tied to business objectives and outcomes
• Develop architectural strategies for data modeling, design and implementation to meet stated requirements for metadata management, operational data stores and ETL, Data-BI, AI/ML, GenAI landscapes with a strong focus on cloud environments
• Review existing data architectures to determine overall effectiveness and develop comprehensive strategies for improving or replacing underperforming areas
• Manage end-to-end responsibilities for consulting engagements in areas of control
• Ensures the business viability of complex solutions for Cognizant in key accounts
• Continuously assesses the business for profitability and initiates remedial interventions where needed
• Formalizes best-in-class practices, pursues the development of consulting thought leadership, and participates in industry forums and conferences to establish and enhance Cognizant’s brand
• Exercises financial accountability and responsibility for revenues and margin growth in practice area of control
• Ensures appropriate pricing for consultants across engagements and promotes the education of project teams on consultative value
• Establishes and nurtures relationships with client executives in assigned accounts and serves as their trusted advisor
• Builds or facilitates the route to market of innovative practice solutions
• Actively builds the consulting practice community by driving consensus about and standardization on best practices; and
• Manages and mentors a team of direct reports and the overarching recruitment, onboarding, development, and engagement of consultants.
• Demonstrate knowledge of cloud architecture and implementation features (OS, multi-tenancy, virtualization, orchestration, elastic scalability)
• Demonstrate knowledge of DevOps tool chains and processes
• Assess our client current state and design new processes and approaches in order to close tool and process gaps in order to guide our clients toward a more effective digital future with data
• Lead client presentations and conversations during both the sales and implementation cycles
• Research new technologies, data modeling methods and information management systems to determine which ones should be incorporated into client data architectures, and develop implementation timelines and milestones
• Be the principal advisor to key account initiatives and oversight on select client programs.
• Deliver outstanding client results through the oversight of client teams to implement recommendations
• Draw conclusions from the market / industry trends, client issues and support go to market initiatives for Cognizant
• Contribute to the practice through meeting sales targets

Experience Required:

• Strong experience communicating with both C-level business stakeholders including conducting tactical stakeholder interviews, gathering and evaluating business requirements, conducting gap analyses and devising plans of action that are clear and comprehensive to specialists, business stakeholders and C-level representatives alike.
• Demonstrated depth of experience in Banking & Financial Services domain
• Expert anticipating po...