Sr. Business Analyst

Sr. Business Analyst
Location: Miami, FL and/or Cincinnati, OH
Hybrid: 3 days/week in the office

COGNIZANT CONSULTING

Cognizant Consulting is the global consulting organization of Cognizant, 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!

POSITION SUMMARY

The Senior Busines Analyst is focused on supporting delivery in a complex squad or project environment by clarifying requirements, removing obstacles and facilitating workflow and helps ensure the promised outcomes are delivered. They are a blend of business analyst, scrum master, project manager, document writer and cat herder. They are not just an old school business analyst that simply acts as a middleman creating large requirements documents. They are also not purely a hands-off scrum master that only facilitates decisions but has no skin in the game. Likewise, they are not just a single dimensioned project manager focused only on go-live and not value delivery afterwards. They are pragmatic leaders that understand the business strategy and our strategic intent and help ensure the squad can deliver the maximum business value possible. They are great communicators and work as bridges between the product owner, project managerss, stakeholders and the squad. They facilitate the squad planning and retrospectives to ensure the squad is delivering reliably and is constantly improving.

MAJOR JOB ACCOUNTABILITIES

* Work in hybrid model
* Work with product owner and squad/project to groom and prepare the backlog into stories ready to be worked on
* Facilitate squad/project planning at an enterprise level
* Ensure squad/project follows the Atlas system of work
* Works closely with the portfolio team to support planning and updates
* Facilitates communication between all key squad stakeholders including dealing with challenging stakeholders in politicized environments
* Facilitates and champions squad/project delivery rituals (e.g. scrum ceremonies, etc)
* Champions a self-managing team culture
* Facilitates workshops for clarifying problems, identifying solutions and driving aligned decision making in complex enterprise contexts and with challenging stakeholders
* Ensures decisions and key milestones are well documented
* Ensures squad/project artifacts are effective and well organized
* Documents process maps and value streams at a cross functional and enterprise level
* Able to research topics and produce white papers or decision papers to support decisions for complex enterprise problems
* Supports squad in developing and maintaining suitable delivery metrics
* Support Application Development Chapter Lead in implementing an engineering culture
* Support Portfolio Senior Director in implementing an adaptive human centric system of work

QUALIFICATIONS

* Degree or equivalent experience
* 5+ years of experience as a business analyst, project manager, scrum master or product manager
* 3+ years experience in an agile delivery culture
* Experience with ERPs or Enterprise Platforms as a product is a plus
* 1+ years experience delivering applications within an automated CI/CD SDLC
* Airline or logistics experience an advantage but not essential"

SKILLS

* Experienced influencer and storyteller with excellent Oral/Written communication skills
* Highly skilled Workshop facilitation in highly complex and political enterprise level environments
* Flexibility to adapt to a fast-paced work environment
* Critical thinking skills
* Self-motivated
* Team player
* Able to build a high performing team culture
* Able to support the implementation of an adaptive human centric system of work

WORK AUTHORIZATION

Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship (US Citizenship, H-1B, L-1B, L-1A, etc.)

SALARY AND OTHER COMPENSATION

The annual salary for this position is between $64,350 - $86,500 depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate. This position is also eligible for Cognizant's discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant's applicable plans.

BENEFITS

Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:
* Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
* Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
* 401(k) plan and contributions
* Long-term/Short-term Disability
* Paid Parental Leave
* Employee Stock Purchase Plan

DISCLAIMER

The salary, other compensation, and benefits 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.